Changes in the political map after 1945

"Political maps lie," Robert Kaplan, an American diplomat analysing domestic politics across continents, noted somewhat provocatively in 1994. He accurately captured the fact that the image of a world divided between sovereign states, suggested by political maps, is false. The reality of the political space in the world is quite different than conventional political maps and often remains hidden from us. We therefore bring you a unique and comprehensive overview of the development of internationally unrecognized and collapsed states after 1945, which includes a collection of states with limited sovereignty in the world that has not yet been compiled. The book illuminates the factors limiting the sovereignty of each state and the period of their existence, and reveals the nature of wanted and unwanted states, whose existence significantly affects national, regional and global security and is the origin of frequent armed conflicts and international political tensions.