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*{{Flag|Dominica}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dominica: The Push for Annexation with the United States|url=https://www.thedominican.net/articlesone/usannex.htm|access-date=2021-04-18|website=www.thedominican.net}}</ref> |
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*{{Flag|France}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sylvan |first=David|date=2003-02-25|title=An Agent-Based Model of the Acquisition of U.S. Client States|url=https://faculty.washington.edu/majeski/isa03.pap.pdf|journal=The Continuity of Client States and Military Intervention|language=en}}</ref> |
*{{Flag|France}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sylvan |first=David|date=2003-02-25|title=An Agent-Based Model of the Acquisition of U.S. Client States|url=https://faculty.washington.edu/majeski/isa03.pap.pdf|journal=The Continuity of Client States and Military Intervention|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-06-24|title=NSA : «D'un point de vue technologique, la France est une colonie américaine»|url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/politique/2015/06/24/31001-20150624ARTFIG00213-nsa-d-un-point-de-vue-technologique-la-france-est-une-colonie-americaine.php|access-date=2021-06-27|website=LEFIGARO|language=fr}}</ref> |
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*{{Flag|Georgia}}<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lieven|first=Anatol|date=2007-11-14|title=A Tale of Two Client States|url=https://nationalinterest.org/commentary/inside-track-a-tale-of-two-client-states-1867|access-date=2020-01-21|website=The National Interest|language=en}}</ref> |
*{{Flag|Georgia}}<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lieven|first=Anatol|date=2007-11-14|title=A Tale of Two Client States|url=https://nationalinterest.org/commentary/inside-track-a-tale-of-two-client-states-1867|access-date=2020-01-21|website=The National Interest|language=en}}</ref> |
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*{{Flag|Germany}}<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-04-12|title=Deutschland, Kolonie der USA – Die Weichen wurden in der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit gestellt|url=https://www.westendverlag.de/kommentare/deutschland-kolonie-der-usa-die-weichen-wurden-in-der-unmittelbaren-nachkriegszeit-gestellt/|access-date=2021-03-15|website=Westend Verlag GmbH|language=de-DE}}</ref> |
*{{Flag|Germany}}<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-04-12|title=Deutschland, Kolonie der USA – Die Weichen wurden in der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit gestellt|url=https://www.westendverlag.de/kommentare/deutschland-kolonie-der-usa-die-weichen-wurden-in-der-unmittelbaren-nachkriegszeit-gestellt/|access-date=2021-03-15|website=Westend Verlag GmbH|language=de-DE}}</ref> |
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*{{Flag|Japan}}<ref>{{Cite news|last=Gittings|first=John|date=2007-09-12|title=Contradictions of a client state|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/sep/12/contradictionsofaclientsta|access-date=2020-01-22|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> |
*{{Flag|Japan}}<ref>{{Cite news|last=Gittings|first=John|date=2007-09-12|title=Contradictions of a client state|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/sep/12/contradictionsofaclientsta|access-date=2020-01-22|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> |
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*{{Flag|Liberia}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=C.|first=Johnathan|date=April 11, 1996|title=U.S. COPTERS FERRY HUNDREDS OUT OF CHAOTIC LIBERIA|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/04/11/us-copters-ferry-hundreds-out-of-chaotic-liberia/51b4c515-0e61-4695-a203-fb0605d3551d/|journal=The New York Times|language=en}}</ref> |
*{{Flag|Liberia}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=C.|first=Johnathan|date=April 11, 1996|title=U.S. COPTERS FERRY HUNDREDS OUT OF CHAOTIC LIBERIA|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/04/11/us-copters-ferry-hundreds-out-of-chaotic-liberia/51b4c515-0e61-4695-a203-fb0605d3551d/|journal=The New York Times|language=en}}</ref> |
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*{{Flag|Norway}}<ref>{{Cite web|last=Leer-Salvesen|first=Tarjei|title=– Norge er som en koloni!|url=https://arkiv.klassekampen.no/article/20021123/ARTICLE/311239966|access-date=2021-06-27|website=Klassekampen}}</ref> |
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*{{Flag|Mexico}}<ref>{{Cite news|title=How Mexico’s New President Is Turning His Country Into a Servile US Client|language=en|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-mexicos-new-president-turning-his-country-servile-us-client/|access-date=2021-04-21|issn=0027-8378}}</ref> |
*{{Flag|Mexico}}<ref>{{Cite news|title=How Mexico’s New President Is Turning His Country Into a Servile US Client|language=en|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-mexicos-new-president-turning-his-country-servile-us-client/|access-date=2021-04-21|issn=0027-8378}}</ref> |
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*{{Flag|Philippines}}<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bustos|first=Loren|last2=Cabacungan|first2=Vanessa|title=TIMELINE: Efforts to make the Philippines a US state|url=http://r3.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/56124-timeline-ph-us-state-annexation|access-date=2021-04-20|website=Rappler|language=en}}</ref> |
*{{Flag|Philippines}}<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bustos|first=Loren|last2=Cabacungan|first2=Vanessa|title=TIMELINE: Efforts to make the Philippines a US state|url=http://r3.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/56124-timeline-ph-us-state-annexation|access-date=2021-04-20|website=Rappler|language=en}}</ref> |
