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Of course, multiculturalism’s more thoughtful advocates never imagined that a cultural community could or should substitute for a political community.
But at the moment that multiculturalism’s advocates were making this suggestion, Dutch society was undergoing a dramatic transition.
Advocates of sanctions argue that they are having a crippling effect on the Iranian economy.
The crisis that I discussed with heads of state from France, Senegal, and Norway, along with leaders from the United Nations and global education advocates, is not an abstract problem unfolding in a distant land.
During the last few years, a lively debate has taken place between advocates of economic and political/social explanations of populism.
Obviously, if this military adventure were in fact necessary to maintain security or to preserve freedom, as its advocates and promoters proclaim--and if it were to prove as successful as its boosters hope--then the cost might still be worth it.
The path marked out by the deficit hawks and austerity advocates both weakens the economy today and undermines future prospects.
US President Barack Obama has become one of the most prominent global advocates of abolishing nuclear weapons, a position for which he unexpectedly received a Noble Peace Prize last year.
The administration’s policies strive to address the aspirations of global disarmament advocates in several ways.
Whereas advocates of abolishing nuclear weapons wanted his administration to employ a zero-based approach to nuclear planning, with the burden of proof on those seeking to retain nuclear weapons to fulfill essential military functions, the NPR presumes the continuation of current nuclear roles and missions unless convincing arguments exist to end them.
And the cure for that maldistribution does not lie just in the sizeable wealth taxes that Piketty advocates.
Powerful tools like genetic modification and, especially, gene-drive technology spark the imagination of anyone with an agenda, from the military (which could use them to make game-changing bio-weapons) to well-intentioned health advocates (which could use them to help eradicate certain deadly diseases).
The risks are too obvious for gene-drive advocates to risk talking about them.
Before, advocates of leaving the EU or euro could be ridiculed as fantasists or denounced as fascists (or ultra-leftists).
In 2015, United Nations member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which call for recognizing, reducing, and redistributing unpaid care work – a measure long proposed by feminist economists and gender-equality advocates.
By suggesting that Germany choose between Eurobonds or leaving the euro, he effectively advocates the euro's destruction.
As anti-sweatshop and human rights advocates in places like Malaysia and South China understand, no regime of rights is possible without hearing from workers, whose voices will remain silent unless some institution protects them from the consequences of speaking up.
Nonetheless, advocates argue that the clear economic advantages of such a confederation – which would include a free-trade zone and joint economic ventures – could prove tempting enough to all sides to put the idea on more solid footing.
Advocates suggest that there is a significant “energy-efficiency gap”: governments and businesses have overlooked and forgone investments that could significantly reduce energy consumption at low cost.
Among the most prominent advocates of MFFP is Adair Turner, whose latest book, Between Debt and the Devil, provides an insightful thought experiment on the use of helicopter money.
Turner and his fellow MFFP advocates seem to believe that placing more money in the hands of the public is practically always welcome.
Those seeking closer economic integration have a special responsibility to be strong advocates of global governance reforms: If authority over domestic policies is ceded to supranational bodies, then the drafting, implementation, and enforcement of the rules and regulations has to be particularly sensitive to democratic concerns.
Advocates of cutting the Gordian knot between private and public finance recognize that governments’ approach to banks must change radically if this separation is to work.
While nuclear energy’s advocates often claim that there have been only two major calamities, a very different picture emerges if we consider other “accidents” that caused loss of human life or significant property damage.
Schmitt advocates a global order that universalizes the Monroe doctrine: great nations stake out inviolable zones of geographic influence, or Grossraum, from which they afford each other mutual respect.
Trump advocates an international order of normative pluralism, non-intervention, and deal-making.
Many human-rights advocates believe that large-scale abuses – like the killings of an enormous number of noncombatants that took place in Sri Lanka – can be addressed only through criminal prosecution of those with the highest level of responsibility.
The current preference for inaction, while perhaps understandable, threatens to lead to precisely the outcomes that its advocates want to avoid.
But the rule is that governments should run surpluses and not deficits, so various American presidents’ economic advisers have been advocates of aiming for budget surpluses except in times of slack demand and threatening depression.
Give people the incentives to plan for their future, ownership-society advocates argue, and they will.
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