This article offers a critical outlook on existing debates on state recognition and proposes future research directions. It argues that existing knowledge on state recognition and the dominant discourses, norms and practices needs to be problematized and freed from power-driven, conservative, positivist and legal interpretations and reoriented in new directions in order to generate more critical, contextual and emancipatory knowledge. The article proposes two major areas for future research on state recognition, which should: (a) expose the politics of knowledge, and positionality, and seek epistemic justice and decolonization of state recognition studies; and (b) study more thoroughly recognitionality techniques encompassing diplomatic discourses, performances and entangled agencies. Accordingly, this article seeks to promote a long overdue debate on the need for re-visioning state recognition in world politics.

本文对有关国家承认的现有辩论提出了批判性观点，并提出了未来的研究方向。它认为，关于国家承认和主导话语、规范和实践的现有知识需要问题化，摆脱权力驱动的、保守的、实证主义的和法律解释，并朝着新的方向重新定位，以产生更具批判性、情境性和解放性的知识。文章提出了未来国家承认研究的两个主要领域，它们应该：(a) 揭露知识政治和立场，寻求国家承认研究的认知正义和非殖民化；(b) 更彻底地研究包括外交话语、表演和纠缠机构在内的识别技术。因此，