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Structuring confederal arrangements around collective equality does not mean the parties must come to negotiations with identical capacities.
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Omar M. Dajani, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2024
Each state would have authority over its own internal security, but confederal institutions would facilitate close cooperation and intelligence sharing between each side’s policing entities.
—Omar M. Dajani, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2024
If this effort is successful, the Kurds will be better served by remaining part of a functioning federal or confederal Iraq than by being outside of it.
—Galip Dalay, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2017
That’s because member states worry that if the rules are too strict, platforms would respond by shrinking their platform workforce, says Ludovic Voet, confederal secretary at the European Trade Union Confederation.
—WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
In 1999, Belarus and Russia signed a treaty that committed them to merging into a confederal state at some future point.
—New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
Two-state solutions, one-state solutions, confederal arrangements with Jordan or even Jordan and Syria—nothing has worked.
—Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 17 May 2021
What amount to marks the city councils have ordered the removal of confederal monuments from public spaces, removing history altogether, rather than allowing the next generation to see it, interpret it and yes, debate it.
—Fox News, 27 June 2018
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Omar M. Dajani, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2024
Each state would have authority over its own internal security, but confederal institutions would facilitate close cooperation and intelligence sharing between each side’s policing entities.
—Omar M. Dajani, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2024
If this effort is successful, the Kurds will be better served by remaining part of a functioning federal or confederal Iraq than by being outside of it.
—Galip Dalay, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2017
That’s because member states worry that if the rules are too strict, platforms would respond by shrinking their platform workforce, says Ludovic Voet, confederal secretary at the European Trade Union Confederation.
—WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
In 1999, Belarus and Russia signed a treaty that committed them to merging into a confederal state at some future point.
—New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
Two-state solutions, one-state solutions, confederal arrangements with Jordan or even Jordan and Syria—nothing has worked.
—Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 17 May 2021
What amount to marks the city councils have ordered the removal of confederal monuments from public spaces, removing history altogether, rather than allowing the next generation to see it, interpret it and yes, debate it.
—Fox News, 27 June 2018
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“Confederal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/confederal. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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