Questions tagged [international]
International mostly means something involving more than a single country.
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Does IAEA conduct spot checks / surprise visits at Iranian nuclear facilities?
I have heard it claimed (in personal conversations) that when the IAEA wishes to make an inspection/visit to an Iranian nuclear facility, it is required to announce its visit a good number of days in ...
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What interventions could decrease the price of Bitcoin? [closed]
The high value of some cryptocurrencies, in particular Bitcoin has had the effect of causing a significant increase in the demand for electricity leading to increases of carbon emissions. (See https:/...
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What is the role of the Kaladan project?
The Kaladan project it seems is the one of the wonders taking place. However I really do not understand what is the point connect Myanmar with India for a route that will connect the main Indian ...
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What is the largest political entity that lacks legislative power?
Lets define some examples to clarify what I'm talking about.
United States: has a legislature in the form of the US Congress
New York: has a state legislature
New York City: can issue its own ...
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What international laws or treaties are there, if any, that encourage countries to prevent people from leaving their countries illegally
Related question: Are there international laws that compel Mexico to prevent migrants from crossing the border and into the U.S.?. My question is not a duplicate because the question I linked is about ...
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Why won't institutions that hand out journalism awards revoke them for a lack of integrity? [closed]
Why won't institutions that hand out journalism awards revoke them for a lack of integrity? In the Olympics, medals are revoked when it is proven that the athlete took drugs, but how come we won't ...
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Empirical cases of kleptocracies [closed]
From the definition of kleptocracy:
a society whose leaders make themselves rich and powerful by stealing
from the rest of the people
And the definition of government:
the group of people with the ...
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What prevents a government from taxing its citizens living abroad?
South Africa recently introduced new legislation that means many citizens working abroad that were previously exempt from paying income tax are now required to do so. It is also common knowledge that ...
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Why don't more democratic countries reject all candidates if NOTA exceed candidates's votes?
Why don't more democratic countries have the option to allow voters to vote NOTA ("None of the above") and reject all candidates if NOTA exceed candidates's votes? Doing that would leave ...
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With Covid-19, what governments/societies pose the lowest restrictions for their people?
With Sweden being the obvious first choice, I wonder what other (specifically developed countries) governments/societies choose not to react to the virus in the "usual" extent (i.e. lock-...
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Did any major polluters take up any significant steps towards fulfilling the Paris Agreement?
Today is the day when the US will officially leave the Paris Agreement that was signed by Obama back in 2016. This is claimed to be a major setback for the Green movement in the US. But did any major ...
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How to find information about national export distribution discounting input imports?
I'm interested in the export distribution of the state I live in (specifically, it's Israel, but that's not the main point).
Now, there's definitely information about world states' distribution of ...
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Why is the agreement of the native country needed when sending back their citizen?
Following a recent murder of a teacher in France, the French government decided to send about 230 people back to their country (they were under surveillance by the French authorities for links to ...
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World Bank President Selection [closed]
The Wikipedia article for the World Bank Group states that:
"Traditionally, the Bank President has always been a U.S citizen nominated by the President of the United States, the largest ...
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Which directly elected official has received the most votes in a personal capacity?
In America, the president is indirectly elected, even though most voters' ballots would list the candidates by name. In 2016, Trump received 304 electoral votes. In parliamentary systems, the PM still ...
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Why does the US want Indo-Pacific Nations to become something such as NATO?
I am aware of the US-China Conflict on trade and further on and I am kind of being remembered of the cold war, the battle between the US and the USSR. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) was ...
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Why are American elections and politics receiving so much coverage in Canadian and European media?
I live in Canada, but I follow American politics to some degree, as do most of the people I know. However, I do it as a hobby and realize that American politics really don't have much of an effect on ...
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Why do many countries ban the sale of one's own blood?
According to this article (in Spanish) blood from people recovered from covid-19 is a millionaire's business, laboratories in US were paying up to thousands of dollars for blood from people who had ...
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Why does the US force citizens and US permanent residents located in countries with no and almost no COVID-19 cases to come back to the US?
I read on https://th.usembassy.gov/health-alert-u-s-embassy-bangkok-thailand-july-31-2020/ (mirror):
We will not issue visa extension letters for U.S. citizens who wish to stay in Thailand beyond ...
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Are there any other “Nine-dash lines” out there?
Wikipedia's Nine-dash Line says:
An early map showing a U-shaped eleven-dash line was published in the then-Republic of China on 1 December 1947. Two of the dashes in the Gulf of Tonkin were later ...
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Does anyone gather data on countries by *median* GDP/capita?
Lists of countries by GDP/capita suffer the problem of giving the mean value (i.e. the classical average, total GDP/population). This can lead to countries that have a few fantastically wealthy people ...
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Why does the IMF set its development models and economic policies behind closed doors?
Nobel laureate economist Joseph E. Stiglitz argues that, as a public
institution, the IMF should improve its own transparency by setting
its development models and economic policies through ...
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Have any local/national authorities conducted official reviews of historical landmarks?
Following the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol on June 7th, the renewed support for the "Rhodes must fall" campaign, targeting predominantly the statue of Cecil Rhodes at ...
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What did Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen actually say that it would do for “Hong Kongers”?
CNBC's Taiwan’s Tsai pledges support for people of Hong Kong after China proposes national security law begins:
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said late on Sunday that the self-ruled democratic ...
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Has the WHO or any individual countries released COVID-19 statistics divided on basis of sex?
In February 2019, the U.S.A released HIV statistics based on sex:
Have the WHO or any individual countries released COVID-19 statistics divided on this basis?
