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Unrecognized states are places that do not exist in international politics; they are state-like entities that have achieved de facto independence, but have failed to gain widespread international recognition. Since the Cold-War, unrecognized states have been involved in conflicts over sovereign statehood in the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, South Asia, the Horn of Africa, and the South Pacific; some of which elicited major international crises and intervention, including the use of armed force.§Yet they remain subject to many myths and simplifications. Drawing on a number of contemporary and historical cases, from Nagorno Karabakh and Somaliland to Taiwan, this timely new book provides a comprehensive analysis of unrecognized states. It examines their origins, the factors that enable them to survive and explores their likely future trajectories. But it is not just a book about unrecognized states; it is a book about sovereignty and statehood; one which does not shy way from addressing crucial issues such as how these anomalies survive in a system of sovereign states and how the context of non-recognition affects their attempts to build effective state-like entities.§Ideal for students and scholars of global politics, peace and conflict studies, Unrecognized States offers a much needed and engaging account of the development of unrecognized states in the modern international system.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government International relations

• Full title: Unrecognised States - The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Modern International System
• Author: Nina Caspersen
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780745653426
• ISBN: 0745653421
• ID: 01391724
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Weight: 466 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 237 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. November 2011

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