Encyclopedia > Reciprocity

  Article Content

Reciprocity

In international relations and treaties, the principle of reciprocity states that favours, benefits, or penalties, granted by one state to the citizens of another, should be returned in kind.

For example, reciprocity has been used in reducing tariffs, granting copyrights to foreign authors, and relaxing travel restrictions and visa requirements.

See also: reciprocal



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Michael Barrymore

... 1952, is a British comedian famous for his variety shows. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. E ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 31.4 ms