Questions about the relationships, agreements or interactions between countries. May also be used for questions relating to international organisations like the United Nations.
Questions tagged [international-relations]
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How is it possible to travel to countries that don't recognize the issuing country of one's passport?
Sort of a follow-up question to one of my previous questions.
The idea is that the UK does not recognize the Islamic State as a country, therefore they cannot just revoke Shamina Begum's citizenship by saying she's a citizen of IS. From the UK's…
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Has it become more difficult to formally settle international disputes?
From 19th century until soon after WWII, major disputes between the countries would typically see a quick de jure settlement once the hostilities (if any) came to a halt and a certain de facto status quo was achieved:
Wars would end with peace…
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Why are important summits held in big cities?
The G20 summit will be hold in my current home city, Hamburg in
about a week.
One acquaintance of me asked in my opinion a very good question:
Why exactly are summits hold in big cities at all?
Megacities are absolutely the worst places to hold up…
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Are there any contemporary (1990+) examples of appeasement in the diplomatic politics or is this a thing of the past?
I stumbled across the appeasement concept (a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict) and noticed that all examples are from a rather old past:
Spanish Civil War (1936 -…
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What consequences are there for withdrawing an ambassador?
Is the withdrawal of an ambassador, such as has happened to Indonesia, a purely symbolic action, or does it have practical effects?
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Is there any precedent for refusing to withdraw an ambassador on grounds of illegitimacy?
Is there any precedent for this?
We welcome interim President Guaido’s directive to all diplomatic missions in Venezuela that Venezuela intends to maintain diplomatic relations with all countries. The United States maintains diplomatic relations…
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Why world leaders these days still meet each other face to face?
These days, technology is advanced enough to allow secure video calls with 4K quality between any two people around the world. In those virtual conferences, they can discuss anything in total privacy, on secure channels, while seeing each other as…
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Does the Chagos Islands sovereignty dispute cover all of the British Indian Ocean Territory, or a subset of it?
Part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) are the Chagos Islands, which are claimed by Mauritius. See Chagos Archipelago sovereignty dispute for more information.
Does this dispute cover all of BIOT, or only a subset of it? In other words:…
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Can a country require all of its foreign diplomats to get vaccinated?
Can a country require all of its foreign diplomats to get vaccinated? And is there a mechanism that insures this is done properly for both parties?
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Has a state ever apologized and reversed its decision of expelling diplomats of a foreign country?
Britain has recently begun a campaign to expel Russian diplomats from Europe. But let's say tomorrow new evidence shows up proving that Russia wasn't involved - the UK would certainly be in a bad position and might be forced to apologize if they…
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What norms are followed when one president (or head of state) calls another?
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I often read news which says one president or prime minister calls a president or prime minister of another country.
I assume the process is something like: someone (maybe a secretary) schedules the phone call. Once allowed the party…
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Is it possible to study International Relations without focusing on game theory?
International Relations is currently under the culture of positivism, but the opposition to that culture remains significant. Post-positivists and anti-positivists criticizes the positivists belief that - we can study state behavior scientifically,…
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Some questions about current state of the former republics of Yugoslavia
1-Are there tensions nowadays between the former yugoslavian republics?
2-What is the current political economic and social state of modern former Yugoslavian republics?
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Joint letters by foreign diplomats to Pakistan
Foreign envoys urge Pakistan to condemn Russian invasion of Ukraine during the emergency UNGA session
Some foreign diplomats put out a joint letter to the Pakistani government so that Pakistan condemns the Russian invasion.
I have two questions…
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Is there a cost for a country to explicitly recognize another commonly recognized country without political disagreement?
Wikipedia mentions 12 UN members not yet explicitly recognizing Montenegro, and 7 UN members not having diplomatic relationship with Croatia. At first, I thought this is something about Montenegro and Croatia themselves, but Bhutan, appearing in…
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