DE FACTO STATES

Abstract

De facto states are also known as “unrecognized states”, “partially recognized states”,
and states with limited recognition... They are the target of research, proving facts, debates,
and analyses, about the applicability of international rules and segmenting which states can
enter the group of de facto states, and which do not.For many, the Montevideo Convention is
applicable here, to see the rights and obligations of states. But is there a list of these countries
today? Many mention Kosovo, Northern Cyprus, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia, Palestine,
Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Donetsk People’s Republic, and Luhansk People’s
Republic... What is the status of these countries and why do they not yet have international
recognition?