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First, the “loss” of the Cold War, and with it imperial and superpower status, has created a deep and so far unresolved crisis in the collective mentality of Russia’s political class.
The school has a brass band, a farm, an artists’ collective, microfinance and literary clubs, and support groups for victims of domestic violence.
But, in the medium term, the key will be labor rights: unionization and collective bargaining; prohibition of child labor, unpaid overtime, unjustified dismissal, and excessive outsourcing; and skills training to meet the economy’s changing needs.
And perhaps the most pragmatic choice would be to remain in the EU, at least for now, thereby preserving the option of changing their collective mind later, should new information warrant it.
In New York this week, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has convened a summit of world leaders to address this global phenomenon, which urgently requires collective intervention.
A fixed penalty price for non-compliance will send the right signal of the world’s collective recognition that our economic future is inextricably linked with our environmental future.
Hindu “fundamentalists” are, instead, chauvinists, whose religious faith is rooted not in any of Hinduism’s profound philosophical and spiritual underpinnings, but in its role as an alternative source of collective, if not “national,” identity.
The rationale for integration is that collective action is far more effective than unilateral efforts.
In each instance, when the world's collective decision differed from what America wanted, President Bush insisted that America get its way.
Fourth, our ability to innovate depends on the size of our collective brain, which depends on the ability of social norms to encourage people to generate, share, and recombine novel ideas and practices.
He is right to do so, because many of today’s crucial challenges – saving the planet from our own excesses; ensuring that technological advances benefit all members of society; and building the new infrastructure that we need nationally and globally for a sustainable future – demand collective solutions.
He was worried about the fragility of our collective prosperity, and the grave tensions between nationalism and the rootless cosmopolitan attitudes underpinning a peaceful and flourishing global society.
He sought to expose the bankruptcy of ascendant ideological nostrums: laissez-faire, spontaneous order, collective cooperation, central planning.
In itself, this approach represents a worthy expression of collective conscience in opposition to the terrorists.
The banks’ institutional personalities reflect the role of collective memory in shaping how officials conceptualize the problems that they face.
An interconnected world needs cooperation and collective action.
Historically, the US has exercised enormous leadership in a world committed to the proposition that no state should dictate collective decisions.
The first ingredients of a common collective identity have been injected into the EU’s enlarged membership, which is still marked by diverse positions, sensitivities, and expectations.
Countries as diverse as Peru, Vietnam, and Mexico would have signed on to labor laws enshrining workers’ rights to form independent unions and engage in collective bargaining, as well as intellectual property protections to defend against counterfeiting and unfair subsidies to state-owned enterprises.
Since Deng’s final years in power, in the late 1980s, a form of collective leadership within the Communist Party has ruled China, with the same unwritten conventions protecting the most powerful from retribution.
Under Xi, however, collective leadership has given way to one-man rule, and the unwritten rules of behavior have been junked.
It is time our collective security alliances overhauled these inequitable funding methods and made sure that all member states pay a proportionate price for global security.
Collective security alliances are just that – collective.
The editorials accepted the treaty with the United States that serves as a basis for Japanese security, but rejected the idea that Japan has a right to collective self-defense.
He has reduced the membership of the Politburo from nine to seven, making it easier to obtain agreement in a system designed to institutionalize collective leadership.
It was not until 1919, after the war was over, that Wilson defined his foreign-policy vision of “liberal internationalism”: support for collective security and promotion of open markets among democracies, regulated by a system of multinational institutions ultimately dependent on the United States.
He believed that international institutions, the rule of law, common values, and an elite possessed of a democratic vision could ensure collective security and peaceful conflict resolution.
Once we know that, legislation and regulatory measures can be brought to bear to advance our collective goals, and to encourage bottom-up experimentation.
Capitalism has no equal when it comes to unleashing the collective economic energies of human societies.
Better yet, Europe is once again pursuing political unification with vigor and a sense of collective purpose, and that is how it should be.
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