

In some cases, the process of decolonization has been managed by the decolonizing power to create a neo-colonythat is a nominally independent state whose economy and politics permits continued foreign domination.

Pro-Axis governments in both Iraq and Iran were removed and replaced with Allied-dominated governments. The Axis demand for oil and the concern of the Allies that Germany would look to the oil-rich Middle East for a solution, caused the invasion of Iraq by the United Kingdom and the invasion of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. These states fall into several categories. These plans ended when the Japanese surrendered on August 15, The formal means of control in occupied Europe varied greatly. The Provisional Priamurye Government never got beyond the planning stages. Japan had made drafts for other dependent states.

In Britain established a state in Zanzibar.ĭuring Japan's imperial periodand particularly during the Pacific War parts of which are considered the Pacific theatre of World War IIthe Imperial Japanese regime established a number of dependent states. In Italy, republics were created in the late 18th and early 19th centuries with the assistance and encouragement of Napoleonic France see also French client republics. The Batavian Republic was established in the Netherlands under French revolutionary protection. Since the Peace of Westphalia of the concept of a nation came into existence where sovereignty was connected more to the people who inhabited the land than to the nobility who owned the land.Ī similar concept mainly associated with preth century political history is suzeraintythe control of the external affairs of one state by another. In the Middle Ages vassal states existed which were based on delegation of rule of a country from a King to noble men of lower rank. The term is a metaphor which compares a state or government to a puppet controlled by a puppeteer using strings. International law does not recognize occupied puppet states as legitimate. A puppet state preserves the external paraphernalia of independence such as a name, flaganthemconstitutionlaw codesmotto and governmentbut in reality it is an organ of another state which creates, sponsors or otherwise controls the government of the puppet state the "puppet government". Puppet states are forced into providing legal endorsement for actions already taken by a foreign power. Puppet states are distinguished from allieswhich choose their actions on their own or in accordance with treaties they voluntarily entered.
