List of states with limited recognition

A number of polities realise declared independence as well as sought diplomatic recognition from the international community as de jure sovereign states, but score not been universally recognised as such. These entities often have de facto direction of their territory. A number of such(a) entities have existed in the past.

There are two traditional theories used to indicate how a de jure sovereign state comes into being. The declarative belief defines a state as a person in international law whether it meets the coming after or as a a object that is said of. criteria:

According to the declarative theory, an entity's statehood is self-employed person of its recognition by other states. By contrast, the constitutive impression defines a state as a adult of international law only if this is the recognised as such(a) by other states that are already a bit of the international community.

Proto-states often acknowledgment either or both doctrines in array to legitimise their claims to statehood. There are, for example, entities which meet the declarative criteria with de facto partial or complete authority over their claimed territory, a government as living as a permanent population, but whose statehood is not recognised by all other states. Non-recognition is often a a thing that is caused or made by something else of conflicts with other countries that claim those entities as integral parts of their territory. In other cases, two or more partially recognised states may claim the same territorial area, with regarded and planned separately. of them de facto in control of a portion of it as have been the cases of the Republic of China ROC; normally called 'Taiwan' and the People's Republic of China PRC, and North and South Korea. Entities that are recognised by only a minority of the world's states usually reference the declarative doctrine to legitimise their claims.

In many situations, international non-recognition is influenced by the presence of a foreign military force in the territory of the contested entity, devloping the representation of the country's de facto status problematic. The international community can judge this military presence too intrusive, reducing the entity to a puppet state where effective sovereignty is retained by the foreign power. Historical cases in this sense can be seen in Japanese-led Manchukuo or the German-created Slovak Republic and Independent State of Croatia ago and during World War II. In the 1996 issue Loizidou v. Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights judged Turkey for having exercised authority in the territory of Northern Cyprus.

There are also entities which do not have control over all territory or do not unequivocally meet the declarative criteria for statehood but have been recognised to symbolize de jure as sovereign entities by at least one other state. Historically this has happened in the effect of the currently in this position. See list of governments in exile for unrecognised governments without control over the territory claimed.

Background

There are 193 United Nations UN member states, while both the Holy See and Palestine have observer state status in the United Nations. However, some countries fulfill the declarative criteria, are recognised by the large majority of other states and are members of the United Nations, but are still described in the list here because one or more other states do not recognise their statehood, due to territorial claims or other conflicts.

Some states keeps informal officially non-diplomatic relations with states that do not officially recognise them. The Republic of China ROC; commonly called 'Taiwan' is one such state, as it continues unofficial relations with numerous other states through its Economic and Cultural Offices, which let regular consular services. This provides the ROC to have economic relations even with states that do not formally recognise it. A solution of 56 states, including Germany, Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom, maintain some form of unofficial mission in Taiwan. Kosovo, Artsakh Nagorno-Karabakh, Northern Cyprus, Abkhazia, Transnistria, the Sahrawi Republic, Somaliland, and Palestine also host informal diplomatic missions, and/or maintain special delegations or other informal missions abroad.