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Popular sovereignty entails certain types of decision procedures--grounded ultimately on the will of the majority (restricted by respect for liberty and individual rights)--and offers a particular justification for collective decision-making.
They therefore see its rule over them as illegitimate, which is precisely the point: the logic of popular sovereignty requires an idea of collective agency based on a sense of individual belonging that is much stronger than in our lecture audience.
Of course, some extreme philosophical individualists believe that appealing to a greater collective is pure humbug, concocted to get voters to accept voluntary servitude.
This law also defines the community whose freedom it realizes and defends-a collective agency, a people, whose acting together by the law preserves their freedom.
Insofar as this freedom is crucial to their identity, they identify strongly with this ongoing collective agency--the "nation" or the "people"--and hence feel a bond with their co-participants in it.
Simply put, are Iraqis too divided, too long oppressed, to develop anything like the sense of common identity and collective agency that popular sovereignty requires?
When people and governments are deep in debt, and as long as they pay positive interest on that debt, declining money income is a recipe for collective insolvency.
Who will replace an obsolete nonproliferation regime, provide collective security in emerging international hotspots, and build momentum behind Middle East Peace talks?
Eradicating hunger, ending food insecurity, and ensuring sustainability are global priorities that call for collective action.
In high-functioning democracies such as the United States or the United Kingdom, there is enough collective memory of the problems caused by high debt to allow some support for periodic reduction of debt/GDP ratios.
But both groups are our collective responsibility.
Haiti’s State-Building ChallengeSANTO DOMINGO -- The $5 billion in short-term aid for Haiti, and the $10 billion pledged for its long-term reconstruction at the International Donors’ Conference on March 31, is a vote of confidence in the potential of collective international action.
This kind of cooperation could serve as a first step in a collective effort by key states – including Russia – to strengthen Europe’s security architecture.
Trump’s historic mistake represents an obstacle to that collective action; but it can hardly stop it.
A high point of the meeting was the speech by Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, who stressed the marked change in her institution, at least at the top: deep concern about women’s rights; renewed emphasis on the link between inequality and instability; and recognition that collective bargaining and minimum wages could play an important role in reducing inequality.
Its value is arbitrarily determined by the collective psychology of the mass of investors; it goes where, on average, they think it will.
The responsibility for our collective failure and inaction is not confined to international diplomats and policymakers; it is shared by all of us.
In fact, China’s leaders have moved away from strongman politics, toward more collective leadership.
There is a simple, if radical, solution: abrogate the legal provisions that regulate the duration of employment contracts, and return the treatment of tenure and seniority to collective bargaining, as is the case elsewhere.
Their collective commitments to stimulate, regulate and restructure global economic activity helped to calm nerves around the world.
Sceptics fear that now that the collective financial threat is perceived, rightly or wrongly, to be manageable, the Pittsburgh Summit will result in a weak compromise that reflects divergent national interests rather than a sense of urgency about tackling climate change, chronic poverty and ineffective global governance.
The very resources that form the basis of informal security systems – solidarity, social capital, and collective action, for example, can have perverse effects.
They might be excluded from participation in informal networks, or have limited influence in appropriating the accrued benefits of collective action.
In other words, beyond serving its own stakeholders, a company should accept its own role as a stakeholder in our collective future – a sort of quid pro quo for its license to operate.
A ritual of collective masochism?
With more than 50% of the world’s population now living in urban areas – a share that is rising fast – the answer to this question will shape our collective future.
The city also created linkages with others nearby, with each complementing the others’ comparative advantages, thereby reinforcing collective progress.
For a country like Poland, NATO’s lofty principle of collective defense, while essential to national security, remains, in the absence of appropriate military capabilities and on-the-ground practicability, merely a political commitment.
When Poland joined NATO 15 years ago, it was understood that Article 5 – the “all for one, and one for all” principle that provides for a collective response to an armed attack on any member – would be the cornerstone of the country’s security.
The new Strategic Concept, adopted at the Alliance’s 2010 Lisbon summit, established collective defense as one of its three main tasks, underscoring the importance of developing contingency plans, organizing joint exercises and training, and creating “visible assurance” within member states.
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