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In the Balkan wars of the 1990’s, communities that had shared the same landscapes for centuries, and individuals who grew up together and went to the same schools, fought one another ferociously.
In deciding to visit Ghana, a former British colony and a leading node in the global slave trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Obama bypassed the Kenya of his father.
Data flows accounted for an estimated $2.8 trillion of this gain, exerting a larger impact than global goods trade – a remarkable finding, given that the world’s trade networks developed over centuries while cross-border data flows were nascent just 15 years ago.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European cities experienced unprecedented growth as huge numbers of people moved from the countryside to newly booming metropolises.
It suffers from endemic malaria, which is like a SARS pandemic that lasts for centuries, not for a few months.
To be sure, over the last two centuries or so, the gap between the highest and lowest incomes has grown.
Once upon a time, such contracts were enforced by armed intervention, as Mexico, Venezuela, Egypt, and a host of other countries learned at great cost in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It is the type of battle between Caesar and God that took Europe centuries to resolve.
Yet the battle between secularism and religion in the Arab world does not have to last centuries, as it did in Europe, if only because contemporary generations can benefit from the long process of social and scientific progress that enabled the West to pave the way to modern democracy.
It depends on the day, but if we count by centuries, then surely humanity’s urbanization is a strong contender.
After centuries of isolation and colonial slumber, the region is now awake to the potential benefits of greater unity.
A report published in May 2010 by the Council of Europe, entitled Islam, Islamism, and Islamophobia in Europe, recognized that Europe has been home to Muslims for many centuries, and acknowledged the contribution of Islamic civilization to European culture.
We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world – including in my own country.”
Not surprisingly, Chinese leadership was keen to avoid any reference to the last two centuries of struggle and humiliation, or to its problematic political agendas and thorny trade issues.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Muslim thinkers – most famously Jamal al-Din al-Afghani – believed that embracing many of the ideals developed in the West during the Enlightenment was the only way to promote progress.
Only when it was reclaimed would two centuries of humiliation at the hands of Western imperial powers and, more recently, the nascent state of Israel be reversed.
In the "third culture" best seller The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature , Steven Pinker says that we may need to admit a natural scientific basis for what humanists have for centuries called "fate."
After all, the United States would not have become the leading world power in less than two centuries without the successive waves of migrants that landed on its shores.
Paris and the Fate of the EarthPRINCETON – The lives of billions of people, for centuries to come, will be at stake when world leaders and government negotiators meet at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris at the end of the month.
Sharia first blossomed during a period of creative ferment centuries ago, but stagnated when later generations came to believe that the law need not adapt to changing circumstances.
At a stroke, the empire that had gobbled up Chinese territories for centuries vanished.
Over centuries of practice, European courtiers learned much about what does and does not work in court life.
Similarly, Christianity, whether Catholic or Orthodox, blocked economic development for centuries, until internal reformists redefined theological positions on money and banking, the nature of progress, and science and technology.
In the absence of an analog to the West’s Industrial Revolution, Muslims (and especially Arabs) have faced multiple humiliations and partial colonization over the past two centuries.
Macron Needs More Than CharmPARIS – For centuries, France and the United States have been friends, allies, and competitors.
It underpins the doctrine known as mercantilism, which comprises a hoary set of beliefs discredited more than two centuries ago.
Second, Russia is a multi-ethnic country that for centuries developed as an empire, not as a nation-state.
Still, during the last two centuries, reformers seeking to modernize Turkey have looked to Europe for inspiration.
But such dreams always hit a formidable obstacle: national rivalries that date back decades – in some cases centuries – and that repeatedly keep mutually profitable energy-integration agreements from being signed.
Another accomplishment was the record-high abstention rate: 57% of French voters disdained the rare and precious privilege of voting, a privilege invented several centuries ago by men who believed in deliberation, reason, and enlightenment.
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