Source: Foreign Policy BY JOSHUA KEATING | FEBRUARY 26, 2008 Step 1: Make sure you are eligible As tempting as it might be to declare your cubicle a sovereign state, customary international law actually does specify minimum standards for statehood. You must have a defined territory. You must have a permanent population. You must have [...]

Source: Yahoo! Voices Good morning, what I will be speaking about today is “How to form your own independent nation.” This is definitely not the most useful topic to use in everyday life, or the most plausible. But why I chose this topic is because it can give insight as to how nations are formed, [...]

  Source: Yahoo! Voices   What is this immensity of this real estate we call India? Is it one nation, one monolithic entity or a conglomeration of tribes? While growing up, my perception of India was a country divided into three major groups: the rich; the poor; and people like me who belonged to neither, [...]