After Slobodan Milosevic, the war's perpetrator, was pressured into signing a peace accord, Bosnia became an international protectorate.

The Guardian continued to argue for a land war "to capture Kosovo and turn it into an international protectorate."

The proposed deal called for creation of an international protectorate in Kosovo.

Entities referred to as "international protectorates" can become so subordinated to the protecting power that in effect they lose their independent statehood, though there are exceptions.

He also championed and justified with the UN the Italian international protectorate over Ethiopia which ended at the end of 1959.

What happened in the 1990's was that those territories became a new kind of colony: international protectorates underwritten by U.S. military and monetary might.

NATO is also talking of an "international protectorate" for Kosovo.

But Bosnia cannot make the transition from international protectorate to independent state until it surpasses the limitations of the Dayton accords.

Given all that has happened since Rambouillet, that looks very much like an international protectorate.

In March 1934, he set up a doctor's practice in Tangier (then an international protectorate), but by October he had left again.