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*{{Flag|Spain}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sylvan |first=David|date=2003-02-25|title=An Agent-Based Model of the Acquisition of U.S. Client States|url=https://faculty.washington.edu/majeski/isa03.pap.pdf|journal=The Continuity of Client States and Military Intervention|language=en}}</ref> |
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*{{Flag|Ukraine}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dubovyk|first=Volodymyr|date=2017-02-16|title=Is Ukraine a "Client State" of the United States?|url=http://www.ponarseurasia.org/memo/ukraine-client-state-united-states|journal=PonarsEuarasia - Policy Memos|language=en}}</ref> |
*{{Flag|Ukraine}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dubovyk|first=Volodymyr|date=2017-02-16|title=Is Ukraine a "Client State" of the United States?|url=http://www.ponarseurasia.org/memo/ukraine-client-state-united-states|journal=PonarsEuarasia - Policy Memos|language=en}}</ref> |
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*{{Flag|United Kingdom}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Britain is a US client state and should not forget it, says the neocons' oracle {{!}} Politics {{!}} The Guardian|url=https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/nov/19/foreignpolicy.usa|access-date=2021-06-07|website=amp.theguardian.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2003-07-19|title=Will Hutton: Don't sell out to Uncle Sam|url=http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/jul/20/foreignpolicy.usa|access-date=2021-06-07|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref> |
*{{Flag|United Kingdom}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Britain is a US client state and should not forget it, says the neocons' oracle {{!}} Politics {{!}} The Guardian|url=https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/nov/19/foreignpolicy.usa|access-date=2021-06-07|website=amp.theguardian.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2003-07-19|title=Will Hutton: Don't sell out to Uncle Sam|url=http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/jul/20/foreignpolicy.usa|access-date=2021-06-07|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=We are now a client state {{!}} Politics {{!}} The Guardian|url=https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2003/jul/17/usa.world|access-date=2021-06-27|website=amp.theguardian.com}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
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A client state is a state that is economically, politically, or militarily subordinate to another more powerful state (termed controlling state in this article) in
.Controlling states in history
Persia, Greece, and Rome
Ancient states such as
Under the Mongols and the Yuan dynasty
In the 13th century,
Ottoman Empire
The number of tributary or vassal states varied over time but notable were the
19th and 20th centuries
This section needs additional citations for verification. (July 2014) |
Russia and Serbia
The
Great Britain and Austria both considered Serbia as a client state controlled by Russia.[9] Most historians call Serbia a client state but historian Christopher Clark disagrees. He says the Russians made a mistake in thinking Serbia was a client state. In an unpublished commentary Clark argues:
It was a risk enhancing initiative [of Russian Foreign Minister Serge Sazanov]
to allow Serbia to becometo see Serbia as a kind of client; ... Serbia, to my knowledge, has never been a client of anyone. [...] This is a mistake, when Great Powers think they can secure the services of "client states";ThatThose "clients" are never in fact "clients"! That's a mistake that is presumably going to continue being made by our political leaderships, though one hopes one day it will stop.[10]
France
During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras (1789–1815), France conquered most of western Europe and established several client states. At first, during the
During the First French Empire, while Napoleon and the French army conquered Europe, such states changed, and several new states were formed. The Italian republics were transformed into the Kingdom of Italy under Napoleon's direct rule in the north, and the Kingdom of Naples in the south, first under Joseph Bonaparte's rule and later under Marshal Joachim Murat. A third state was created in the Italian Peninsula, the Kingdom of Etruria. The Batavian Republic was replaced by the Kingdom of Holland, ruled by Napoleon's third brother, Louis Bonaparte.
A total of 35 German states, all of them allies of France, seceded from the
Following the
In the 20th century, France started to apply the concept of
sometimes extended to the former Belgian colonies. At present the term is used on some occasions to criticise the allegedly neocolonial relationship France has with its former colonies in Africa.The countries involved provide oil and minerals important to the French economy. In addition, French companies have commercial interests in several countries of the continent.
British Empire
In the
Germany
After
United States of America
The term applied to authoritarian regimes with close ties to the United States during the Cold War, more appropriately referred to as U.S. proxy states, such as
- Chile (1973–1990)
- island of Taiwanfrom 1949)
- Cuba (1902–1959)
- Khmer Republic (1970–1975)
- South Vietnam (1955–1975)
- South Korea
- China (Sino-Soviet split-Chinese economic reform)
A school of thought saw an earlier incarnation of Canada as a client state of the U.S.[15]
The term might also arguably be used for those states extremely economically dependent on a more powerful nation. The three Pacific Ocean countries associated with the United States under the Compact of Free Association (the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Palau) may fall somewhat[quantify] in this category.
