Abstract
Understanding is better than classification, yet beyond doubt an analysis that also includes an attempt to categorise assists understanding of our present states system. This can be done in a variety of ways on the basis of selected criteria. Criteria are provided by international law, by degrees of political power which reflect a combination of economic, military and diplomatic strength, by types of political structure, by geographical content and character, by systems of government, by national composition of the population and, not least in importance, by the levels of maturity attained. Other categories are indicated by the use of such terms, applied to states, as ‘residual’,’ successor’, ‘neutral’, ‘unaligned’ and ‘buffer’, each of which throws one ray of light on their diversity. It need hardly be added that these various classifications are not mutually exclusive and that each embraces variant forms.
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‘A nation’, said Kossuth (in 1848), ‘must have its own Government’.
‘We do not go so far’, said the head of the deputation (sc. of Hungarian Serbs). ‘One nation can live under several different Governments, and again several nations can form a single State.’
[Cited by Temperley 1919]
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East, W.G., Prescott, J.R.V. (1975). The Categories of States. In: Our Fragmented World. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15561-3_5
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