Definitions of a sovereign national state

The elements defining national sovereign states according to international law are four fold:
Defined territories
Permanent stable populations
A government with permanent apparatus in place to govern
International standing inthe global community
I think International law has developed in a fluid and ad hoc manner according to situationally determined scenarios on these issues. The most contentious isue is territory, or territorial disputes for the most part. The border dispute has been seminal in the Israeli-arab fiasco since the time of the Carter diplomacy and this is an ongoing haggle in U.S. peacemaking efforts.Notwithstanding populations by numbers, populations if they are stable without the occurence of civil war seems to be the concern of the global community.Government apparati with a central government in force is lacking in Somalia. In the past, instability has often been temporarily remedied by mandateships and trusteeships pending global diplomatic recognition of the failed state involved. A failed state is subjected to such action if they are decimated or unstable as to the foregoing elements.Although this did not occur in Japan after she was vanquished by war, as she was kept afloat by U.S.economic efforts as was Europe through Lend Lease and other aid after the War (II).
The Arab Israeli peace talks and diplomacy during the Carter Presidency, were complicated diplomatic overtures by the U.S. as the situation involving the issues of a general peace involved diplomatic recognition , and the general nature of peace, Israeli withdrawal, and the Palestinian "question" and the bearing and opinions even among the Arabs on how to configure the Palestinians at Geneva. There were at the outset irresolvable issues even with dissidence amongthe Arab actors. Often these dissident scenarios fester for years ,as has this one, and does not always involve the primacy of territory.
Territorial disputes are often the cosmetics and pretextual of unerlying sectarian hatreds and disuniions within a contiguous territory.
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