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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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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What happens to the national debt if a country breaks apart? [duplicate]
How does the debt get split up when a country breaks up?
If, for example, Quebec were to separate from Canada, Quebec would probaly argue that it has no obligation to repay the debts to the Canadian ...
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Why is there so much division in recognizing Kosovo as a sovereign state?
I find the phenomenon curious, that all other countries that don't have recognition as sovereign states by other countries fall into two categories:
Only recognized by a small number of countries (or ...
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Why did the EU and USA really impose sanctions on Zimbabwe?
The EU and USA first imposed economic sanctions against Zimbabwe in 2002. After that these sanctions have been renewed on a regular basis.
What was the root cause of these sanctions?
What is the ...
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Does using the word "state" imply questioning the status of the region as a country?
Inspired by the question asking for the difference between these two words.
I used to write "the Baltic States", simply using the words I have previously seen somewhere and was usually ...
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Can a private citizen host a military base of another country?
The question is just this:
Can a private citizen of a given country host a military base of another country on his private property?
This might be especially important if this property is close to ...
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Does a country in a, nominal or actual, civil war lose credibility when it's unable to control its territorial waters? e.g. Taiwan, Gibraltar possibly [closed]
In every historical case since the establishment of the UN, when warships freely sail within the territorial waters of a country without prior approval, it was seen as a challenge to the authority and ...
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Is there any theory regarding a colony's natural evolution into independence?
From a layman's perspective, it seems that the fate of most colonies is to evolve into an independent nation. At least those colonies that are, at a particular point in human technological evolution, ...
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Can a country sell part of its land to become a new country?
Let's say someone (an individual or corporation) had enough money, could they buy an area of land and establish it as their own country?
Assuming the original country was willing to surrender this ...
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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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Can a country block its airspace to international civil flights without any reason?
Suppose, a country 'X''s civil airline wants to fly to another country 'Z'. There are three routes. However, the shortest route is 1000km which is through country 'Y'.
Can the country 'Y' block its ...
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How high must a craft fly in order to not be in foreign airspace?
When flying over another country's airspace, the laws of that country apply. Alcohol, for example, can be banned on certain flights due to international recognition of a foreign power's rights.
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Has Russia recognized land currently held by Ukraine as sovereign territory of the LPR/DPR?
In the context of the recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic by Russia, I cannot seem to find whether the territories of said republics correspond only to what ...
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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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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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