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After the Paris attacks, the French quickly showed that they would not give up their way of life, nor would they give in to the temptation of civil war.
Human-rights groups criticized some of these measures as violations of civil liberties; but, for the most part, they were applied smoothly.
As these measures take effect, self-sufficient satellite towns will likely develop, reducing transportation-related energy consumption further, while fostering a more active civil society.
For we often sought to import tried and tested Western practices -- private property, the free market, competition, strict observance of human rights, the creation of civil society, representative democracy -- in diluted forms that would somehow help us maintain elements of Socialism.
Despite this nostalgic policymaking, enactment by the Supreme Rada (Ukraine's Parliament) of civil, criminal, land, family and economic legal codes over the years was something of a near revolution.
A sharp and ill-considered reduction of the civil service began.
“Our civil life and civilization are defined and judged primarily by our respect for the dignity of humanity and integrity of nature.”
Moving south, Obama dedicated considerable resources to ensuring that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which ended Sudan’s civil war, was actually implemented, allowing South Sudan’s peaceful secession.
Algeria’s Islamists took a slightly different route, moderating their politics after their defeat in the devastating civil war of the 1990s.
While the memory of that civil war is now fading, the example of the conflicts in Syria and Libya – together with the political engagement of Islamist parties, such as the Movement for the Society of Peace – is enough to drive most young Algerians away from jihadism.
Inept government and economic decline in the 1980’s and 1990’s obliged Nigeria’s leaders to focus on problems closer to home, like the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
For example, South Africa’s international negotiators – executive ministers and senior civil servants – can compromise on just about anything, because they are not truly accountable to their population through the parliament.
It means also that we are increasingly reluctant to allow our own vision of civil liberties and human rights to shape our foreign policies, owing to the potential commercial costs.
The civil rights of the Russian minorities in the Baltics and elsewhere are now enshrined in law, due in no small part to NATO demands.
Those civil rights initiatives on the part of NATO reflect the increasingly workmanlike way that Russia, Europe, and America now work out their disagreements.
Indeed, the record of the International War Crimes Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), based in The Hague, may be instructive in judging the credibility of the strategy of using such trials as part of the effort to end civil and other wars.
Furthermore, Turkey is concerned about the possibility of civil war in Kurdistan between the two largest Kurdish factions.
The truth is that Colombia lacks both the will and the ability to stem criminal activities and that the only effective cure for Colombia’s illness is a root-and-branch redesign of its civil institutions.
The reason for this failure, which is of course also the reason for the superiority of market economies as they are manifested in free societies, is superiority lies in the free civil society as a major source of innovative development.
The innovative qualities of civil society are per se superior to the innovative qualities of bureaucracies.
The protection of competition was the prevention of abusive power structures within civil society.
The US government mischaracterizes the war as a civil war among Syrians, rather than a proxy war involving the US, Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Qatar.
Following this show of force, US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis disingenuously stated that, “Obviously, we are not getting engaged in the Syrian civil war.”
Such action from the WHC would also help to educate and empower civil society, while placing pressure on financial institutions to withhold the funding required for massive development projects.
But the government must overcome the spoilers, such as senior civil servants and the Remain majority in the House of Commons, who favor a Brexit in name only – a “false” version that could never deliver the benefits of the real thing.
Trump, Syria, and the Threat of Region-Wide WarBEIRUT – The die, it seems, is cast for a rapid end to the United States mission in Syria – and, with it, the chances of a peaceful and sustainable resolution to that country’s brutal seven-year civil war.
Ironically, this narrow approach also undermines the effort to achieve Trump’s sole objective, as a lasting defeat of ISIS and other jihadists will demand a credible political transition that permanently ends the civil war.
By emphasizing the relations between states and governments over contacts with the opposition or civil societies (when they exist in an identifiable form), traditional diplomacy has created for itself a handicap that is difficult to overcome.
Diplomats, instead, should be judged by their ability to enter into a dialogue with all social actors: government representatives and business leaders, of course, but also representatives of civil society (even if it exists only in embryonic form).
Napoleon, defeated in that same year, had secured civil rights for Jews in the countries he had conquered.
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