1.     Mission Statement, Current Officers, and Membership Application
2.     The Nation-state and National Self-determination in Perspective
3.      Nations, Peoples, and Independent States—Tabular Survey
4.     Types of Independent States with Respect of National Self-determination
5.     2002 Annual Survey of Five Designated Geo-cultural Regions of the World, 151 Independent States and about an           Equal Number of Dependent Territorial Ethno-national or Linguistic Groups within the States.
        A.  2002 Summary of Independent States and the Dominated Groups by Geo-cultural Region
        B.  2002 Ranking of the 20 Most Populous Independent States  in Terms of National Self-determination
        C. 2002 Listing of All 151 Independent States, by Geo-cultural Region, Type, Population, and each State’s Number of Dominated Groups.
        D.  2002 Listing of Dependent Territorial Ethno-national or Linguistic Groups by Geo-cultural Region, Population, and Independent State in which each is located.
        E. Brief History of each Dominated Group (150 words or less). Being developed; submissions are welcome for consideration and use by TNS.
6.     Correspondence of TNS with the U.S. Secretary of State & the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
7.     New Items of Interest to be added.

   The Think-tank for National Self-determination, Inc. (TNS), founded in 1994, sponsors original research on national self-determination. That includes related questions such as imperialism and the imperial tendencies of some populous independent states originally organized by the conquest of two or more nations or peoples by an imperial power. TNS research aims to educate the public on national self-determination as a right of every nation.  It is a right which we Americans exercised in a conscious and deliberate act of national self-determination on July 4, 1776, thereby setting an example for oppressed nations around the world. As of 2002, there are some 148 nations or peoples each with a population of two million or more (rounded to the nearest million) that do not have their own independent states.

     The right of nations to national self-determination is recognized in the United Nations Charter.  We believe that the world will be more peaceful when every nation has its own independent state, if that is its wish. Our ideal is a world of free and internally democratic Nation-states cooperating with each other in their own interests and for the common good of all.

      TNS was founded in 1994 as a non-profit corporation with U.S. 501(c)3 tax deductible status.  Internationally, it is a non-governmental organization (NGO). for contributions.

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