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Equality of States-Its Meaning in a Constitutionalized Global Order

I. INTRODUCTION

In the discourse on international relations, we routinely differentiate between various categories of states and label them according to certain criteria that we consider relevant for our understanding of the dynamics of international politics. Sometimes these criteria are purely factual, but mostly they have an evaluative, even moralizing, overtone. For example, the denotation of a state as a coastal state, inland state, nuclear state, or nuclear-power state is both factual and informative. Arguably, labels like Great Power, small state, or developing state combine factual with evaluative elements. But most state labels have a predominantly evaluative character. Labels such ...

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