Editing Puppet state (section)

{{short description|State controlled by another state}}
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A '''puppet state''', '''puppet régime''', '''puppet government''' or '''dummy government'''<ref name="Shuster"/> is a [[State (polity)|state]] that is ''[[de jure]]'' independent but ''[[de facto]]'' completely dependent upon an outside [[Power (international relations)|power]] and subject to its orders.<ref name="Marek">Compare: {{cite book|last= Marek|first= Krystyna|title= Identity and Continuity of States in Public International Law|year= 1954|publisher= Library Droz|isbn= 9782600040440|page= 178 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=QaF7mnj9igkC | quote = [...] an allegedly independent, but 'actually' dependent, i.e. puppet State [...].}}</ref> Puppet states have nominal [[Sovereign state|sovereignty]], except that a foreign power effectively exercises control through economic or military support.<ref name="McNeely1995">{{cite book|last= McNeely|first= Connie L.|title= Constructing the Nation-state: International Organization and Prescriptive Action|url= https://archive.org/details/constructingnati00mcne|url-access= registration|access-date= 13 September 2017|year= 1995|publisher= Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn= 978-0-313-29398-6|page= [https://archive.org/details/constructingnati00mcne/page/61 61]|quote= The term 'puppet state' is used to describe nominal sovereigns under effective foreign control...}}</ref> By leaving a local government in existence the outside power evades all responsibility, while at the same time successfully paralysing the local government they tolerate.<ref name="Shuster">{{cite web|url=http://www.magepublishers.com/the-strangling-of-persia-a-story-of-european-diplomacy-and-oriental-intrigue/|author=[[Morgan Shuster]]|title = The Strangling of Persia: A Story of European Diplomacy and Oriental Intrigue|page=221|via=No Ruz in: Near East Journal, 21 March 1912}}</ref>{{how|date=May 2023}}

Puppet states differ from [[Alliance|allies]], who choose their actions of their own initiative or in accordance with [[Treaty|treaties]] they have voluntarily entered. Puppet states are forced into [[Rubber stamp (politics)|legally endorsing]] actions already taken by a foreign power.