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But because it is finance, not democratic civil society, that is pushing back against the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union, the Brexit debate will become more bitter, and the fallout more severe.
Nigeria, a fragile coalition of ethnic groups, may not be sliding into a second civil war (yet), but inter-ethnic relations could worsen if the Boko Haram menace is not quickly tackled.
Civil Society and Its New EnemiesPRAGUE - Genuine civil society is the truest fundamental of democracy, a truth often forgotten in the heat of election campaigns.
Although Communism could, every now and then, coexist with private ownership, sometimes with private enterprise, it could never coexist with civil society.
So the most fateful attack that accompanied the installation of Communist power everywhere was an attack on civil society.
Restoration of civil society – the many parallel and mutually complementary ways in which citizens participate in public life – has been far more complicated.
The reason is self-evident: civil society is an intricately structured, very fragile, sometimes even mysterious organism that grew over decades, if not centuries.
After years of virtual non-existence, civil society, therefore cannot be restored from above, or by legal fiat.
In the ten years of postcommunist transition our new political elites take either an apathetic stance towards rebuilding civil society or actively oppose it.
This is why taxation in our country remains excessive: the state has to pay for a thousand things which it would not have to pay if an advanced civil society existed, because citizens would pay for them directly.
Faith in civil society, indeed, is still interpreted by many as leftism, anarchism or syndicalism; someone has even called it proto-fascism.
At the root of the argument that civil society is an attack on the political system, we find the well known unwillingness to share power.
It is not the intention of civil society to circumvent parliament or political parties: it aims to enable them to work to the best of their ability.
Without a life-giving background in the form of a diversely structured civil society, political parties as well as political institutions wither, lose inventiveness, and are eventually reduced to dull, closed groups of political professionals.
Civil society generates genuine pluralism, and pluralism – leading to competition – produces quality.
Moreover, the more stratified civil society becomes, the more it thrives, the more stable is domestic politics.
Civil society protects citizens from being excessively affected by changes at the center of political power.
Where civil society is not sufficiently developed every problem filters up to the center of power.
You need not be an economist to discover that civil society also pays its way.
Even without deductions, civil society takes its own improving initiatives.
The most important aspects of civil society is yet another thing – it enables people to realize themselves.
Civil society is one of the key ways in which our human nature can be exercised in its entirety.
The enemies of civil society know this; it animates their opposition to it.
The Palestinian security services are discovering that they lack the capacity to do so without risking civil war.
In the Middle East alone, the US has overstretched its capabilities in two controversial wars; repeatedly failed to broker a peace between Israel and Palestine; estranged key regional powers; and performed disappointingly on issues like Iran’s nuclear program and Syria’s civil war.
It is time for the US to recognize that it cannot resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, defuse the Iranian nuclear dispute, change North Korea’s behavior, or stop the Syrian civil war on its own.
The United States and Spain did it in their civil wars, and today’s Spain would go to the outer limits of its capacity to prevent a Catalan or Basque referendum, let alone independence.
The controversy has spilled out of the psychology laboratories and psychiatric clinics, capturing headlines, motivating legislative changes, and affecting outcomes in civil lawsuits and criminal trials.
Frank Gaffney, an influential figure in Trump’s ethnic nationalist circles, spoke of Muslims as “termites,” who “hollow out the structure of the civil society and other institutions.”
Islamist violence will be met by emergency laws, state-sanctioned torture, and limits on civil rights – in a word, authoritarianism.
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