Inserción de los estados de facto como plenos actores estatales de las relaciones internacionales: un estudio de caso sobre la república de Kosovo

The diverse traditionalist conceptions about the legitimate construction of sovereign States encompass a network of problems that have led to the de facto States being rejected as emerging international actors of the International System, relegating them to secondary spaces in which they cannot actively participate in global governance. Therefore, State effectiveness is reduced to demonstrate that the use of force is legitimately expressed through their governmental institutions, despite having in some cases advanced diplomatic relations. Likewise, the limited external sovereignty, manifested as the maximum capacity that States have to be internationally recognized by the International Community, has stripped them of the leading role of influencing as actors on global governance. In this contribution, the implications of the non-recognition of de facto States and the political discretion imposed in the diplomatic practice of such declaration are evaluated. In this sense, the purpose of this study will be to use the case analysis to demonstrate which theoretical-conceptual dimensions, on the insertion of State actors of the International Relations and the constitutive elements of the State, facilitate or prevent the Unilateral Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Kosovo is legally recognized by the constituted States, in order to encourage its insertion as a full State actor.