Practice question · True or false
Recognition by other states is one of the Montevideo criteria for statehood.
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- Count the four criteria the convention lists.
- Population, territory, government, and capacity for relations with other states.
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False
Why
False, and the omission is why contested cases stay contested. The convention lists a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and the capacity to enter relations with other states. Recognition is a political act by others, and the declarative theory the convention embodies deliberately keeps it out of the definition.
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