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Frozen conflicts sometimes result in partially recognized states. For example, the Republic of South Ossetia, a product of the frozen Georgian–Ossetian conflict, is recognized by eight other states, including five UN member states; the other three of these entities are partially-recognized states themselves.
Two of the states that were named in the axis of evil are also named by Rice: Iran and North Korea. [13] The Guardian listed the term "outposts of tyranny" with "rogue states," "states of concern," "outlaw states" and "pariah states" as terminology of the "longstanding American policy of setting up international bogeymen." [14]
List of city name changes; List of national border changes (1914–present) – List of changes in national borders between nations since 1914; Lists of political entities by century; Sovereign state – State having the highest authority over a territory List of former sovereign states; List of sovereign states
A UN-mediated ceasefire put a halt to the conflict in January 1949. The UN resolution called for both the countries to demilitarise the region, following which a plebiscite would be held. However, no demilitarisation plan acceptable to both the countries could be agreed. The countries fought two further wars in 1965 and 1971.
In this zone independent countries still survived – Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, China, and Japan. Mahan regarded those countries, located between Britain and Russia, as if between "Scylla and Charybdis". Of the two monsters – Britain and Russia – it was the latter that Mahan considered more threatening to the fate of Central Asia. Mahan ...
United States v. Mexico: Mexico–United States border region: 100+ 1932: 1935: Chaco War Bolivia v. Paraguay: Northern Gran Chaco ~100,000 1938: 1938: Battle of Lake Khasan Soviet Union v. Japan: Manchukuo–Soviet Union border region ~1,300 1939: 1939: Slovak–Hungarian War Slovakia v. Hungary: Eastern Slovakia: 69 1939: 1939: Battles of ...
Ukrainian and Western officials are worried that a Russian military buildup near Ukraine could signal plans by Moscow to invade its ex-Soviet neighbor. The Kremlin insists it has no such intention ...
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...