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Definition of Ministates
1. ministate [n] - See also: ministate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ministates
Literary usage of Ministates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Middle East and North Africa: The Challenge to Western Security by Peter Duignan, Lewis H. Gann (1981)
"Should this happen, Israel might find herself protected by a cordon sanitaire of
Christian, Alawite, and Druze ministates in northern and western Syria and ..."
2. The Fractured Continent: Latin America in Close-Up by Willard Leon Beaulac (1980)
"A clear possibility, however, is that one or more of those ministates, many of
which will have only nominal attributes of sovereignty, will fall under the ..."
3. Sea-Changes: American Foreign Policy in a World Transformed by Nicholas X. Rizopoulos (1990)
"It is not in our interest that the Soviet state collapse into a congeries of
bitterly feuding ministates organized around ancient ethnic hatreds. ..."
4. Nation Against State: A New Approach to Ethnic Conflicts and the Decline of by Gidon Gottlieb (1993)
"European statecraft has granted international standing to suigeneris entities
like the Holy See; to ministates like San Marino, Andorra, Liechtenstein, ..."
5. The World and Yugoslavia's Wars by Richard Henry Ullman (1996)
"While the economic viability of an intact Bosnia had by no means been assured,
that of the ministates that are likely to emerge is even more problematic. ..."
6. Terrorism and Threats to U. S. Interests in Latin America: Hearing Before edited by Jim Saxton (2001)
"... combination of US policies that have increased drug trafficking while
simultaneously undermining the socioeconomic structures of these ministates. ..."
7. Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights by Jemera Rone (2003)
"... administratively combined its garrison towns with the rebel hinterland in each
of the ten southern ministates delineated in 1994. ..."
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