Scattered in small numbers around the world, unrecognized states are territories that have achieved de facto independence from their parent state, yet have failed to achieve legal recognition from the ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper, we address the question of why in some de facto states something like “dominant party” politics has emerged, whereas in others ...

In a global pandemic, there may be a benefit to be an isolated, unrecognized state. The three de facto breakaway states of the South Caucasus – Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh – all ...

The Russia-Georgia war of August 2008 had repercussions well beyond the South Caucasus. The war was the culmination of Western tensions with Russia over its influence in the post—Soviet space, while ...