International recognition, religion, and the status of Western Sahara

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41269-020-00166-4" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41269-020-00166-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41269-020-00166-4" target="_blank" >10.1057/s41269-020-00166-4</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

International recognition, religion, and the status of Western Sahara

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

How do countries decide whether or not to recognize an aspiring state? We examine such decisions in the context of contested recognition, which we define as a claim to statehood that is recognized by a large number of countries, but remains unrecognized by many others. We suggest that religion-both at the domestic level via religious regulation and discrimination against minority religions and at the international level via transnational religious ties-shapes recognition decisions. In cases where the two parties to a recognition dispute share the same dominant religious tradition (as in Western Sahara), transnational religious ties are expected to lead to external support for the side that emphasizes its religious identity and that has access to more resources. Moreover, we show that countries with higher levels of religious regulation are less likely to extend recognition. We assess these two conjectures for why some countries-but not others-have recognized the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as an independent state using data on the recognition decisions of all 192 United Nations member states.

Název v anglickém jazyce

International recognition, religion, and the status of Western Sahara

Popis výsledku anglicky

How do countries decide whether or not to recognize an aspiring state? We examine such decisions in the context of contested recognition, which we define as a claim to statehood that is recognized by a large number of countries, but remains unrecognized by many others. We suggest that religion-both at the domestic level via religious regulation and discrimination against minority religions and at the international level via transnational religious ties-shapes recognition decisions. In cases where the two parties to a recognition dispute share the same dominant religious tradition (as in Western Sahara), transnational religious ties are expected to lead to external support for the side that emphasizes its religious identity and that has access to more resources. Moreover, we show that countries with higher levels of religious regulation are less likely to extend recognition. We assess these two conjectures for why some countries-but not others-have recognized the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as an independent state using data on the recognition decisions of all 192 United Nations member states.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Acta Politica

ISSN

0001-6810

e-ISSN

1741-1416

Svazek periodika

56

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

548-566

Kód UT WoS článku

000535150000001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85085519455