This is a list of proposed state mergers, including both current and historical proposals originating from sovereign states or organizations. The entities listed below differ from
separatist movements in that they would form as a merger or union of two or more existing
states,
territories
A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, particularly belonging or connected to a country, person, or animal.
In international politics, a territory is usually either the total area from which a state may extract power resources or an ...
, colonies or other regions, becoming either a federation,
confederation or other type of unified
sovereign state.
Current proposals
Historical
Early modern period
19th century
20th century
21st century
See also
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Arab Union
The Arab Union is a theoretical political union of the Arab states. The term was first used when the British Empire promised the Arabs a united independent state in return for revolting against the Ottoman Empire, with whom Britain was at war. ...
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Atlantic Union
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Atlantic Union was the most common name for the proposal, originally advanced by journalist Clarence Streit in 1939, to unite the world's leading democratic nations into a federal union, in much the way the thirt ...
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Dynastic union
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Independence referendum
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Irredentism
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List of irredentist claims or disputes
This is a list of irredentist claims or disputes. Irredentism is any political or popular movement that seeks to claim or reclaim and occupy a land that the movement's members consider to be a "lost" (or "unredeemed") territory from their natio ...
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Lists of active separatist movements
Presented below is a list of lists of active separatist movements:
*List of active separatist movements in Africa
*List of active separatist movements in Asia
*List of active separatist movements in Europe
*List of active separatist movements i ...
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North American Union
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Pan-Latinism
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Pan-nationalism
Pan-nationalism (from gr, πᾶν, "all", and french: nationalisme, "nationalism") is a specific term, used mainly in social sciences as a designation for those forms of nationalism that aim to transcend (overcome, expand) traditional boundari ...
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Political union
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Supranational union
A supranational union is a type of international organization that is empowered to directly exercise some of the powers and functions otherwise reserved to states. A supranational organization involves a greater transfer of or limitation of ...
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Turanism
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United States of Africa
The United States of Africa is a hypothetical concept of a federation of some or all of the 54 sovereign states and two disputed states on the continent of Africa. The concept takes its origin from Marcus Garvey's 1924 poem " Hail, United Stat ...
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United States of Europe
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References
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state mergers
National unifications
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