The dark side of recognition

mutual exclusiveness of passive and active recognition in the middle East conflict

Carolin Goerzig

Claudia Hofmann

pp. 237-247

in: Christopher Daase, Caroline Fehl, Anna Geis, Georgios Kolliarakis (eds), Recognition in international relations, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Abstract

No matter whether recognition is held to produce cooperation or mconflict among these entities, the very move of presupposing them indicates that the concept of recognition may merely reproduce the problem it was heralded to solve. (2013: 157)