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 ...
... foundation of its subject, namely the environment in which unrecognised states are assumed to operate and the ... ... unrecognised states is, by extension, a study of small states, thus it is appropriate to operate within ... ... they encompass all of the existing unrecognised and partially recognised states (with the exception of ... ... assumption, intertwined as it is with the discipline of geopolitics and rational thought theory, essentially ... ... ‘The Foreign Policies of Small States : Challenging Neorealism in its own Backyard’ British Journal ...