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 ... ... specify how many states need recognise an entity in order for its incipient statehood to become valid; this leaves the status of partially recognised states ambiguous.[vii]
This ambiguity is part of a recent trend concerning the contemporary inconsistency ...
... 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 ... ... chosen as they encompass all of the existing unrecognised and partially recognised states (with the exception of Taiwan) but ... ... Fendius ‘The Foreign Policies of Small States : Challenging Neorealism in its own Backyard’ British Journal of Political ...