Politics, Law & Government
The world today is divided territorially into more than 190 countries, each of which possesses a national government that claims to exercise sovereignty and seeks to compel obedience to its will by its citizens. Governments can be classified in any number of ways. For example, they might be classified by the number of rulers, thus distinguishing government by one (as in a monarchy or a tyranny) from government by the few (in an aristocracy or oligarchy) and from government by the many (as in a democracy). Governments can also be classified by mode of succession; for example, ascension to governmental leadership may follow the rules of hereditary succession, or it may be determined through elections or by force. Governments also vary in terms of the laws and rules of conduct that each political entity follows.
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international payment and exchange
International payment and exchange, respectively, any payment made by one country to another and the market in which national...
insurance
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Businesspeople & Entrepreneurs
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Nawaz Sharif
prime minister of Pakistan
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Donald Trump
45th president of the United States
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Indra Nooyi
American business executive
Economics & Economic Systems
Economic system, any of the ways in which humankind has arranged for its material provisioning. One would think that there would be a great variety of such systems, corresponding to the many cultural arrangements that have characterized human society.
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Sidney and Beatrice Webb
British economists
International Relations
International relations is the study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies, political parties, and interest groups). It is related to a number of other academic disciplines, including political science, geography, history, economics, law, sociology, psychology, and philosophy.
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Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg
American spies
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European Union
European organization
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Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
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Augustus
Roman emperor
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John Quincy Adams
6th president of the United States