HPV vaccination in Latin America: Coverage status, implementation challenges and strategies to overcome it by Angélica Nogueira-Rodrigues, Matheus Gonçalves Flores, Avelar Oliveira Macedo Neto, Lucélia Antunes Coutinho Braga, Carolina Martins Vieira, Renata Maria de Sousa-Lima, Diocésio Alves Pinto de Andrade, Karime Kalil Machado, Andrea Paiva Gadelha Guimarães

“…Data from the nineteen sovereign states of LATAM (comprised of all Portuguese and Spanish-speaking nations located south of the United States) were collected, including year of HPV vaccine implementation, gender and age targets, the number of doses included in the public program and coverage by dose. …”
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Françafrique and Ethics in International Relations by Vasily Rudolfovich Filippov

“…It is concluded that the post-war policy of the former metropolis in the now sovereign states of Africa has led not only to the corrupting of dependent African leaders, but also to the corrupt decay of the leaders of the French political system.…”
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Disintegration Through Law? by Enzo Cannizzaro

“…It may mark the return to a Europe of sovereign States and the definite disappearance of the notion of a European public interest, of which we are in desperate need.…”
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Unrecognized States of the Post-Soviet Space: Problems and Prospects by Z. Z. Bakhturidze, N. A. Vasilyeva

“…The difficulties of political integration and the difficulties of resolving frozen conflicts, in particular, due to the lack of a full-fledged dialogue between all parties to the conflict, are highlighted.The article is valuable as an analytical material for practical use by agencies and organizations involved in the development of political content in theSouth Caucasusregion.The authors conclude that in the issue of the existence of unrecognized States of the post-Soviet space, the time factor is essential because in these territories new generations of people are born who perceive themselves as full-fledged citizens of sovereign States.…”
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Putin and Chaos (How Chaos Theory is Interpreted in the Kremlin) by Ihor Rushchenko, Nataliya Zubar

“…The analysis of Russian sources shows that the “managed chaos” tactic is understood as a politics of deep invasion in the internal affairs of the sovereign states, subversive operations, economic and diplomatic pressure, interference in the electoral process, political corruption, information interventions, the formation of the fifth column and any kinds of destructive measures. …”
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Strategic and legal aspects of the combat use of drones in the US counterterrorist operations by Jović Željko

“…Terrorist organizations are not burdened with the rules and regulations of a sovereign state and its members can freely move across state borders, operate in different parts of the world, enabling them to plan, organize and execute objectives and tasks. …”
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Conflict perspectives in analyzing and understanding organizational behavior by Mohd. Nain, Ahmad Shukri

“…The decade opened opportunities and led to a societal confusion that we now recognize as signaling the end of an era, the end of a millennia, the ends of the cold war and sovereign states. The changes were massive, they affected the meaning of power. …”
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A globális kormányzás szükségszerűsége és lehetséges modellje egy policentrikus rendszerben by György Marosán

“…The international system of sovereign states has undergone fundamental changes in the recent decades. …”
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Estimating Sudan Nile Water Withdrawals During the 20th Century Using a Water Balance Approach by Woods, Natalie Elaina

“…The Nile Basin boundaries define the catchment area for the longest river in the world, which is shared by 11 sovereign states, each with a varying amount of power in basin water negotiations. …”
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Evolution of the activities of states as reflected in legal and political Teachings by A. A. Klishin

“…As a result, the customary and efficient forms and contractual relations in international law are being re- placed with the ideas of “global law” or “supranational law” based on the intent to implement the “denationalization” of law by way of submitting the legal systems of some sovereign states to the will of international institutions. …”
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Overraskelser kommer sjelden alene. Om misforståelser, myter og invasjonen av Ukraina by Torbjørn Knutsen

“…Among the chief reasons for the surprise were simplistic preconceptions – entrenched beliefs and routine views that upheld easy assumptions about the behaviour of sovereign states. Some of those preconceptions have been cultivated by the so-called neorealist approach to international relations. …”
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Information Interference as a Phenomenon of the Contemporary International Policy Subjects Activity by Sergey V. Volodenkov

