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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What is the practical impact of recognising Palestine as a state?
A variety of Western countries have just recognised Palestine as a state.
What is the practical impact of that?
What's the difference between that and speaking in broad support of them. Or lightly ...
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What are the established theories on the dynamics between a state, its people and minorities?
I've been reading about Max Weber and Charles Tilly's theories on the monopoly of violence and state-making, but one big question mark in my head is the role of civil society.
From what I understand, &...
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Why is the United Kingdom often considered a country, but the European Union isn't?
United Kingdom is often considered a country
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly
known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,[m] is a country in
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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:
Feb 23, 2024
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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