Not on the Map

Michael J. Seth

doi:10.5771/9781793632531

Summary

This book analyzes how de facto states—including Nagorno Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Kosovo, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Somaliland, and Taiwan—have developed without recognition of sovereignty from the international community.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3252-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3253-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 240
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
1. Introduction: “I Can’t Find It on My Map!” No access
2. A World of States No access
3. What’s a Country? No access
4. It Takes One to Know One No access
5. Modern States Are Modern No access
6. Recognizing Each other and Getting Along: The State System No access
7. Triumph of the Nation-State No access
8. It Is So Hard to Become a State No access
9. Defining de Facto States No access
10. Our Nine de Facto States No access
11. Notes No access
1. Introduction to Artsakh No access
2. Mountain of Languages: The Caucasus Region No access
3. Just Say Hi! Who Are the Armenians? No access
4. The Armenian Genocide No access
5. Historical Karabakh No access
6. Background to the Conflict No access
7. Karabakh under Soviet Rule No access
8. Who Are the Azeris? No access
9. “We Were Here First”: History Wars and Identities No access
10. The Karabakh War No access
11. Independent Nagorno Karabakh No access
12. An Unresolved Conflict No access
13. Nagorno Karabakh and Ethnic Cleansing No access
14. Is Karabakh a Country? No access
15. Will Nagorno Karabakh Ever Be Recognized? No access
16. Notes No access
1. Abkhazia No access
2. Mountains and the Sea No access
3. More Consonants than People: Who are the Abkhaz? No access
4. Historical Background No access
5. Wild Swings in Ethnic Populations No access
6. Abkhazia in the Soviet Era No access
7. Breakaway State 1990–2008 No access
8. We Were Here First: More History Wars No access
9. The 2008 War and its Aftermath No access
10. De Facto State No access
11. Is Abkhazia a Real Country? No access
12. Viability as a State No access
13. Prospects for Recognition No access
14. South Ossetia No access
15. Geography No access
16. History No access
17. Conflict No access
18. Since Independence No access
19. South Ossetia as a de Facto State No access
20. Notes No access
1. Historical Background No access
2. Becoming Moldovan No access
3. Transnistria Becomes More Russian No access
4. The End of the Soviet Union and the Birth of Moldova and Transnistria No access
5. The Transnistrian Conflict No access
6. Transnistria Today No access
7. Russia as Patron No access
8. A Shady Reputation No access
9. Transnistria—How Viable? No access
10. Notes No access
1. Albanians and Serbs No access
2. Long Histories and Long Memories No access
3. Kosovo in the Twentieth Century No access
4. An Unhappy Member of Yugoslavia No access
5. The End of Yugoslavia and the Resurgence of Serbian and Kosovar Nationalism No access
6. Violent Birth of the Kosovo State No access
7. Kosovo Becomes Independent No access
8. Two Contrasting Heroes No access
9. Kosovo, the De Facto State No access
10. The Serbian Minority No access
11. How Long Before de Facto Becomes de Jure? No access
12. Notes No access
1. Divided Island No access
2. The Island of Copper No access
3. Toward Independence No access
4. Power Sharing Fails No access
5. The Turks Invade No access
6. Birth of the TRNC No access
7. Northern Cyprus as an Independent State No access
8. Turkish Puppet State? No access
9. Divided Countries No access
10. The Uncertain Status of the TRNC No access
11. Notes No access
1. Western Sahara before the Spanish Arrived No access
2. Berbers and Arabs No access
3. Arrival of the Spanish No access
4. Instant but Intense: The Origins of Sahrawi Nationalism No access
5. The Spanish Exit and the Moroccans Enter No access
6. Why Was Morocco so Determined tO Rule Western Sahara? No access
7. Algeria’s Support for Polisario No access
8. The Tented State No access
9. Western Sahara Mostly under Moroccan Rule No access
10. How De Facto is the SADR? No access
11. Notes No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Somalia and Somaliland and Somalis No access
3. A Long but Not Well-Understood History No access
4. The Scramble for Africa and Colonial Somalia No access
5. The Shortest-Lived State: Independence No access
6. The Birth of a Nation No access
7. Somaliland since Independence No access
8. Somaliland the De Facto State No access
9. More Democratic than Its Neighbors No access
10. Drought and Hunger No access
11. Somaliland and the International Community No access
12. Why Is the International Community Not Recognizing Somaliland? No access
13. Somaliland, A Truly de Facto State No access
14. Notes No access
1. Ilha Formosa: The Beautiful Island No access
2. Taiwan: The Wild Frontier Land No access
3. Taiwan Becomes Part of the Japanese Empire No access
4. Taiwan Becomes Part of China Again (But Only Briefly) No access
5. Saved by a Fluke No access
6. The Government-in-Exile State No access
7. The First Taiwan Strait Crisis No access
8. Taiwan Becomes More Isolated No access
9. The Taiwan Miracle No access
10. Democratization and “Taiwanization” No access
11. Coping with Diplomatic Isolation No access
12. Being Taiwanese vs Being Chinese No access
13. Taiwan Stuck in International Limbo No access
14. Notes No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Vatican City: Recognition without State No access
3. Palestine: Limited State with Recognition No access
4. Kurdistan No access
5. The Kurdistan Regional Government No access
6. Rojava: The Other Kurdistan “Near State” No access
7. Luhansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic No access
8. Kachin State No access
9. Other Would-be States No access
10. AZAWAD No access
11. AMBAZONIA AND DAR EL KUTI No access
12. Nagalim No access
13. De Facto States are Rare No access
14. Notes No access
1. Nagorno Karabakh: Can a Country not want to be a Country and Still be One? No access
2. Abkhazia: Can a Minority become a Nation by Expelling a Majority? No access
3. Transnistria: Can a Secessionist State with Fluid Identities Be Viable? No access
4. Kosovo: What Right does a Country have to Deny Recognition of Another? No access
5. TRNC: How Can a Country be Dependent on another and Survive without being Absorbed? No access
6. Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic: More Recognition than Country? No access
7. Somaliland: Just what does a Country have to do to Be Recognized? No access
8. Taiwan—Can a Country Be a Country If It Insists It Is Not? No access
9. Is De Facto State a Meaningful Category? No access
Bibliography No access Pages 225 - 232
Index No access Pages 233 - 238
About the Author No access Pages 239 - 240