On December 10, London School of Economics under the auspices of Dahrendorf Forum held an international seminar "Quo Vadis Global actors? US, EU, Russia between Liberal Order and Neorealism".
The seminar was attended by experts in theory of international relations from Great Britain, other European countries and the United States.
Russia was represented by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Sergey Utkin, RIAC expert,...
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 of the two main theories concerning state recognition. Finally this post will outline the thought process behind non-recognition in international law.
As regards the current legal status of statehood there is little...
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