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Intro -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- International Social Security Agreements -- Summary -- Introduction -- Main Purposes -- Eliminating Dual Social Security Taxation -- Filling Gaps in Social Security Coverage -- Other Goals -- Negotiation, Congressional Review, and Implementation -- Nature and Authority -- Legislative History of Section 233 of the Social Security Act -- Selection of Partner Countries -- Negotiation and Conclusion of Agreements -- Congressional Review of Agreements -- Implementation of Agreements -- Changes and Termination of Agreements -- Current Social Security Agreements -- Totalization Benefits -- Benefit Application Process -- Computation of Benefits -- Monitoring of Beneficiaries -- Effects of Agreements on Selected Provisions of the Social Security Act -- Waiver of the Alien Nonpayment Provision -- Legislative History of Payment Rules for Noncitizens -- Exemption from the Windfall Elimination Provision -- Application of a Work Test -- Qualification for Medicare Hospital Insurance -- Issues and Concerns -- Assessing Risks Associated with Future Agreements -- Determining Eligibility for Benefits under an Agreement -- Related Testimony by GAO and SSA in 2006 -- Status of SSA Initiatives in 2009 -- The Role of Congress -- Legislation in the 111th Congress -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Computation of the Social Security Primary Insurance Amount -- Appendix B. Exception Countries -- Social Insurance or Pension System Countries -- Treaty Obligation Countries -- Acknowledgments -- End Notes -- Social Security: Your Payments While You Are Outside the United States -- Introduction -- When You are "Outside the United States" -- What Happens to Your Right to Social Security Payments When You Are Outside the United States

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The Covid-19 pandemic has clearly highlighted the dangers of an economic globalization that has little respect for environmental standards and is always threatened by the belligerent actions of the great powers in the never-ending race for economic, strategic and political power. In this context, the Thucydides trap of world leadership between the United States and China cannot fail to worry the citizens of the world. At the same time, the threats of "rogue states" and terrorism have not disappeared. What then are the new forms of state power, but also what are the greatest threats shaking the world in the 21st century? Environmental and economic conflicts will be dangerous. The ecological and economic catastrophes (global warming, rare earths, transformation of production methods, excessive inequalities) are underway, close to the tipping point. The liberal economic system is not able to solve it, with the individual interest priority.

The Covid-19 pandemic has clearly highlighted the dangers of an economic globalization that has little respect for environmental standards and is always threatened by the belligerent actions of the great powers in the never-ending race for economic, strategic and political power. In this context, the Thucydides trap of world leadership between the United States and China cannot fail to worry the citizens of the world. At the same time, the threats of "rogue states" and terrorism have not disappeared. What then are the new forms of state power, but also what are the greatest threats shaking the world in the 21st century? Environmental and economic conflicts will be dangerous. The ecological and economic catastrophes (global warming, rare earths, transformation of production methods, excessive inequalities) are underway, close to the tipping point. The liberal economic system is not able to solve it, with the individual interest priority.

The Covid-19 pandemic has clearly highlighted the dangers of an economic globalization that has little respect for environmental standards and is always threatened by the belligerent actions of the great powers in the never-ending race for economic, strategic and political power. In this context, the Thucydides trap of world leadership between the United States and China cannot fail to worry the citizens of the world. At the same time, the threats of "rogue states" and terrorism have not disappeared. What then are the new forms of state power, but also what are the greatest threats shaking the world in the 21st century? Environmental and economic conflicts will be dangerous. The ecological and economic catastrophes (global warming, rare earths, transformation of production methods, excessive inequalities) are underway, close to the tipping point. The liberal economic system is not able to solve it, with the individual interest priority.