“…This circumstance leads the author to the conclusion that it is necessary to form international institutions capable of preventing and regulating information conflicts in the Internet space, as well as reducing global political risks (including risks associated with potential interference in the electoral process of sovereign states). The implementation of this scenario will allow forming a collective responsibility in the functioning of the global Internet.…”
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OECD and deoffshorization of microstates of Europe by M. B. Alimova-Nefedova

“…The most successful examples include the OECD adopting the International Standards for the Exchange of Tax Information (Tax Information Exchange Agreements) in 2009, the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Program in 2013 (which has become its most significant and successful initiative), the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement in 2014, as well as the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting in 2016, and others.However, in Europe the OECD was forced to face a situation where not only member states or specific territories that are in one form or another directly dependent on said states served as offshore zones, but also small (micro) sovereign states that were not its members. The microstates of Europe ended up resisting the OECD's anti-offshore activities for quite a while, since the high profitability of the offshore business made these states accustomed to getting “easy” money, and their population – to the high standard of living, which was largely provided for by these funds. …”
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TO THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS by N. I. Mustafayeva

“…The article analyzes national judicial practice of sovereign states and the International Court of Justice in order to identify the possibility of such recognition. …”
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Marine heat waves in the Mediterranean Sea: An assessment from the surface to the subsurface to meet national needs by Hugo Dayan, Ronan McAdam, Mélanie Juza, Simona Masina, Sabrina Speich

“…The variability of surface and subsurface MHWs is assessed over the 1987-2019 period in the Mediterranean EEZs, which are ocean areas where sovereign states have special rights. Combining high-resolution satellite observations and a regional reanalysis, sea surface temperature and ocean heat content are used to define surface and subsurface MHWs. …”
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The Method of Situation Analysis of International Relations as A Forecasting Tool Under Conditions of Transforming World Order by V. G. Baranovsky, I. Ya. Kobrinskaya, S. V. Utkin, B. E. Frumkin

“…These cases are small but important illustrations of global changes in both the internal life of sovereign states and the relations between them. The post-bipolar world obviously goes through a transformation, which many assess in terms of a multipolar or polycentric world order. …”
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Recentering the human in the continuums of in/mobility and in/security: Perceptions from two emblematic borders by Anitta Kynsilehto, Angel Iglesias Ortiz

“…We have brought together insights from our respective research projects to address border externalization and its impact in two different parts of the world, enacted by two different states (the US) and supranational entities (the EU) on their neighbors to the South, likely to be economically and politically less powerful but supposedly similarly sovereign states. The paper is organized as follows: we begin the first section by discussing the key notion of state sovereignty which is enacted at the border and demonstrate how borders of certain states extend far beyond their demarcated territories. …”
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THE WATER ISSUE IN IRAN-AFGHANISTAN RELATIONS by ARMEN ISRAYELYAN

“…Iran and Afghanistan, as sovereign states, first began direct talks to resolve the water issue at the beginning of the 1970s. …”
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The Defeat of Multiculturalism over Nationalism and Religion: Transformation of Immigration Policies in Denmark and Sweden by Zuhal Karakoç Dora, Zahide Erdoğan

“…Since the Treaty of Westphalia, sovereign states have combined national security with border security, as border is accepted as the line of sovereignty that separates “us” from “others”. …”
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Long-term burden of war injuries among civilians in LMICs: case of the July 2006 war in Lebanon by Elsa Kobeissi, Marilyne Menassa, Gladys Honein-AbouHaidar, Gladys Honein-AbouHaidar, Nassim El Achi, Zahi Abdul-Sater, Theresa Farhat, Dalia Al Mohtar, Marwan Hajjar, Rima A. Abdul-Khalek, Bachar F. Chaya, Ahmad Elamine, Shehan Hettiaratchy, Shehan Hettiaratchy, Ghassan Abu-Sittah

“…IntroductionLebanon, a country located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, is one of the world’s smaller sovereign states. In the past few decades, Lebanon endured a perpetual political turmoil and several armed conflicts. …”
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