Protectorate | Middle East, Sovereignty & Autonomy | Britannica
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WEBprotectorate, in international relations, the relationship between two states one of which exercises some decisive control over the other. The degree of control may vary from a situation in which the protecting state guarantees and protects the safety of the other, such as the status afforded to the kingdom of Bhutan by India, to one that is a masked form of annexation, in the manner of the ...
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