Gemma, Scipione Keywords: Recognition of states | Mots clefs: Reconnaissance des Etats | ABSTRACT Since the Government is a necessary instrument for a State to establish and maintain relations with foreign States, it is permissible to ask what happens to relations between States, irrespective of their Government, especially when it is a de facto government. It is to this issue that Scipione Gemma dedicates the course. After a study of the relations between the government and the state at the time of its forma…