{"id":142,"date":"2024-04-04T05:34:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T02:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/defactostates\/challenges-international-order\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:05:11","slug":"challenges-international-order","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/defactostates\/challenges-international-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges to international order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vits, K., and G\u00f6tz, E. 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/960995\">Great Power Competition in Contested States: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh<\/a>. <em>Asian Perspective,<\/em> Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 275-298.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Berisha, B. and E. Berg 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/13600826.2025.2478035\">Punching Above the Diplomatic Weight: De Facto States\u2019 Civil Society Organisations in International Affairs<\/a>, <em>Global Society<\/em>, 1-26.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Berisha, B. and S. Kursani 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ia\/article-abstract\/101\/1\/213\/7942203?redirectedFrom=PDF\">The Politics of Digital Recognition of States<\/a>, <em>International Affairs<\/em>, Vol. 101, No. 1, pp. 213\u2013231.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Berg, E. and S. Kursani 2023.\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/isagsq\/article\/3\/2\/ksad022\/7127944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/isagsq\/article\/3\/2\/ksad022\/7127944\">Back to the Future: Attempts to Buy, Swap, and Annex Territories in Contemporary Sovereignty Practices<\/a>,\u00a0<em>Global Studies Quarterly<\/em>, Vol.\u00a03, No. 2, pp. 1-12.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kursani, S. 2023.\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14650045.2022.2151903?casa_token=_Z3eevAL4LYAAAAA%3A9W4U47Xsheh4Xx9YV-FGr3OoEhLyc4MTDzTuYW9RS8_e8aNUSoLuLTla1kKans0R52hGxJw3oQN2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14650045.2022.2151903?casa_token=_Z3eevAL4LYAAAAA%3A9W4U47Xsheh4Xx9YV-FGr3OoEhLyc4MTDzTuYW9RS8_e8aNUSoLuLTla1kKans0R52hGxJw3oQN2\">Costs of International Recognition: Palestine\u2019s and Kosovo\u2019s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood<\/a>, <em>Geopolitics<\/em>, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 174\u2013202.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kursani, S. 2022.\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14623528.2022.2099633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14623528.2022.2099633\">Beyond Putin\u2019s Analogies: The Genocide Debate on Ukraine and the Balkan Analogy Worth Noting<\/a>, <em>Journal of Genocide Research<\/em>, Vol. 25, No. 3\u20134, pp. 371\u2013383.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">M\u00f6lder, M. and E. Berg 2023. <\/span><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09668136.2022.2069677\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09668136.2022.2069677\">Conflicts and Shifts in the Kremlin\u2019s Political Discourse since the Start of the Putin Presidency (2000\u20132019)<\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\">. <em>Europe-Asia Studies<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Vol. 75, No. 4, pp. 564-582.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Poghosyan, S. and E. Berg 2021. <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/09592296.2021.1961492?fbclid=IwAR3F8EFhL7H-zHcjbuVchJ1Yz1OEMJ9hsqQGYhddSGmyR7_pvy6JdIOiBLc&amp;journalCode=fdps20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/09592296.2021.1961492?fbclid=IwAR3F8EFhL7H-zHcjbuVchJ1Yz1OEMJ9hsqQGYhddSGmyR7_pvy6JdIOiBLc&amp;journalCode=fdps20\">When There Is a State? The Politics of Recognition and Kosovo.<\/a> <em>Diplomacy and Statecraft<\/em>, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 605-626.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kursani, S. 2021. <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/isr\/advance-article-abstract\/doi\/10.1093\/isr\/viaa073\/5925186?redirectedFrom=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/isr\/advance-article-abstract\/doi\/10.1093\/isr\/viaa073\/5925186?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">Reconsidering the Contested State in Post-1945 International Relations: An Ontological Approach<\/a>,\u00a0<em>International Studies Review<\/em>,\u00a0Vol 23, No. 3, pp. 752-778.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kursani, S. 2020. <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/cadmus.eui.eu\/bitstream\/handle\/1814\/67955\/Kursani_2020_SPS.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cadmus.eui.eu\/bitstream\/handle\/1814\/67955\/Kursani_2020_SPS.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">Contested States: The Struggle for Survival and Recognition in the Post-1945 International Order.<\/a> Doctoral thesis. European University Institute, Florence.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Berg, E. and M. M\u00f6lder 2018. <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/21599165.2018.1497986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/21599165.2018.1497986\">The Politics of Unpredictability? Acc\/Secession of Crimea and the Blurring of International Norms<\/a>, <em>East European Politics<\/em>, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 400-417.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Berg, E., M. Riegl and B. Dobo\u0161 2017. Introduction: Secession and Recognition in the Twenty-first Century, in M. Riegl and B. Dobo\u0161 (ed.) <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/book\/9783319569123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/book\/9783319569123\">Unrecognized States and Secession in the 21st Century<\/a>. Springer International Publishing, pp. 1\u22127.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kursani, S.\u00a02017. <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1057%2Fs41311-017-0061-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1057%2Fs41311-017-0061-9\">Foreign Policy Coordination Vis-\u00e0-Vis the International Norm of Sovereignty: Macedonia\u2019s and Montenegro\u2019s Recognition of Kosovo<\/a>. <em>International Politics<\/em>, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 729\u201344.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pegg, S. 2017. <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordre.com\/politics\/view\/10.1093\/acrefore\/9780190228637.001.0001\/acrefore-9780190228637-e-516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/oxfordre.com\/politics\/view\/10.1093\/acrefore\/9780190228637.001.0001\/acrefore-9780190228637-e-516\">Twenty Years of De Facto State Studies: Progress, Problems, and Prospects<\/a>, in <em>Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics<\/em>. Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Berg, E. and M. M\u00f6lder 2014. <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1057\/jird.2014.2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1057\/jird.2014.2\">When \u2018Blurring\u2019 Becomes the Norm and Secession Is Justified as the Exception. Revisiting EU and Russian Discourses in the Common Neighbourhood<\/a>. <em>Journal of International Relations and Development<\/em>, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 469-488.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Berg, E. and E. Kuusk 2010. <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0962629810000260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0962629810000260\">What Makes Sovereignty a Relative Concept? An Empirical Approach to International Society<\/a>. <em>Political Geography<\/em>, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 40-49.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Berg, E. 2009. <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14650040802693473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14650040802693473\">Re-examining Sovereignty Claims in Changing Territorialities: Reflections from \u2018Kosovo Syndrome<\/a>. <em>Geopolitics<\/em>, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 219-234.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pegg, S. 2004. From De Facto States to States-Within-States: Progress, Problems, and Prospects, in P. Kingston and I. S. Spears, eds., <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1057\/9781403981011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1057\/9781403981011\">States Within States: Incipient Political Entities in the Post-Cold War Era<\/a>. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 35-46.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pegg, S. 1999. <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/01636609909550393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/01636609909550393\">The Non-Proliferation of States: A Reply to Pascal Boniface<\/a>, <em>The Washington Quarterly<\/em>, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 139-147.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pegg, S. 1998. <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/International-Society-and-the-De-Facto-State\/Pegg\/p\/book\/9780367375232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/International-Society-and-the-De-Facto-State\/Pegg\/p\/book\/9780367375232\">International Society and the De Facto State<\/a>. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, reissued by Routledge in 2019.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Vits, K., and G\u00f6tz, E. 2025. Great Power Competition in Contested States: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh. Asian Perspective, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 275-298. Berisha, B. and E. Berg 2025. 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