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Why did the Chinese government change their publicly-reported COVID-19 infection and death rates?
Until mid-April 2020, the Chinese government presented a certain set of figures regarding the infection and death rates from COVID-19 within China.
Many people questioned those figures, but had no ...
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Have any polls been conducted measuring support for the WHO?
In the past few weeks, we have seen some countries criticize the World Health Organization, particularly from Japan, and more recently the US President's withdrawal of WHO funding subject to a review.
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Is there any G7 cooperative response for COVID-19?
G7 is a community of the largest economies in the world, according to Wikipedia. Recently, there was a foreign ministers meeting, and then a rather abstract statement after.
I expected some ...
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Why have some governments banned outbound international flights in response to COVID-19?
Why have some governments banned outbound international flights in response to COVID-19?
For example, the Philippines initially announced (but later reversed) a ban on outbound flights:
Airports in ...
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Why was the World Health Organization against travel restrictions following the COVID-19 outbreak?
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization initially opposed countries instituting travel or trade restrictions. Example tweet, NPR article mentioning WHO's advice.
Why ...
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Why are Central Banks cutting interest rates in response to COVID-19?
Central Banks around the world have cut interest rates in the past few days in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the US Federal Reserve (0-0.25%), the Bank of England (0.1%), and the ...
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What is the rationale behind delaying the imposition of more radical Covid-19 countermeasures?
On March 3rd, the UK government released a publication detailing its Coronavirus action plan, which contains the four-stage plan that will be implemented throughout the country, in all four devolved ...
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What is the significance of the WHO characterising Covid-19 as a pandemic?
According to Reuters news agency, the Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference today (March 11th) that:
We are deeply concerned ...
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Has there been a random survey of a population for COVID-19?
Has the World Health Organisation (WHO) or any government anywhere conducted random tests for COVID-19?
It is announced today that in Britain they are going to step up the testing from 1,500 people ...
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What are the arguments for and against gender-neutral passports?
On March 10th, campaigner Christie Elan-Cane lost an case in the Court of Appeal against the UK government's policy that the "Sex" field on the British passport can only contain "M" or "F". The case ...
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Why are countries still introducing COVID-19 quarantines for travelers from affected regions, even though it's been proven they don't work?
Various governments seem to be playing whack-a-mole with travel restrictions and mandatory quarantines in the recent COVID-19 epidemic. First Chinese residents were banned from numerous countries. ...
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What is meant by the term “radical centrist”?
As I understand it currently, centrism is the stance that political decisions should be taken pragmatically, avoiding the advocacy of a "one size fits all" solution, combined with the aversion to ...
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Is the blocking of Heathrow's third runway the first time a national government has been held to an international climate agreement by the judiciary?
On the 27th of February, the UK Court of Appeal ruled that the government's decision to allow the expansion of Heathrow Airport was unlawful because the government had not taken its commitments made ...
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International political parties [duplicate]
Sinn Féin won the popular vote in the recent Irish general elections. As a British person, I'm also aware that Sinn Féin have MPs in Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom; a separate ...
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Was the death of the President of the Czech Senate a theme in the Taiwanese media?
See also connected question: How anticipated was visit of President of the Czech Senate in Taiwan?
As I am stating there, President of the Czech Senate Jaroslav Kubera was supposed to go on an ...
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How anticipated was visit of President of the Czech Senate in Taiwan?
Recently passed away president of the Senate of the Czech Republic Jaroslav Kubera was supposed to go to Taiwan this year to an official visit.
According to the Czech media (for example, XXXI edition ...
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How much of a threat is Al Qaeda in the 2020s?
I have been reading about al Qaeda and how support, even among extremists, for the terrorist group is waning and how they are losing recruits because they are failing to appeal to a younger generation ...
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Why did Iran recognize it's at fault on the Ukrainian plane? [closed]
Now there is a furor inside and outside of Iran. And some people now want their leader to step down. They could deny it forever. Now they having such backlash. Did they make it to put fault on US (...
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How many countries have single-payer healthcare with 0 copays and 0 deductibles?
Many 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates in the United States, including Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Andrew Yang, support a "Medicare for All" single payer healthcare system with zero ...
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Why did the U.S. forced Japan to stop its government subsidized VLSI project while it also had its own government subsidized VLSI project?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLSI_Project
On Japan's side, the government was concerned about a negative impact
on its relationship with the United States with regard to both
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Are countries other than the US concerned about preferred pronouns and how they relate to gender?
As an example of the level of discourse this issue has received in the U.S., in July 2019, NBC reported that three Democratic 2020 presidential candidates had added their pronouns to their twitter ...
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How [dis]similar are Trump's and Warren's (proposed) trade policies?
An AIER article says
Today Congress is statutorily impeded from stopping a continued march toward autarky, lest there appears some bipartisan legislation structured to take it back. The problem is ...
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What are the political or business connections of Parnas and Fruman in the former USSR countries?
From breaking news in the Guardian:
Two associates of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, have been charged with election finance violations for channeling foreign money into the president’...
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Does the FBI investigate social media accounts (on Twitter, Facebook etc.) for foreign influence?
As it turns out from a related question, the FBI has a Foreign Influence Task Force, which among other things does:
Private sector partnerships: The FBI considers strategic engagement with U.S. ...
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Can a country prevent another country from having access to its scientific infrastructure?
https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/55967145/a_3A100301651551420180305-1337-h7mebg.pdf
The Japanese have often been criticized for the lack of government
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