What is 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. {{stub}} [[Category:International politics]]