Somaliland, an independence-seeking statelet in the Horn of Africa, for example, has curbed the destruction of its ageing weapons because international sanctions stop it buying new ones.

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Instead they imagine a thriving statelet within a larger Europe.

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In the first year after the war ended, Bosnia's Serbs got hardly any, because the statelet's rulers refused to go to a donors' conference as part of an all-Bosnia delegation embracing Bosnia's Muslim-Croat federation.

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