nonstate

nonstate
Not a state: lacking the institutional power or authority of an organized government

World events are increasingly dominated by nonstate actors.

2. noun
A sociopolitical entity other than a state.

States that fail to sufficiently attend to the "imagined" attributes of statehood required by the international system risk being deemed nonstates by the international community...


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