De facto states research unit
Agency, dependence and quest for survival
Berg, E., S. Pegg and R. Toomla 2025. De Facto States and COVID-19: New Comparative Insights into Governmental Capacity to Act. Global Studies Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2025, ksaf009.
Yüksel, I. Y., and Berg, E. 2024. Welcomed Friend or Stranger Breaking in? Patron-Client Relations and Ontological (In)securities in Abkhazia. Problems of Post-Communism, 1–11.
Vits, K. 2024. From Nagorno-Karabakh to Taiwan: measuring patron-client relations of de facto states, Territory, Politics, Governance, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 87–105.
Berg, E. and İ. Y. Yüksel 2023. Holding Back or Pushing Forward? Patron-Client Relations and Elite Navigations in Northern Cyprus, Ethnopolitics, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 550-567.
Berg, E. and K. Vits 2020. Exploring De Facto State Agency: Negotiation Power, International Engagement and Patronage, in G. Baldacchino and A. Wivel (eds) Handbook on the Politics of Small States. Edward Elgar Publishers, pp. 379-394.
Berg, E. and K. Vits 2018. Quest for Survival and Recognition: Insights into the Foreign Policy Endeavours of the Post-Soviet de facto States, Ethnopolitics, Vol. 17, No. 4, 390-407.
Pegg, S. 2018. Oil to Cash in Somaliland: A Debate Whose Time Has Come, Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 619-643.
Kamilova, S. and E. Berg 2012. How Can De Facto State Be Distinguished from the Puppet State? Analysis of Transnistrian-Russian Relations and Dependences, in A. Kasekamp (ed) The Estonian Foreign Policy Yearbook 2011. The Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, Tallinn, pp. 151-182.
