This post will examine whether unrecognised states really fit such a title, and why it is that unrecognised states remain unrecognised and thus outside of the international state system. This will involve a brief appraisal of the definition of statehood itself, as well as a review ...
... theoretical foundation of its subject, namely the environment in which unrecognised states are assumed to operate and the structural restraints ... ... The study of unrecognised states is, by extension, a study of small states, thus it is appropriate to operate within the theoretical ... ... 7 This assumption, intertwined as it is with the discipline of geopolitics and rational thought theory, essentially reduces the ... ... Fendius ‘The Foreign Policies of Small States : Challenging Neorealism in its own Backyard’ British Journal of Political ...