Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood

A journalist explores how our world's borders came to be and how self-proclaimed countries across the globe could change the map.

What is a country? While certain basic criteria—borders, a government, and recognition from other countries—seem obvious, journalist Joshua Keating investigates what happens in areas of the world that exist as exceptions to these rules. Invisible Countries looks at semiautonomous countries such as Abkhazia, Kurdistan, and Somaliland, as well as a Mohawk reserva...