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The guidelines, as presented under the Convention, argue that a state must have a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and a capacity to enter into relations with other states. The declarative theory of statehood underpins the idea that once a political entity achieves a “criteria of statehood,” such as the Montevideo Convention of 1933, it is deemed a state.
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Identifying what ISIS is, in terms of international protocols, is needed in order to determine the basis on which states should, or can, engage with it, and how to strategize the response to its violent expansion in the Middle East.
To explore the extent to which ISIS can be deemed a state, both declarative (expressed in the form of the Montevideo Convention) and constitutive statehood theories can be applied to assess ISIS claims to legitimate statehood. Nevertheless, ISIS is neither a terrorist organization nor a political party instead, it is a theocratic proto-state. ISIS’ barbaric use of force to establish dominant power has morally delegitimized its claims to statehood in the eyes of the rest of the world. Although it exhibits certain state-like qualities and characteristics recognised by the Montevideo Convention, the international community has not accorded it recognition as a legitimate political entity. Its territorial heartland of Iraq and Syria has permitted it to establish political roots: it has a de facto administrative capital, Al Raqqah the imposition of its own legislation of Sharia Law and the organization of a potent military force. Known worldwide as the Islamic State, the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) is rejected as an official, independent, and sovereign state under international law.