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During the right-wing ascendancy of the past 20 years, the pendulum of politics swung too far towards individualism and ignored the capacity of collective action, regulated or organised by governments, to achieve what individuals could not do.
Collective decisions are taken by patriarchs in councils called jirgas, where all have to be in agreement.
Women are excluded from collective decision-making, as they are mere objects.
Such a model – in which government empowers private initiatives and is dedicated to smoothing the major economic and environmental transitions of our time – offers opportunity for all, while relying on the power of collective action.
It is thanks to these values, to the acute consciousness of what individual and collective strengths can achieve in tandem, that France has always found the necessary resources to rebuild and modernize.
Punishment is ultimately an instrument – not the only one, nor the most important – for restoring a collective moral conscience to societies ravaged by dictatorship.
No more secure guarantee for the protection of human rights exists than a heightened, collective moral awareness within society to defend every person’s dignity.
Perhaps ethical absolutism and its opponent relativism influenced that deterioration by undermining the sense of collective truth that is forged in social dialogue and wide civic participation.
For example, the 2007-2009 global financial crisis is called the “Great Recession” because the traumatic tales of the Great Depression persist in our collective memory.
But a shared identity and collective purpose remains elusive, despite the fact that we are living in an age of social networks.
I would argue that three factors largely explain our collective failure: specialization, the difficulty of forecasting, and the disengagement of much of the profession from the real world.
If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster – just look at what we are doing to our planet’s climate.
Of course, all democratic societies feature spirited debate about collective preferences.
But by overcoming differences and coordinating efforts to defeat the Islamic State and conquer Ebola, we are reinforcing support for a world order grounded in collective solutions to common problems.
Patient diplomacy and a collective will are needed to advance common goals.
Accordingly, national rather than collective approaches to the US predominate, based largely on strategies of ingratiation – each European state tries to present itself as more useful, or at least more sympathetic, than its European competitors.
Over the course of 11 years as Israel’s prime minister, Netanyahu has reshaped the country’s collective psyche.
The new bank should maximize its multiplier effects by sharing and reducing risk through collective action and “crowding in” other financing; by setting a powerful example in adopting innovative and cost-effective approaches; and through its policy and institutional impact beyond projects that it finances.
A recent fashion in St. Petersburg are restaurants with names such as "Lenin's Mating Call," "USSR," and "Russian Kitsch," which has frescos showing collective farmers socializing with American Indians while Leonid Brezhnev, resembling Frank Sinatra, gives a speech to a stone-age tribe.
The collective nature of a theatrical experience is no less important: theatre always presupposes the presence of a community – actors and audience – who experience it together.
How can we recognize the point beyond which expression of the need for collective experience and integrating rituals becomes evil manipulation and an assault on human freedom?
New Growth Models argues that markets alone should not decide our collective fate; non-economic goals and metrics – both social and environmental – are also needed to guide countries’ economic aspirations and policies.
In particular, America’s previous president, Barack Obama, committed the US to putting aside decades of mutual recrimination with its Latin American neighbors, and facilitated the development of an Inter-American system of collective defense of democracy and human rights.
In a world of weak multilateral institutions – including a G20 beset by substantial differences of opinion on basic questions – it is more important than ever that euro-zone governments bolster their collective clout in an uncertain, unprecedented, and competitive global environment.
They plan and design headline-grabbing attacks using every means of communications to intimidate and break the collective will of free people.
Our collective failure to take action is not the result of having chosen leaders who are insane or irrational.
The Obama alternative was supposed to be collective global security sustained by multilateral structures.
This involved a frenzied process of building regional alliances to advance collective interests.
And in 2011, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru established the more liberal-minded Pacific Alliance, underscoring their collective pivot to Asia.
Here, scientific integrity is understood not as a duty to stakeholders—funders, companies, or, as with Hwang, politicians concerned about national prestige—but as a collective responsibility that is upheld by identifying and correcting errors before they cause substantial harm.
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