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Roosevelt believed that only a collective solution could meet the challenge.
But globalization has its downside: financial markets are unstable; free competition creates and reinforces inequalities nationally and internationally; collective interests, from preservation of peace to human rights and environmental protection, receive short shrift.
Collective goods like fire and police protection are allocated on a per capita basis.
They heard in pleas for freedom from behind the Iron Curtain not a desire to become American, but to join the remarkably successful European experiment in collective security and prosperity that emerged after World War II.
To put it differently, recognizing our collective interest in the openness of the global economy is not sufficient.
As other powers rise, ASEAN is at risk of losing its collective commitment to a shared vision for the region and a common stance on geopolitical issues.
But a reassessment is needed if ASEAN is to speak with a strong voice on regional matters, rather than allowing dissenting voices within the group to prevent the adoption of collective positions.
Driven to the margins of most societies by collective memories of Nazi and fascist horrors, such men (there were hardly any women) had the grubby air of middle-aged patrons of backstreet porno cinemas.
Although EU-Turkey relations are currently not at their best, the dialogue between the two sides must continue in 2017, not least because of their common interests, which are based not only on economic interdependence, but also on the refugee crisis and the collective fight against terrorism.
Populists are always anti-pluralists; the task for those opposing them is to fashion conceptions of a pluralist collective identity devoted to shared ideals of fairness.
For example, he points to the expansion – both geographic and substantive – of protections for individual and collective rights, as well as an overall reduction in violence.
The world is in desperate need of leaders who are willing to maximize the benefits of science and technology through collective management and international cooperation.
While I have great respect for the forecasting community and the collective wisdom of financial markets, I suspect that today’s consensus of complacency will be seriously tested in 2018.
Even if serious dialogue with Uzbekistan is taking place behind closed doors – and the Pentagon’s new initiatives suggest that it is – its low, almost undetectable, profile sends mixed signals that fly in the face of the open, transparent, and collective ethos of America’s big OSCE push.
More than any other collective activity, it channels the search for identity and identification that dominates our age.
When a market has structural distortions, political tools and collective action of the sort that OPEC embodied can be more effective than public policy.
If the countries listed above were to join with China, Mexico, India, and other major labor exporters, they would be holding most of the chips in a collective negotiation about wages, visa terms, and other conditions – some of which would also benefit non-members as global norms changed.
Labor importers would have to vie for access to a collective market, rather than individual national markets, and countries that gained access would have a significant comparative advantage over those that did not.
It believes that operational military capability is a condition of power – a view that is not shared by the overwhelming majority of European states, which continue to display a collective aversion to war.
As censorship anywhere risks becoming censorship everywhere, global norms must be developed and enforced to protect the worldwide discussion and collective action needed to address the issues of our time.
The sensible way forward is to minimize weaknesses by maximizing collective strengths.
But collective energy security requires increasing the EU’s ability to face – and face down – external energy challenges.
The floodwaters have since receded, but the images of upheaval remain etched in our collective memory.
By pricing carbon pollution and harnessing our collective abilities, we can address the former and seize the latter.
Transparency and collective scrutiny would also help to ensure that scientists fulfill their fundamental responsibility to protect against laboratory accidents.
The 1990’s concept of a “European Defense Identity” within NATO proved to be unviable – and since then expansion of the alliance and proliferation of NATO “partners” has made the idea of a special collective role for EU members all the more improbable.
None of this is unprecedented, and there is a lot of scholarship demonstrating why such beggar-thy-neighbor approaches result in bad collective outcomes.
Ultimately, however, genuine progress depends on our collective determination to change patterns of behavior and attitudes toward gender-based crime.
Our media’s preoccupation with trivia – and collective lack of conscience – is impressive even by British tabloid standards.
Genuinely collective decision-making can be a painfully difficult process, but, in government as elsewhere, there is wisdom in crowds.
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