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- Nation States: From Non-Existent to Status Quo
[Part I]
Last week, I argued that Kosovo did not actually set a legal precedent for other breakaway regions but instead finally officially asked a question that has been asked for decades but never answered, namely, who gets to become a state?
From Non-Existent to Status Quo
Although the idea of a nation-state is taken by most to [...]
- Micronations caught on film
First there was the guidebook and then the travelogue – now you can get a better look at some of these micronations through the magic of film. Check out the sale of Sealand, the nutter president of Molossia, the bird excrement covered Redonda, the Empire of Atlanteum and other Australian micronations at WebUrbanist.
- But What Kind of Multilateralism?
A century ago, nationalism led to the breakup of the imperial world order and World War II dismantled the remaining few empires. Since then, the nation-state system was forced upon much of the world, and more specifically, decolonized parts unready and unable to handle it. Integral to this system was the sovereignty to which [...]
