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In a broader context, ''successor state'' is applied where the international law concept would be at best anachronistic; for example in Universal History or Comparative History . Arnold J. Toynbee used it to describe the fragments of an Empire (for him, a ''universal state''), so that it could properly be applied both to the kingdoms set up by the generals of Alexander The Great after he died, and to Belarus as a contemporary successor state to the USSR . This usage is by now quite common, though not all obviously attributable to Toynbee and followers. There are therefore several, quite different possible connotations of ''successor state'', in terms of the continuity implied.
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