Recognizing Foreign Governments: The Practice of the United States
A summary of U.S. policy and practice over the years, on a country-by-country, case-by-case basis. It charts a gradual change whereby the question has lost political and legal importance as the United States has tried to avoid defining its relations with newly established governments in terms of recognition or nonrecognition.
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