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In September 2009, the IMF distributed to its members $283 billion worth of Special Drawing Rights, an arcane financial instrument, but one that essentially constitutes additional foreign exchange.
Brexit constitutes a revolution, and that means it is bound to follow a familiar historical pattern.
If none of the above constitutes a breach of democratic principles, one wonders what would.
More important, even if one accepts the view that globalization constitutes a threat to Europe’s social model, there is little scope for further integration, given that trade policy is already fully unified at the EU level.
Initiatives like the World Water Forums thus inevitably highlight debates about what constitutes good water management, as well as elaborating useful concepts.
This constitutes a default on Venezuelans’ most basic freedoms, which Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua – three ideologically kindred countries that have a single exchange rate and single-digit inflation – have managed to preserve.
A real debate on basic reform has to start with an explicit conception of economic performance - of what constitutes a good business life.
According to the court, depriving someone of legal capacity constitutes a “very serious” interference of a person’s right to private life.
The emergence of a new Palestinian Prime Minister and government constitutes an important opening.
President Barack Obama has said and repeated what reasonable Americans understand: the stockpile of assault weapons – small in size but massive in their destructiveness – in private hands constitutes an invisible but legal arsenal.
But Putin’s idea of what constitutes Russia’s national interest makes that type of intervention unlikely.
I’d like to lay out a simple path to addressing (not resolving) these security problems, one that does not require agreement among all governments (or people) on what really constitutes a crime, much less a global police force or unenforceable global treaties.
Finally, he must make clear to the Security Council, in no uncertain terms, that its inaction or complacency is inconsistent with the UN Charter and constitutes a crime of omission.
The US now constitutes a minority of one within the G7, the G20, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Though China’s government established preliminary rules governing online privacy in 2012, many gray areas remain, including basic issues like the types of information companies can share, how that information can be used, and what constitutes consumer consent.
Defining the offensive racist views proscribed by the Constitution was the first challenge in the Ellwanger case, because the defense denied that anti-Semitism constitutes racism at all.
The US also developed a particular populist belief that gun ownership constitutes a vital protection against government tyranny.
Religious education constitutes up to 50% of students’ curriculum.
The relation of divine and secular fuels passionate debate throughout the Islamic world and in Israel, but the Orthodox idea of sinfonia – the harmonious unity between society, state, and church – constitutes a distinctive challenge to the acceptance of liberal democracy.
But this should not go too far, for there are limits to what the state can do, and the strength of private initiative constitutes one key aspect of America, which became the world’s leading nation thanks to its dynamism, flexibility, and individual inventiveness.
Providing humanitarian visas – which can be issued with minimal delay – constitutes one clear commitment countries could make immediately.
Its Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), enacted after the September 11, 2001, attacks on America by the then ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government, contains many of the features enshrined in the Patriot Act: an overly vague definition of what constitutes terrorism or unlawful acts, immunity from prosecution for law-enforcement or government agents, and expansion of wire-tapping.
Beyond its impact on the Middle East, Sarkozy’s failed but brave attempt to act as a go-between constitutes an interesting window into the foreign-policy methods and ambitions of today’s France.
This re-localization constitutes a major shift in the structure of global supply networks.
Neither the West nor NATO constitutes the decisive strategic threat facing Russia, which comes from the Islamic South and from the Far East, in particular the emerging superpower, China.
This helps to explain why private investment in research and development constitutes a larger share of GDP in Israel than anywhere else in the world.
The Indian diaspora in the US constitutes roughly three million people, many of whom actively participate in politics.
Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election earlier this month constitutes just such a change.
The OECD has constructed a Better Life Index, containing a range of metrics that better reflect what constitutes and leads to wellbeing.
But the scope of Chinese claims doomed that agreement from the start; indeed, China now insists that the sea constitutes a core national interest, on a level with Taiwan and Tibet, for which it is prepared to fight.
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