Questions tagged [sovereignty]
The authority of a state to govern itself or another state. Most often used to refer to other states attempting to limit the actions of another state.
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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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In Brexit, what does "not compromise sovereignty" mean?
In the Brexit negotiations there have been various pledges and demands that the final agreement will "not compromise [UK] sovereignty". E.g:
Brexit fishing fury: Boris warned fishing ...
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Shared Sovereignty vs Indivisible Sovereignty
I came across these two words, "Shared Sovereignty" and "Indivisible Sovereignty" in the book I was reading: From Plassey to Partition and After A History of Modern India. I will ...
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Has any person or company ever become a sovereign state?
How did they do it?
And are there any people or companies today who could become a sovereign state if they wanted to?
Could Jeff Bezos start his own country and become a sovereign state? How would ...
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Can the United Kingdom Legislature legislate anything it wants?
This question arises from an answer to a question here regarding Parliamentary Sovereignty. If the UK Parliament was to legislate for something, assuming it didn't violate international treaties etc., ...
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Is it possible for the UK Parliament to create a legally binding referendum?
Throughout the Brexit saga, one thing I’ve heard repeatedly is that due to the principle of parliamentary sovereignty, referendums are not legally binding:
Parliamentary sovereignty is a principle ...
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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
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Trade Agreements Approval Process EU vs UK
According to The Trade Justice Movement, the UK's current trade negotiation legislation (which hasn't been relevant for some time) means that only government approval (that is the executive) is ...
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Facing land grabbing issues, can we say China is a colonialist power or an imperialist one?
As far as China is doing Foreign Direct Investment to secure some resources, for instance in France with the Château Grand Moueys bought by the alcohol manufacturer Jin Chang Zang where 90% of the ...
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Do free trade agreements involve the pooling of sovereignty?
A bilateral trade deal.
Tariffs on goods are mostly eliminated and mutual recognition agreements are agreed for most goods.
Has sovereignty been transferred or pooled?
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What are the objective minimum prerequisites for people of African descent in the Americas to form of an independent modern sovereign nation-state? [duplicate]
There are several questions and answers at Politics SE which address parts of the premise of this question, including
What are the steps to become an independent country once independence has been ...
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What level of control does Serbia maintain over Kosovo, if any?
Partially recognized states have wide varieties of levels of independence from the states that they declare themselves separate from, ranging from Taiwan having its own armed forces to Palestine not ...
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Can a Western democracy prevent private groups from using the country’s name/purporting to represent that country e.g. at the World Cup?
In this question about countries boycotting the World Cup, it was pointed out in several answers, quite correctly, that the national football leagues in question aren’t government agencies and the ...
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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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Why do monarchs claiming titles not related to their countries not cause political tensions?
This question is a partial migration from a History SE question, where I asked how come the Spanish King claims titles that are obviously not within his grasp (the original example, King of Hungary ...
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