The new volume “Armed non-state actors and the politics of recognition” by editors Anna Geis, Maéva Clément, and Hanna Pfeifer discusses armed non-state actors and their strategic pursuit of being recognized as political actors. It includes methodological considerations as well as case studies from China, Ireland, Lebanon, Nigeria and, Sudan among others. The contributions study the strategic choices that state leaders, citizens, international organizations, and others make in granting such recognition, denying it, or recognizing on their own terms.
Author: Maéva Clément
Lecturer in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies at the Institute of Social Sciences, Osnabrück University. Her research interests include international political theory, interdisciplinary emotion research, (armed) non-state-actors in world politics, political violence, and critical terrorism research. Her current research focuses on the interactions between armed non-state actors and diverse publics. | LinkedIn
