What Is a Sovereign State?

... first set of these includes the countries that became the product of the collapse of European empires as a result of the First World War. At that time, practically all the... ... actually lost their sovereignty in favour of one of the superpowers — mainly the USSR. The second wave of sovereignty is associated with the collapse of the world colonial... ... regimes as a kind of ideal “guarantee” that the bigger neighbours — Russia or China — could more insistently indicate to their small neighbours their place in the...