Japan
In the late 19th century, the
- Manchukuo
- Korean Empire
- State of Burma
- Second Philippine Republic
- Kingdom of Laos
- Azad Hind
- Mengjiang
- Republic of China(Wang Jingwei regime,East Hebei Autonomous Government,Great Way Government)
- Cambodia(from 9 March 1945 to 16 October 1945)
- Empire of Vietnam
Soviet Union
Soviet proxy or "client" states included much of the
- Warsaw Pact and Comecon states:
- Albania (1946-1968)
- Bulgaria
- Cuba
- Czechoslovakia
- East Germany (1949-1990)
- Hungary
- Mongolia
- Poland
- de-satellization of Romania)
- Vietnam (North Vietnam to 1976)
- People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979–1989)
- Afghanistan (1979–92)
- People's Republic of China (until the Sino-Soviet split)
- Laos
- North Korea
- People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1974–1991 (Derg until 1987))
- South Yemen
- Tito-Stalin split)
21st century
Australia
- Papua New Guinea, also involved in the Pacific Solution, has been called to a lesser extent, a client state of Australia.[23]
People's Republic of China
- Cambodia has sometimes been considered a client state of China.[24]
- Cuba
- Laos has also been considered a Chinese client state, although this is disputed.[25]
- Myanmar has been described as "a near-client state of China".[26]
- Nepal has been described as a client state of China by Huffpost.[27]
- North Korea has sometimes been seen as a client state of the People's Republic of China since the Dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991,[16] although this sometimes disputed.[28]
- Eritrea
- Zimbabwe has sometimes been referred to as a client state.[29]
France
- Cameroon has been described as a client state of France.[30]
- Djibouti has been described as a client state of France.[31]
- Gabon has been described as a client state of France.[32]
- Ivory Coast has been described as a client state of France.[33]
India
- Bangladesh has sometimes been referred to as a client state.[34][35]
- Bhutan is sometimes referred to as an Indian client state.[36][37]
Iran
These countries have to varying degrees been called client states of Iran.
Russia
- Belarus - Financial Times has said that Russia "has long treated Belarus as a client state".[43]
- Cuba
- Serbia
- Kyrgyzstan has been referred to as a Russian client state.[44][45]
- Armenia is sometimes referred to as a Russian client state.[46]
- Syria has sometimes been called a client state of Russia.[47][48][49][50]
- Venezuela is sometimes referred to as a Russian client state.[51]
- Eritrea
- Yemen (Supreme Political Council)
- Transnistria has been referred to as a client state of Russia.[52]
Japan
Saudi Arabia
- Bahrain - According to The Atlantic, "Bahrain has long positioned itself as a client state to Saudi Arabia as well as the U.S."[54]
- United Arab Emirates
- civil war in Yemen.
Turkey
- Azerbaijan is sometimes referred to as a Turkish client state.[55]
- Northern Cyprus is often referred to as a Turkish client state.
United States of America
There are three Pacific Island states that are under the Compact of Free Association:
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Marshall Islands
- Palau
- Puerto Rico Is officially a commonwealth of the United States, that is, it has a pact of association for the common good with the United States. It is an associated state, but unlike the other three it is not entirely independent.
Walter C. Ladwig III, Assistant Professor of International Relations at King's College London, classifies Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as "contemporary client states" of the United States.[56]
Various other media have listed the following as American client states:[57][58][59]
- Afghanistan
- Argentina
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Belize
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Morocco
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Peru
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- South Korea
- Taiwan
- Tunisia
- United Arab Emirates
- Yemen (Cabinet of Yemen)
While the term has also been used to describe:
- Australia[60][61]
- Austria[62]
- Brazil[63]
- Canada[64]
- Czech[65]
- Denmark[66]
- Dominica[67]
- France[68][69]
- Georgia[70]
- Germany[71]
- Greece[72]
- Italy[73][74]
- Iceland[75]
- Japan[76]
- Liberia[77]
- Norway[78]
- Mexico[79]
- Philippines[80]
- Portugal[81]
- Romania[82]
- Spain[83]
- Ukraine[84]
- United Kingdom[85][86][87]
See also
- Protectorate
- Indirect rule
- Vassal state
- Tributary (political)
- Suzerain
- Puppet state
- Banana republic
- Satellite state
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The dependency school, dominant in the 1960s and early 1970s, argued that Canada is an economic colony with a client state. [...] while it might have been possible a decade ago to use a Latin American dependency model when describing Canada, because of its excessive degree of foreign ownership and 'American client state' status, both Canadian capitalists and the Canadian state have now 'come of age.'
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