Word: sovereign
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...pursuit of a new life. The act of crossing the border without papers has become so commonplace—it is estimated that there are 5 million illegal Mexican immigrants in the U.S. at any given time—that many Mexicans see the ability to cross into another sovereign nation’s territory unfettered as a basic right...
...Mexico, there is outrage from the Mexican government and people. However, this anger is absurd and founded on ridiculous notions. Mexican citizens have no right to free movement between Mexico and the United States, and they must recognize that, while this may not serve their purposes, it is the sovereign right of the U.S. to enforce its laws...
This is why I find the current situation in Iran to be so truly troubling. President Ahmadinejad in particular seems to have been reading his history books; the vocabulary of legitimacy and sovereign rights figure prominently in his pronouncements defending Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. These sort of relativist arguments are plausible on one level—we have nuclear weapons after all—but fall apart when one notes the extreme paranoia and totalitarianism prevalent in the Iranian regime...
...Radwan Cairo Church in State Your article "The Cardinal's Virtues," about Camillo Cardinal Ruini's efforts to push Roman Catholic Church doctrine onto the Italian political agenda [Dec. 12], gave only a glimpse of a very unpleasant situation. I cannot help brooding over the unique condition of a sovereign state being host to another state on its soil. Italy is the host. The Vatican is the parasite. Not only does the Catholic Church obtain substantial financial aid and tax exemptions, but it also arrogates to itself the right to interfere with the policies of the Italian government. Every...
Catherine the Great once said that because of the size of the country, “the sovereign must be autocratic,” crystallizing the perennial Russian dilemma between authoritarian regimes and revolutions. Putin once deemed the fall of the Soviet Union the greatest political catastrophe of the century; the world hopes he won’t try to emulate what was lost under Mikhail Gorbachev. Gazprom’s New Year surprise, however, shows a future as dark as oil, and as volatile as natural...