How the Vatican's Embassies Work | Wendover Productions
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How the Vatican's Embassies Work | Wendover Productions

C1AdvancedOctober 8, 202627 min
  • Documentary
  • Politics

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On the margins, statehood starts to get subjective.

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On the margins, statehood starts to get subjective. There are plenty of countries whose status as sovereign states is never really refuted – France, Japan, the US. There are also some that nearly no one recognizes as sovereign states – the Soari Arab Democratic

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Republic, Northern Cyprus, South Ossetia. In between is the subjective line representing near-universal recognition by other countries. There are nations that start to approach this line, exhibiting most tenets of statehood, yet lacking the sort of near-universal recognition that leads to the colloquial status of countryhood—Cosavo

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and Palestine, most notably. But then, directly on the other side of the line is one singular example of a state that simply does not exhibit many, perhaps even most, of the traditional characteristics of sovereign statehood, yet enjoys near universal, unequivocal recognition as a sovereign state.

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