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Clearly, all history is
contemporary
history, and what Europeans, in particular, need to learn today from the twentieth century concerns the power of ideological extremes in dark times – and the peculiar nature of European democracy as it was constructed after World War II.
Analogizing in this way seemed more to reflect a desire to re-fight the old battles, rather than to sharpen political judgment about
contemporary
events.
and whatever else may be the catchwords of the
contemporary
crop of reformers."
By one
contemporary
estimate, there were more than 40 million refugees in Europe alone.
For many, Alexander Hamilton has become a
contemporary
hero.
All of this is worth considering, because few parallels are to be found in
contemporary
Asia.
In fact, much of what happened in Bosnia – including the effort, in its aftermath, to realize concepts of universal justice – has applications for the
contemporary
world.
Such measures as the efforts by the European Parliament to regulate the derivatives market or the British government’s ban on short selling in the wake of the financial crisis or the demand to caps bankers’ bonuses are
contemporary
expressions of the wish to reduce the power of financial speculation to damage the economy.
Keynes saw that “it is the financial markets’ precariousness which creates no small part of our
contemporary
problem of securing sufficient investment.”
The works of these banned writers are packed with vivid detail about
contemporary
Chinese life.
A cardinal principle of
contemporary
medical ethics is that patients have the right to make this type of decision, and that physicians are obligated to follow their wishes.
The number of potentially life-prolonging technologies offered by
contemporary
medicine is proliferating.
Just look at the credits at the end of any
contemporary
film.
China’s hierarchical conception of world order has deep roots, which Yan Xuetong, perhaps the country’s leading
contemporary
strategic thinker, explores in his books The Transition of World Power and Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power.
Although it is impossible to anticipate how Mexico’s many
contemporary
crises will end, we do know that in the coming years Mexico will continue to be characterized by a combination of solid macroeconomic numbers, chronic inequality, and structural violence.
The charismatic figures of the mid-twentieth century – Churchill, Adenauer, and de Gaulle – have no
contemporary
counterparts.
The
contemporary
British comic opera Iolanthe celebrated the fact that “every boy and every gal that’s born into the world alive is either a little Liberal or else a little Conservative.”
But such an institutional outcome is not inevitable (and it probably no longer endures even in
contemporary
Britain).
The
contemporary
United States also is not a compelling demonstration that competition between two parties leads to increasing moderation and political centrism.
In 2005-2007, PiS implemented neoliberal economic policies (for example, eliminating the highest income-tax bracket and the estate tax); this time, it has enacted the largest social transfers in Poland’s
contemporary
history.
This oversight is particularly crippling in view of the impending transformation, which will upend the underpinnings of
contemporary
society.
And, backed by his parliamentary majority, he was recently able to fill vacant judicial posts, making him the most powerful president in Bolivia’s
contemporary
history.
Another artist presented a vision of how outside lighting could be used to transform minarets, and help them to stand out in the blur of modern buildings that characterizes the
contemporary
Middle Eastern city.
This obscure left-wing publication is the first known reference to globalization in its
contemporary
sense.
Indeed,
contemporary
democracies are distinguished precisely by their ambition to combine respect for liberty and formal equality of rights with public policies that, as the Preamble of the 1946 French Constitution puts it, provide all citizens with "adequate living conditions."
Contemporary
democracies base their legitimacy on ensuring both political and social rights.
Politics begins where
contemporary
economics ends – with ethics and the attempt to create a justly ordered society.
Contemporary
management theory tends to distinguish between leadership and management, and places greater emphasis on leaders.
And today, with the irresistible rise of a more assertive China, the European example of a continent where the prospect of war between traditional enemies – or
contemporary
rivals – has simply disappeared is more attractive than ever.
How did it happen that every
contemporary
problem, particularly in Russia, seems to have been reduced to terrorist attacks and counter-terrorist operations?
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