User:Orange Tuesday/Sources

Hi everyone. Feel free to add anything you think is relevant but please clearly mark all sources which were published before Kosovo's declaration of independence so we can put them in the proper context.Orange Tuesday (talk) 05:32, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

192

Unspecified, presumably UN only

• "Only 192 sovereign states exist." [1]
• "We are living in a world of 192 sovereign states, all UN members" [2]
• "There are now 192 sovereign states" [3]
• "There are 192 independent states in the world" [4]
• [quoting an older source. square brackets are his] "only 189 [now 192] nation states." [5]
• "As a result, the number of sovereign states has increased from roughly fifty-five at the start of the past century to 192 today." [6]
• Google Scholar: [7]

193

UN + Vatican

• "Today there are 193 internationally recognized sovereign states in the world" [8]

UN + Taiwan

• "UN membership is a pretty clear measure of international recognition of a state, although Taiwan merits addition to this list given its broad acknowledgement if not necessarily formal recognition. ... Consequently, Table 1.1 gives geographical and historical data for all 193 sovereign states." [9]

Unspecified

• "There are some 193 governmental decision-makers organized in as many sovereign states." [10]
• "The world's 193 sovereign states define themselves by political boundaries." [11]
• Google Scholar: [12]
• Google books

194

UN + Vatican + Kosovo

• US State Department [13] (lots of sources just cite this list rather than trying to come up with their own)
• "This explains why there are 192 members of the UN but 194 sovereign states in the world." [14]

UN + Kosovo + Taiwan

• Freedom House [15] (One source cited this list rather than trying to come up with their own)

Unspecified

• Google Scholar: [16]

195

UN + Vatican + Taiwan + Kosovo

• "195 Nation-States (Kosovo, Taiwan, and Vatican City were not in the UN in 2009)" [17]
• "There are 195 independent countries in the world" [18]
• "As of May 2009 there are currently 195 countries in the world." [19]

Unspecified

• Google Scholar: [20]

203

UN + Vatican + "Other states"

• "currently there are 203 sovereign 'nation states'" [21] (I get the sense this one used Wikipedia as a source)
• "Excepting Vatican City, there are at present 192 sovereign member countries in the UNO. Apart from this, there exist 10 sovereign states comprising six independent states such as Abkhazia, Chinese Taiwan, Kosovo, Palestinian Territories, South Ossetia and four autonomous republics such as Somaliland, Turkish Cyprus, Transnistria and Northern Cyprus" [22]

Pre-2008 Sources

194 (as of 2007)

• "SOVEREIGN STATES NOT IN THE UNITED NATIONS (April 2007) China (Taiwan) Vatican City (Holy See)" [23]

195 (as of 2000)

Published 2000. Presumably 190 UN (no Est Timor, Montenegro) + VC + 2 others (not Kosovo)

• "Today, some 195 sovereign and legally equal states, but with different capabilities, regime-structures and interests, interact on the international arena."[24]

202 (as of 2007)

Published 2007. Presumably 192 UN + VC + Other 10 (less Kosovo, declared 1 year after publication date).

• Globalization/anti-globalization: beyond the great divide [25] - "There are now 202 sovereign states (192 members of the United Nations, nine are not UN members but are recognized under the Montevideo Convention, and one is generally recognized internationally (Vatican City))."

Estimates

About 200

• "At present there are about 200 political entities called states." [26]
• Google Scholar: [27]

More complicated layouts

• "A revised list of independent states since the congress of Vienna" [28]

192 UN + VC + 10 Others -Palestine - SADR + 3 "Semi-sovereign entities": Cook Islands, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands

Not a List or Enumeration

Somalia isn't a state

• "In many ways, Somalia is not a state at all, but more a lawless space between its neighbors and the sea." [29] (2008)
• ".. reasons why Somalia is not a state, including that Somalia does not have a functioning government, that it has continuously been in a state of civil war, and that in January 2007 it declared a state of emergency". [30] (2010)

Keep in mind these are specific descriptions of one state and generally what we're trying to do here is look at sources which attempt list or enumerate all of the states in the world. Orange Tuesday (talk)