Why Creating New Countries is Hard
Only four newly independent countries have joined the United Nations this century. In this video I break down some of the challenges to a region gaining its independence - and becoming apart the international system.
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Video contents
0:00 - New countries
1:30 - Sovereignty
2:17 - Theories of statehood
4:00 - Nation-state
5:18 - Why states aren't getting bigger
6:23 - New countries since 2000
7:23 - Catalonia, Scotland and Iraqi Kurdistan
10:31 - Barriers to independence
13:47 - Government with shared powers
17:20 - Balkanization
19:00 - The world map
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