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Egyptians’ collective determination will ensure that, in the revolution’s second year, the country will get a new constitution, hold proper presidential elections, and benefit from a functioning and representative parliament.
They have reaffirmed the importance of collective defense, which underpins their ability to tackle security challenges – even in times of economic austerity – in regions outside the North Atlantic, most visibly in Africa (Libya and the Gulf of Aden).
Will the Alliance assume a leading role in collective security missions, as in Afghanistan?
Our collective health and wellbeing are evidence of such institutions’ effectiveness.
As political scientist Kevin O’Brien has argued, China’s increased readiness to compromise with some domestic protesters, rather than treat all forms of collective action as subversive, can be seen as reflecting a growing sense of security.
But Europe’s policymakers claim to be making progress toward a so-called “banking union,” which means collective banking supervision, rather than a merger of banks themselves.
For example, Japan could simply continue to increase the defense budget, reinterpret the existing constitution, and strengthen collective security; the capacity of Japanese special forces could be expanded; or Article 9 could be repealed altogether by a vote in both houses of the Diet, followed by a national referendum.
For starters, the US argues that it is the various states of East Asia that have actively sought American support for their security, owing to their collective concerns about China.
Trump’s cabinet members and high-level appointees share collective responsibility for propping up a shameful presidency.
The continued targeting of such brave workers is posing a severe challenge to these countries’ public-health communities and their collective ambition to reach every child with lifesaving vaccines.
There are many balancing acts to be mastered: a government that is too powerful might violate citizens’ rights, but a government that is too weak would be unable to undertake the collective action needed to create a prosperous and inclusive society – or to prevent powerful private actors from preying on the weak and defenseless.
Dealt a difficult hand, Spain can overcome its critical situation only through collective hard work, responsibility, respect, and loyalty, thereby ensuring its standing in Europe and beyond.
If the largest beneficiary of a public good (like the US) does not take the lead in devoting disproportionate resources toward its provision, smaller beneficiaries are unlikely to be able to produce it because of the difficulties of organizing collective action when large numbers are involved.
First, the US should take the lead in helping to develop and maintain international laws and institutions to organize collective action to deal with not only trade and the environment, but also weapons proliferation, peacekeeping, human rights, and other concerns.
And yet chronic disease has become a major social problem that requires a collective response.
Our collective interest in addressing the problem of chronic diseases does not rest only on epidemiological statistics.
The financial world is holding its collective breath.
New Zealand’s Laborites privatized the postal system and many other public enterprises, and changed the country’s employment system from highly centralized collective bargaining to one that gave employers considerable discretion to hire and fire and to pay market-determined wages.
Above all, their realism about the bilateral relationship and its possibilities will be essential, because Europe’s most powerful asset has never been a detailed vision of the future, but rather its collective willingness to improve upon past failures.
As Bill and Melinda Gates will discuss at a gathering of world leaders next week in New York, and show in a new report, collective action is needed to address the various dimensions of gender inequality and drive progress.
The EU member states must develop a collective approach to national-security problems before meaningful strategic cooperation between the EU and India can occur.
So, how should collective decision-making be carried out?
So, for both ethical and practical reasons, social scientists have long investigated how the concerns of a society’s members can be reflected in one way or another in its collective decisions, even if the society is not fully democratic.
Rather than undermining the pursuit of social reasoning, Arrow’s deeply challenging impossibility theorem, and the large volume of literature that it has inspired, has immensely strengthened our ability to think rationally about the collective decision-making on which our survival and happiness depend.
Of course, this does not mean that central bankers should be hosting meetings or conference calls to discuss collective strategies.
The eurozone and the EU are facing multiple threats, all of which call for a collective response.
It is time to bring back the comprehensive thinking of 1944-1945, which emphasized collective goods over narrow interests.
As these employees are often closer to customers than those higher up, their collective knowledge about what the market is demanding is an important source of value.
But myths are a collective and mysterious construction.
The most recent is a women’s collective, the Madres y Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo).
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