There is, after all, no internationally agreed definition of what a university is supposed to do.
There are no internationally agreed upon definitions of terms like "citizenship" or "residence".
Second, there is no internationally accepted standardization of the biological materials known as reagents used in testing in different laboratories.
But there is no internationally accepted definition of terrorism, and not everyone agrees on who is a terrorist.
There is no internationally agreed target for peaking global emissions at present, let alone their rate of decline afterwards.
One of the problems of the debate is that there is no internationally agreed definition of what constitutes a lethal autonomous weapons system.
Much of the activity is in Asia, where there is no internationally known M.B.A. program but where thousands of students want the degree.
We don't yet know whether modern-dance companies, which, unlike ballet companies, have no internationally practiced language but are mounted on the personal technique of their founding choreographers, can survive the death of those founders.
For firms operating in the securities business, there are no internationally agreed minimum capital standards, although most national regulators impose rules of their own (as does the EU, through its capital-adequacy directive).
It was shot on a modest budget, and though adapted from a French-language play that was a commercial success in his native Quebec, it features no internationally known actors.
If the construction of the Ilısu hydroelectric dam continues as foreseen, 80% of Hasankeyf's historic monuments will be flooded within the next decade, yet there is no internationally recognised scheme for their conservation, preservation or relocation.
