Questions tagged [foreign-interference]
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What's the point of Israel doing some astroturfing in the US, when there are plenty of US citizens and US lobby groups willing to support it anyway?
The NYT reports:
The campaign began in October and remains active on the platform X. At its peak, it used hundreds of fake accounts that posed as real Americans on X, Facebook and Instagram to post ...
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Is Ecuador v. Mexico the first 'elections interference' case at the ICJ?
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Ecuador also accused Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of interfering in Ecuadorian politics, by making “false and injurious statements” that questioned the legitimacy of last year’...
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Is there any benefit in allowing foreign lobbying in a country?
Despite calling for a ban on foreign lobbying, in which Americans
lobby lawmakers and the public for foreign interests, Republican 2024
presidential hopeful Nikki Haley has raised tens of thousands of
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What can the US do to enforce their sanctions and extraterritorial judgment?
The US famously uses acts like FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act), or the OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) to indirectly get industrial assets (like Alstom that got bought by GE after a 700 ...
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Has China been caught trying to manipulate the elections in other countries than Taiwan?
Although senior Taiwan officials, including the head of the National
Security Council, Wellington Koo, have this year warned that China
could try to sway the presidential and legislative elections ...
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Does social media exacerbate political meddling?
On the back of a previous (now-closed) question: What makes the West susceptible to political interference and foreign meddling?
There has always been a baseline degree to which states seek to ...
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What makes the West susceptible to political interference and foreign meddling? [closed]
There's a frequently expressed sentiment that Putin has been bankrolling all the bad things in Western politics in recent years.
For example:
Why does Russia specifically fund far-rights in Europe?
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Democratic countries that limit the ability of foreign governments to influence their politics
Are there any clearly democratic countries that limit the ability of foreign governments, to openly influence their internal politics?
What about implementing special laws for that purpose?
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How exactly could a TikTok ban be enforced?
Let's say TikTok is banned tomorrow by Congress. How would they be able to actually enforce the ban, assuming TikTok refused to cooperate?
They could definitely convince Apple and Google to remove it ...
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Can Rahul Gandhi ask other democratic nations to intervene in their democracy?
Rahul Gandhi a sitting Member of Parliament of India who went to London and asked Europe and USA to intervene in what he sees as the collapse of democracy in India, which is a sovereign nation.
Isn't ...
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Does Germany have a law on foreign influence agents (similar to the US' or Russia's)? Or proposals for something like that?
It seems it's perfectly legal in Germany for parliamentarians to have their trips sponsored by a foreign country. And likewise for more run-of-the-mill influencers, e.g. rally organizers.
So, I'm ...
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Why didn't Russia intervene in the Ukrainian elections?
If we accept Russia's constant meddling in US elections for a fact, and also accept that the efforts were successful, then a question arises as to why Russia couldn't or wouldn't want to prevent ...
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Is there any proof of foreign interference in Ukraine's 2004 or 2010 presidential elections?
There has been polarization between moving towards Russia or the West in Ukrainian politics. There have also been allegations of election interference from both sides along these lines.
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Is there any evidence that the US interfered in, or contributed to, the events which resulted 2014 Ukranian President's loss of power?
In 2014, the then Ukrainian president Yanukovitch absconded the country, and de facto (although not de jure) abdicated power after the protests against him turned violent.
A certain phone call, ...
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Does Russia intervene more on the world stage than its peers?
Follow-up question to Fizz's comment in this question.
"their foreign policy tends to be non-interventionist". Except in neighboring countries Georgia (2008), Ukraine (2014+) and where they ...
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