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Can you have a state without it being a sovereignty?
Nation = group of people that identify with eachother and conceive themselves to be a community based on a common history, etc.
State = political manifestation of this, where there is one government for a population that recognise themselves as belonging to a territory.
Sovereignty = when there is a single supreme decision-making authority.
My question is how can a state exist without being a sovereignty? Is it possible to be legally self-supported, so by definition a state, but not a recognised sovereign state?
2 Answers
- GrowlLv 610 years agoFavourite answer
Of course. Monaco has limited sovereignty. France controls its economic and foreign affairs. The soviet block countries were completely dominated by Russia and the Philippines was controlled by the US.
You should be able to find hundreds of historical examples.
