Perennially Perishable? Development Trends in the Set of De Facto States

Perennially Perishable? Development Trends in the Set of De Facto States

Unrecognised states

sovereignty

security and political indicators

quantitative analysis

indicator of internal sovereignty

partial international recognition

pupet states

De facto states have moved from a periphery to the center of academicattention during the last two decades. The objective of the paper is anidentification of characteristic development trends within a set of thesenon-state territorial political units, and it investigates the relation betweenthe degree of their internal sovereignty and their level of partialinternational recognition. The quantitative method for assessment of thedegree of internal sovereignty is based on a set of seven indicators and anaggregate “indicator of internal sovereignty”. The set of de facto states iscomposed of 26 entities whose development is analyzed from 2001 to 2018.The results confirmed a relationship between the development of worldpolitics and the development trends within the set of de facto states, asignificant influence of partial international recognition on the level ofinternal sovereignty, and a close relation between security and politicalindicators of sovereignty.

Podhrázský, Štěpán

Daněk, Petr

Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 55 No. 3 (2020); 5-30

2788-2993

2788-2985

10.32422/mv.55.3

Institute of International Relations Prague

2020-09-01

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0

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