ABSTRACT
It is rare to find another phenomenon which influences and is influenced by exogenous factors and entanglements than matters concerning diplomatic recognition and membership in international organisations. This chapter explores how Kosovo’s quest for strengthening independent statehood was not only shaped by discursive and performative diplomatic interactions, but also from entanglements with related and unrelated assemblages of events, relations, political processes, and material changes elsewhere in world politics. In global assemblages, there is no central power with sufficient competence to fully determine the outcomes of activities that take place in temporary, discursive, performative, and material assemblages. This chapter demonstrates empirically how Kosovo’s diplomacy of state-becoming was implemented through a situational entanglement of different local and international diplomats and the intermingling effect of domestic and global events, which simultaneously enabled and obstructed the enactment of Kosovo’s independent statehood.
