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This fallacy is repeated so often that it has entered the collective unconscious.
Moreover, the European Union’s capacity for collective action varies from issue to issue.
Such a reframed mission would align the World Bank more closely with its founders’ original vision of a “global credit cooperative” generating benefits for all members through collective action.
During the last half-century, America has been a reasonably good steward of international stability – a kind of benign bully operating in the collective interest.
More and more, politics looks like a rigged system whereby members of the same political class compete for jobs, rather than for the victory of ideas, or on behalf of larger collective interests.
By allowing EU leaders to avoid acknowledging the long-term nature of the migrant challenge, this approach weakens their motivation to take collective action.
But repression is yielding diminishing returns for the Party, owing to a third revolutionary development: the dramatic decline in the cost of collective action.
Based on estimates by Chinese sociologists, 500 riots, collective protests, and strikes occur each day, up almost four-fold from a decade ago.
In some of the highest-profile collective protests in the past year – the land dispute in Wukan in Guangdong and the environmental protests in Dalian, Shifang, and Qidong – the government backed down.
BRUSSELS – The eurozone is being thrown into turmoil by a collective rush to the exits by investors.
Unfortunately, the size of the EFSF looks inadequate to finance a collective exit by short-term investors.
The resulting paralysis has not only permitted massive loss of human life; it has also undermined the credibility of collective security, enabling increasingly flagrant human-rights abuses.
It is the product of humankind’s collective wisdom, cultivated over a great many years for the wellbeing of all.
Because no one pled guilty for the suffering that followed the crisis, the guilt has become collective.
This time, whatever the challenges, we should put our shoulders to the wheel and be part of the collective effort to make Europe strong and effective once more.
Here, too, the right choice is clear: EU leaders should offer Europeans a new social contract, based on the understanding that people’s legitimate fears about globalization should be met with a collective, progressive European response.
Indeed, a progressive economic agenda must begin with the recognition that wealth creation is a collective process and that market outcomes are the product of how these various “wealth creators” interact.
This same knack for diplomacy is now needed to bring WHO member states together for cooperative action on collective health challenges.
At that point, the world breathed a collective sigh of relief.
Economies, both crisis-stricken and thriving, are failing to eliminate poverty, improve the provision of public services like education, and maintain and allocate collective goods, such as fish stocks and rain forests, effectively and equitably.
Russian society is atomized, with no sense of cohesion, solidarity, or collective drive in any interest group, professional or social, big or small.
The world leaders who met at the UN in September for the annual General Debate all agreed on a central point: the importance of fighting poverty, hunger, and disease is crucial for our collective survival.
Only collective efforts can meet common challenges; the more global the response, the more likely that it will succeed.
But one critical question remains unresolved: How can we ensure that these voluntary individual pledges add up to a collective solution to a global problem?
The problem with inequality is not only that it obstructs the pursuit of collective goals and the common good; it also erects structural barriers to development, for example, through meager or regressive taxation and underinvestment in education, health, or infrastructure.
If there is too little cooperation, we cannot solve economic and social challenges that require a collective approach.
In some instances, leaders find it impossible to educate their followers adequately in time, or their followers are too deeply divided to reach a consensus that will sustain collective action.
Forging twelve independent, proud, and, in some cases, powerful national central banks into a cohesive collective was no easy task.
Most importantly, he has proposed exercising the right collective self-defense on a case-by-case basis - thus far barred by the article 9 of Japan’s constitution – in order to maintain peace and promote effective functioning of the Japan-US alliance.
Simply put, the US must manage the global economy for the collective common good, or else confront a world in which global macroeconomic management results from race-to-the-bottom national policy struggles.
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