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Over the past 50 years, both theory and practice regarding the struggle for recognition have developed relatively independently of deliberative and agonistic democracy, a related field. Over the last decade, however, these two fields have merged, because courts, legislatures, ministries and rival armies around the world have often turned the reconciliation of struggles for recognition over to various institutions and practices of negotiation and deliberation. The result is the emergence of a new hybrid field called “recognition and dialogue.” This paper is a critical examination of the emergence and the strengths and weakness of this new and important field in politics and law.