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Too Small To Be A Nation.(Periscope; SEPARATIST REGIONS)(questions on South Ossetia's international recognition as an autonomous state)(Brief article)
Byline: Travis Wentworth
Russia's support for tiny South Ossetia's independence raises a befuddling legal question: can a state be too marginal to be recognized? If granted autonomy, South Ossetia would rank as the world's 11th smallest state by population (72,000) and the 30th by landmass (3,900 square kilometers). Its GDP is negligible, but probably larger than widely recognized nations like Nauru. In any event, smallness itself is not the hurdle. The standard definition of a state is found in the 1933 Montevideo Convention, which says that such an entity must have defined borders and a functioning government with "effective control" over a permanent population. South Ossetia arguably lacks all of the above, but then so ...
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