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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Banking & Business
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income tax
taxation
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Hanseatic League
German trading organization
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commodity trade
economics
Businesspeople & Entrepreneurs
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Anglo-Irish playwright
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Charles and David Koch
American businessmen
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Silvio Berlusconi
Italian media magnate and prime minister
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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bank
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marketing
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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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World Trade Organization
international trade
Law, Crime & Punishment
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Military
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Wehrmacht
armed forces of the Third Reich
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
United States policy
Politics & Political Systems
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liberalism
politics
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World Leaders
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presidency of the United States of America
United States government
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David Cameron
prime minister of United Kingdom
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Ronald Reagan
president of United States