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===Politics=== A double standard arises in [[politics]] when the treatment of the same political matters between two or more parties (such as the response to a public crisis or the allocation of funding) is handled differently.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Double Standards? |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/9588/chapter-abstract/156620309?redirectedFrom=fulltext |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=academic.oup.com}}</ref> Double standard policies can include situations when a country's or commentator's assessment of the same phenomenon, process or event in [[international relations]] depends on their relationship with or attitude to the parties involved.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ibrahimi |first=Ibrahim |date=1987 |editor-last=Chomsky |editor-first=Noam |title=Double-Standards in International Politics |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2536668 |journal=Journal of Palestine Studies |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=168β170 |doi=10.2307/2536668 |jstor=2536668 |issn=0377-919X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> In ''[[Harry's Game]]'' (1975), [[Gerald Seymour]] wrote: "One man's [[terrorist]] is another man's [[freedom fighter]]".<ref>{{Citation|last=Farooqi|first=Anis|title=Gujral, Satish|year=2003|work=Oxford Art Online|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t035630|isbn=9781884446054 }}</ref>
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