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Compact as used in politics may refer broadly to a pact or treaty; in more specific cases it may refer to: * Interstate compact * Blood compact, an ancient ritual of the Philippines * Compact government, a type of colonial rule utilized in British North America * Compact of Free Association whereby the sovereign states of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau have entered into as associated states with the United States. * Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of Plymouth Colony * United Nations Global Compact * Global Compact for Migration, a UN non-binding intergovernmental agreement Mathematics * Compact element, those elements of a partially ordered set that cannot be subsumed by a supremum of any directed set that does not already contain them * Compact operator, a linear operator that takes bounded subsets to relatively compact subsets, in functional analysis * Compact space, a topological space such th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pact
A pact, from Latin ''pactum'' ("something agreed upon"), is a formal agreement between two or more parties. In international relations, pacts are usually between two or more sovereign states. In domestic politics, pacts are usually between two or more political parties or other organizations. Notable international pacts include: * Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany and Japan (1936) * Auto Pact between Canada and the United States (1965) * Bretton Woods Pact made stable financial and commercial relations viable between United States, Canada, Western European countries, Australia, and Japan (after 1944) * Kellogg–Briand Pact, a multilateral treaty against war (1928) * London Debt Agreement between London and Germany was a debt relief pact (1953) * London Pact between Italy and the Triple Entente (Great Britain, France, and Russia) (1915) * Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union (1939) * Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact (1941) * North Atlantic pact, org ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact (American Magazine)
''Compact'' is an American online magazine that began operating in March 2022. The magazine was co-founded by Marxist populist Edwin Aponte, former editor of the conservative ecumenical journal '' First Things'', Matthew Schmitz, and conservative opinion journalist Sohrab Ahmari. ''The New York Times'' describes the magazine's editors as being ideologically diverse, including religiously conservative Catholics, populists and dissident Marxist feminists. The magazine's editorial line is critical of liberalism from both the left and the right. Planning for the launch of the magazine began in 2020 between Ahmari and Schmitz, who later incorporated Aponte on the condition that half of the site's content cover " material concerns". ''Compact'' launched without a paywall for its first few weeks and is now run on a reader-funded model, requiring a paid subscription to access all of the articles on the site. The magazine includes columnists such as Christopher Caldwell, Lee S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |