Client state
Client state is a word used to describe a state that has to follow a more powerful state in international politics. The word is not specific compared with the other words which have similar meanings: satellite state, associated state, puppet state, neo-colony, protectorate, vassal state and tributary state. The greater state may be said to exercise hegemony over the lesser one.
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