College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Becoming an Actor in World Politics: International and Transnational Recognition
Module POL3261 for 2021/2
Module POL3261 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3261: Becoming an Actor in World Politics: International and Transnational Recognition
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- State recognition in international law and politics
- Secessionist movements and unrecognised/contested/de facto states
- Recognition in social and political theory
- Interstate recognition in IR: (mis)recognition or ‘disrespect’ as driver for state behaviour and cause of war
- Interstate recognition in IR: mutual recognition as respect/status between states, case of rising powers
- Recognition of governments: coups d'état, civil wars, decolonisation conflicts, foreign occupation
- Transnational recognition of non-state actors: social movements, civil resistance movements, national liberation movements, rebel movements, parties to civil wars
- (Mis)recognition in identity conflicts
- Recognition in conflict resolution/peacebuilding: ‘thick recognition’ in transformation of intractable conflicts, reconciliation and just peace
- Case studies (term 2) to be determined by class
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 44 | 256 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 44 | 22 x 2-hour seminars |
| Guided independent study | 88 | Reading for seminars |
| Guided independent study | 144 | Completion of coursework |
| Guided independent study | 24 | Preparation of case study presentation |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
- Aggestam, K. and A. Björkdahl (eds.) (2013), Rethinking Peacebuilding: The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans (Oxon/New York: Routledge).
- Brincat, S. (2017) ‘Cosmopolitan Recognition: Three Vignettes, International Theory, 9(1), pp. 1-32.
- Caspersen, N. and G. Stansfield (eds.) (2011) Unrecognized States in the International System (Oxon/New York: Routledge).
- Crawford, J.R. (2006) The Creation of States in International Law (2nd ed.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
- Checkel, J.T. (ed.) (2013) Transnational Dynamics of Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
- Coggins, B.L. (2016) Power Politics and State Formation in the 20th Century: The Dynamics of Recognition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
- Daase, C., C. Fehl, A. Geis and G. Kolliarakis (eds.) (2015) Recognition in International Relations: Rethinking a Political Concept in a Global Context (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
- Geldenhuys, D. (2009) Contested States in World Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
- Gosewinkel, D. and D. Rucht (eds.) (2017) Transnational Struggles for Recognition: New Perspectives on Civil Society since the Twentieth Century (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books).
- Honneth, A. (1995) The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts (Cambridge: Polity).
- Ker-Lindsay, J. (2012) The Foreign Policy of Counter Secession: Preventing the Recognition of Contested States (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
- Lindemann, T. (2010) Causes of War: The Struggle for Recognition (Colchester: ECPR Press).
- Lindemann, T. and E. Ringmar (eds.) (2012) The International Politics of Recognition (Boulder/London: Paradigm).
- McBride, C. (2013) Recognition (Cambridge: Polity).
- O’Neill, S. and N.H. Smith (eds.) (2012) Recognition Theory as Social Research: Investigating the Dynamics of Social Conflict (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
- Pegg, S. (1998) International Society and the de Facto State (Farnham: Ashgate).
- Taylor, C. and A. Gutmann (eds.) (1994) Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
- Visoka, G, J. Doyle and E. Newman (eds.) (2020) Routledge Handbook of State Recognition (Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2020).
