States Within States
Subtitle: Incipient Political Entities in the Post-Cold War Era
Contributors: Paul Kingston (Editor); Ian Spears (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781403963857
Subjects: International relations; Politics/International Relations; National state; Government - State & Provincial; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics and government; Political Ideologies - Democracy; History & Theory - General; Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems; Dismemberment of nations; Developing countries; Legitimacy of governments
First sentence: One of the principal problems facing many Third World states has been the inability to consolidate power over a defined piece of territory.