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This is the hubris of believing that brute force and threats, rather than actual negotiation, can yield solutions.
All want to take part in the growth and solidarity of a Europe where democracy and respect are the ruling civic concepts, not brute military power.
Rather than trying to ease dissatisfaction or attempt reconciliation, Arab governments are using brute force to shut down every possible space for dissent or debate.
If these liberal democracies – which do wield their share of soft power – remain passive, the international order will continue to weaken, potentially to the point that it is shaped primarily by brute force, rather than diplomacy, cooperation, or the rule of law.
But Ukraine’s ability to resist, and the international community’s ability to prevent brute force from having free rein, depends on whether world leaders understand that appeasement begets only further aggression.
What the United Nations calls the "century of urbanization" will require creativity and imagination, innovations and not brute brick walls or even more subtle security frontiers.
Regardless of how this crisis develops from this point, the UN has neglected its duties by asking a wimp to lead the inspectors who are supposed to stand up to the brute of Baghdad.
After decades of cynical and often secret interventions by the US, Britain, France, Russia, and other outside powers, the region’s political institutions are based largely on corruption, sectarian politics, and brute force.
As Sylvia Plath, the daughter of a German father, put it in her poem “Daddy”: “Every woman adores a Fascist/The boot in the face, the brute/Brute heart of a brute like you.”
Liberals are most needed when compromises have to be made, but not nearly as useful when faced with brute force.
And no amount of European male panache can mask Putin’s inner brute.
The reason is brute economics: the government cannot afford it.
In other words, they now use Big Data, rather than brute force, to ensure stability.
But Assad, enjoying Iran’s unwavering support, refused to back down, and tried to suppress the uprising with brute force.
These moves towards renewed imperialism and the resort to brute force are critical for Russia’s own internal developments.
This is where we stand: Aleppo, besieged and in ruins, exhausted and abandoned by the world, yet defiant – dying with its boots on – is our shame, our crime of omission, our self-abasement, our capitulation in the face of brute force, our acceptance of the worst in humanity.
Any resort to brute force to suppress demonstrations would finalize the regime’s loss of legitimacy.
They promote wrestlers to the highest ranks not just on brute merit, but according to how much hinkaku (dignity) they are judged to possess.
Fifty years ago, when asked what he thought would be the Vatican's reaction to one of his dictates, Stalin responded with his usual brute cynicism: How many divisions does the Pope have? he asked.
One troubling aspect of this change is that the new leader may feel the need to resort to brute force more frequently in order to suppress popular resistance.
With frankness and brute force the Kremlin supported three parties: The “Union of Right Forces" led by Boris Nemtzov, Sergei Kiriyenko, and Anatoly Chubais; the ever obedient to the Kremlin mob of Vladimir Zhirinovsky; and "Edinstvo” (meaning Unity or Bear), specially created for the election by Yeltsin's administration.
This power is counterbalanced by the de facto political power that emerges from the ability to engage in collective action, or from brute force.
A human chess master’s ability to intuit, visualize, and prioritize easily prevailed over the brute force approach of computers.
The brute force of massive monetary and fiscal stimulus rings hollow as a cyclical remedy to this problem.
A free press, free speech, and free elections, it is feared, may diminish the brute power that is needed for Russia to assert itself.
The world is witnessing the triumph of brute power in the twenty-first century.
The Communist government managed to stay in power after Tiananmen not just through brute force.
Indeed, either the regime will resort to brute force to suppress the protests, thus abandoning any pretense of democratic legitimacy in favor of de facto military dictatorship, or it will find it impossible to beat the subversive genie of democracy back into its bottle, and Iran will increasingly open up and reform itself.
They need to work together through negotiations to solve problems that simply cannot and should not be solved by brute force.
Russia has reminded the world that it is possible to bully one’s neighbors and steal their territory using brute force; but, in a globalized, multi-polar system, this alone will not be enough to rally other countries to its cause.
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