Client state  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search  A client state is a state that is
economically, politically or militarily subordinate to another
more powerful state in international affairs.[1] Types of client
states include: satellite state, associated state, puppet state,
neo-colony, protectorate, vassal state and tributary state.
Client states in antiquity[edit]  Persia, Greece, and Rome[edit]
Ancient states such as Persia and Greek city-states would create
client states by making the leaders of that state subservient.
Classical Athens for example forced weaker states into the
Delian League and in some cases imposed democratic government on
them. Later, Philip II of Macedon similarly imposed the League
of Corinth. One of the most prolific users of client states was
Republican Rome[2][3] which, instead of conquering and then
absorbing into an empire, chose to make client states out of
those it defeated (e.g. Demetrius of Pharos), a policy which was
continued up until the 1