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| What is the Sharia controversy? |
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| Sharia is a centuries-old body of law based on the Quran and other Islamic religious texts. It governs many aspects of a Muslim's daily life, such as marriage and inheritance. But it is also used in some Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia as a basis for punishments, including amputations and stoning women accused of adultery. |
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| Why does Iran seem to want nuclear weapons? |
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Definition
| Power should be dispersed among the people where they can keep it under control. |
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| How has America exercised power in Afghanistan? |
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Definition
| American has had power in Afghanistan, but as they pulled out, they have had trouble. |
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| Who are the major recipients of foreign aid? |
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Definition
| Afghanistan and Iraq. Before the Iraq war, it was Israel. |
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| What has been Pakistan's view on terrorism groups? |
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Definition
| Various shades of radical political Islam colour, indeed define, the Pakistani identity and nation, even as the country is positioned at the heart of contemporary Islamist terrorism. Extremist Islam is, and has long been, the state’s principal tool of internal political mobilisation and of external projection in an extraordinary and audacious enterprise of strategic overextension. |
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| What is realism as an approach to world politics? |
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| Realism is the view that world politics is driven by competitive self-interest |
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| Why has the U.S. sought to have relations with Afghanistan? |
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Definition
| Because it is close to Pakistan, and because The U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement, officially entiteled the "Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the United States of America"[23], provides the long-term framework for the relationship between Afghanistan and the United States of America after the drawdown of U.S. forces in the Afghanistan war. |
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| What constitutes security? |
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| is the degree of protection to safeguard a nation, union of nations, persons or person against danger, damage, loss, and crime |
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