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With its behavior in Ukraine and elsewhere, Russia has challenged what had been a mostly stable European order founded on the legal principle that territory may not be acquired by military force.
Within a year, Luther had become one of Europe’s most famous people, and his ideas – which challenged not only Church practice and the Pope’s authority, but ultimately man’s relationship with God – had begun to reconfigure systems of power and identity in ways that are still felt today.
The official verdict states that they threatened national unity, challenged those in authority, and incited public opinion against the state while using “foreign,” that is, Western, terminology.
Our leaders may be intellectually challenged, but they are not suicidal.
Government leaders in Israel cannot afford to spend 90% of their time thinking about how to survive politically at a time when the state’s right to exist is being challenged.
First, establishment parties of the right and the left, which for more than a generation have supported free trade and globalization, are being challenged by populist, nativist/nationalist anti-establishment parties.
Those who oppose genetic patents claim that they also deny US constitutional rights, making this the first time a genetic patent has been challenged on human rights grounds.
In effect, Trump has challenged the US Congress to do what is normally the executive branch’s responsibility: create foreign policy.
North Korea has challenged the world; the question is how the world responds.
He aggressively challenged the prevailing international system of profit sharing between oil-producing countries and foreign companies, which had allowed the companies to control crude oil’s “posted price,” from which their fees to the government were derived.
At every turn, Russia has challenged Western efforts to facilitate Kosovo’s independence.
But the American aviation giant Boeing challenged the sale, alleging that, enabled by subsidies at home, Bombardier was selling the jets at below-market rates, giving the company an unfair advantage.
Citizens’ fury deepened into grim resolve; the government’s repressive impulse was challenged and defeated.
In the standard model of the neo-keynesian approach, which has become more and more “state-of-the-art”, the usefulness of money to monetary policy analysis is challenged; there is no need for monetary cross-checking, monetary analysis has no value-added and is superfluous.
But MBS was wrong to assume that he would never be challenged on that issue.
Had May not taken that step, a political anti-Brexit project – led by, say, the Liberal Democrats or a new center-left party – could have emerged and challenged the Conservatives for power.
HT Imam, a senior adviser to Hasina, squarely challenged the police for their inaction on Roy’s murder, telling top police officers to “identify the black sheep among the force and bring them under law and justice to uphold your image.”
In a recent article, “Do Muslims Really Care about Somalia?”, Akbar Ahmed and Frankie Martin challenged the Muslim world to increase its aid to Somalia.
Blank-check authorization by a geopolitically challenged commander-in-chief means that the Pentagon is now operating not just without oversight, but also with impunity.
Last year’s viral “ice bucket challenge,” in which people challenged one another to donate to ALS research or dump ice water on their heads, raised over $100 million, 20 times more than MND charities would usually raise in that time.
Reform coincided with increasing globalization, unleashing forces that restructured not only Chinese industry, but also production processes around the world as China challenged established manufacturers and became part of global supply chains.
And Ayatollah Khomeini challenged the Al Saud’s ideological monopoly and control of Mecca and Medina.
Khomeini challenged the very concept of monarchy in Islam by declaring that “those with authority” are not Kings but religious scholars.
And, while the “Arab Spring” demonstrations in 2011 brought down or seriously challenged dictators in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria, the result has been instability, violence, and civil war, not democratization.
The regimes that were brought down, or challenged, were military dictatorships cloaked in republican garb.
The entire Arab state system is being challenged and may be unraveling (as was true in parts of the post-communist world).
In his classic 1939 study The Twenty Years Crisis, the historian E. H. Carr argued that international law has always been espoused by “satisfied” powers but is always challenged by powers that hope to change the international system in their favor.
Since the economic collapse of 2008-2009, globalism and its supporting economic rules and norms have been challenged not just by US President Donald Trump, but by populists entering the European mainstream.
Stories of cooperation such as READ illustrate how old notions of assistance need to be re-examined and challenged.
Macron has so far handled Trump cleverly: he appeased Trump’s inner martinet by inviting him to the Bastille Day military parade last summer, but he has also challenged Trump publicly, with everything from a bravura handshake at their first meeting to a defense of the Iran nuclear deal.
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