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In which areas has national autonomy become weaker, and to what extent and in which areas has national autonomy become stronger? (Sovereign States)
For more than a decade some academics and political actors have been declaring that the sovereign state is just about dead. The reality is that the states are still here and it doesn’t seem that they ...
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Can a country be only de jure sovereign ? (Such as Andorra)
The Principality of Andorra is de jure “a parliamentary co-principality with the president of France and the Catholic bishop of Urgell (Catalonia, Spain) as co-princes.” (From Wikipedia)
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Why wasn't the supremacy of EU law codified?
Robert Schütze. European Union Law 2 ed. 2018. p. 121.
When the Union was born, the European Treaties did not expressly state
the supremacy of European law.8
8The 2004 ...
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Can a living being claim themselves as a sovereign nation? [duplicate]
This question is inspired by this question on Worldbuilding.SE. Please take it with the imaginative grain of salt that is WB.SE. To summarize, the question introduces landmass sized sentient nonhuman ...
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Is a cyber attack a violation of sovereignty?
Following debate on this answer about what constitutes a violation of sovereignty. I'm asking this as an independent question.
Under current international law, does a cyber attack constitute as a ...
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Are ships in international waters considered the flag states territory?
Are ships flagged under state (A) considered the territory or under the sovereignty of (A)?
Is boarding such a ship by a state (B) which is not the same as (A) when (B) has an illegal blockade in ...
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What reasons does Argentina have to participate in US court proceedings against it in the debt crisis?
Argentina defaulted and restructured its sovereign debt in 2005 and again in 2010. Roughly 93% of bondholders accepted repayments of around 30% of the face value of the bonds. Some of the hold-outs ...