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To be sure, the extent of collective liability for torture and other indecencies invites debate.
Neither the vast majority of US soldiers nor Americans as individuals have done anything wrong in Iraq (apart from the invasion itself), and thus might balk at allegations of collective guilt for the atrocities.
Yet in other cases of collective action, we willingly affirm collective guilt and a shared duty to make reparations.
Another reason why guilt does not capture our situation is that the collective debt must be owed to some coherent collective entity, such as the Jewish people in the Holocaust.
If guilt is problematic in this context, we are left to struggle with collective shame.
But without rules, a referendum is little more than an invitation to a collective roar of anger.
Mandela, one of the most remarkable and visionary leaders the world has ever seen, understood that human development is a collective, holistic endeavor.
Those so-called reforms included sharply lower public spending, minimum-wage reductions, fire-sale privatizations, an end to collective bargaining, and deep pension cuts.
This is a collective failure.
Old EU members also have a collective Kyoto target of lowering their CO2 emissions by 8% by 2010, but they are projected to achieve a mere 4.6% reduction.
Without collective action, we face a bleak future of disappearing biodiversity and a steadily declining quality of life.
Moreover, individual businesses have often lobbied against and evaded environmental protections that are indisputably in our collective interest.
Since World War II’s end, collective punishment has become increasingly unacceptable as a response even to grave or egregious violations of international law, and this approach has been codified in a widely accepted set of principles – the so-called ILC articles – concerning the responsibility of states.
When throngs of citizens took to the streets of Istanbul in the middle of the night, in an effort to push back the military coup makers, it was a powerful show of collective action – one that should interest any political leader, particularly those seeking to develop their countries.
Of course, there is a collective consultation and deliberative process that enables any member to be heard.
The collective judgment of financial markets on any government’s economic and fiscal policy is expressed in the risk premium that the government must pay on its external debt.
Frequent deployment of the PAP is a major reason why the tens of thousands of collective protests that occur each year (74,000 in 2004 and 86,000 in 2005) have had a negligible impact on China’s overall stability.
(It would also help if, after years of backsliding, NATO’s European members upped their contributions to our collective defense.)
Yet listening to the world’s leaders speak, last week, I was struck by their passion, commitment, and collective determination to turn a page from a past of countries divided by narrow interests to nations united in the cause of a global common good.
But history tells us that governments are reluctant to seek out collective solutions to forced migration.
In the short to medium term, African countries would do well to look into the power of collective bargaining to strike better deals for needed vaccines.
Without collective action, equitable and sustained access to immunization in Africa will remain a major problem – and children’s lives will continue to be lost.
That is how defensive some Hindus in India have become over the version of history to which they subscribe – even when, as in Padmavati’s case, that history may well be nothing more than a figment of collective imagination.
A more effective approach would entail collective action to improve standards, expand public education, promote innovation in science and technology, and enforce rules more effectively.
If the US can no longer bear the burden of Pax Americana, Europe must do more for collective security.
ISPs would throttle traffic from ISPs that did not join the security collective, and pretty soon their customers would complain, forcing them either to join or find themselves relegated to the underworld, from which it would be hard to launch attacks because no one would accept their traffic.
At the very least, they must step up and act as catalysts for collective action by the Security Council.
But it differs from the euro crisis in that the beneficiary countries – Jordan, Turkey, and Greece – are on the front lines of what is a collective European undertaking.
It was “a failure of the collective imagination of many bright people,” they explained.
With the instruments of humanity’s collective suicide yet to be invented, war could still be viewed, as the Prussian strategist Carl von Clausewitz famously put it, as “the continuation of politics by other means.”
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