Questions tagged [statehood]
Questions about the status of being an independent country or sub-national unit. If discussing a sub-national unit, the relevant country-specific tag should also be used.
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Why have Norway, Ireland and Spain only now recognised the Palestinian state?
Recently, according to a BBC article, Norway, Spain and Ireland have recognised Palestine as a state:
Ireland, Norway, and Spain have announced they will formally recognise a Palestinian state from ...
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How is a Palestinian State to be recognized by Spain defined?
The talks about two-state solution came up several times since Oct. 7 but last Tuesday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez stated that Spain will recognize the Palestinian Statehood by July this ...
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Have other countries said what they'd do if Ethiopia recognizes Somaliland's indepedence?
Reuters:
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Landlocked Ethiopia agreed a memorandum of understanding on Jan. 1 to lease 20 km (12 miles) of coastline in Somaliland - a territory that Somalia says it owns, even though the ...
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Why are so few countries willing to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states?
However, the role nationalism might have played in the Russia–Georgia
War of August 2008 has been largely ignored. One of the most
influential authors on the conflict, Ronald Asmus, did argue that ‘‘...
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Is alternative notion of "state" emerging (or already exists) in the Middle East?
Various national liberation movements usually aim at statehood in Western terms: recognition by the major powers, UN membership, accepting the international accords (like the Geneva Conventions and ...
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Why are Eastern European countries more likely to recognize Palestine as a state than Western European countries?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine#/media/File:Palestine_recognition_only.svg
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Why are states formed by nations? [closed]
Why are states formed by nations, instead of people's "spectrum" (left or right, LGBT or not, and so on)?
Even for states formed by immigrants (e.g. USA), spectra of folks have drastic ...
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Can a US state opt to become a territory without leaving the nation as a whole?
This relates to an item legislated by the Texas republican party recently. Overlooking the more regressive and dangerous items, and the frivolous and inconsequential items, they are also throwing the ...
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Can the Federal Government Revoke Statehood?
Is this possible? Texas v. White says that states cannot unilaterally secede, but not that they cannot be kicked out. The Constitution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admission_to_the_Union#Text)
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Are all countries nation states?
Why are most countries nations, even when they have multiple ethnic groups with national aspirations ? For e.g. Russia.
I believe as Pierre Elliot Trudeau did, the nation must not be the basis of the ...
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The next steps for S.51 Washington Statehood bill
The proposed Washington, D.C. Admission Act (S.51) would, if I understand it correctly, pave the way for the immediate election of two senators from the new Douglass Commonwealth state. In all ...
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Why doesn't US recognize Palestine as a separate state?
What is the reason for US not even recognizing the State of Palestine?
I would understand if it vetos resolutions that favour Palestine - but I can't comprehend why it doesn't recognize it as a ...
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D C statehood timeline
Let's assume DC statehood passes Congress this summer. How soon after that could it have elections for House and Senate? How soon could those members be seated? Would they need a state constitution ...
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What would it take for the District of Columbia to be made a state?
It seems the Biden administration supports the recognition of the District of Columbia as another US state. This raises the question of what will it take for this to happen?
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What's the difference between declaring sovereignty and declaring independence?
What's the difference between declaring sovereignty and declaring independence? Aren't those the same thing? Please help me make sense of the following sentence (but keep in mind that my question is ...
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