0 the condition of being a country or a part of a large country that has its own government:
1 the condition of being a political unit within a country, for example within the U.S:
the struggle for Palestinian statehood
As a result, the elite that pioneered refugee relief demanded full statehood.
Election results following the transition to statehood showed, as already noted, that the people continued to accept this system.
The audience for this praise was not only the local public, but also the president, on whom statehood depended.
The advent of independent statehood in 1993 did not mark a break with those dynamics.
In the 1950s the national income was still extremely small by standards of modern statehood.
By contrast, no legislation relating to remaining disabled people was adopted during the initial decades after statehood.
Common to virtually all of them were the generic challenges of modern statehood: legitimacy, identity, security, economic development.
Both statehood and enclave production continued to be sustained by the international system.
