Abstract
De facto states have moved from a periphery to the center of academicattention during the last two decades. The objective of the paper is anidentification of characteristic development trends within a set of thesenon-state territorial political units, and it investigates the relation betweenthe degree of their internal sovereignty and their level of partialinternational recognition. The quantitative method for assessment of thedegree of internal sovereignty is based on a set of seven indicators and anaggregate “indicator of internal sovereignty”. The set of de facto states iscomposed of 26 entities whose development is analyzed from 2001 to 2018.The results confirmed a relationship between the development of worldpolitics and the development trends within the set of de facto states, asignificant influence of partial international recognition on the level ofinternal sovereignty, and a close relation between security and politicalindicators of sovereignty.
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