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Time to Test IranNEW YORK – Most of the debate about how to address Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear-weapons capacity focuses on two options.
Moreover, the referendum should be held at least one year after the election, to allow for a proper, sober debate.
This puts a new debate center stage: how to reconcile increased action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with strong economic growth.
It is a debate that is already mired in controversy.
The advent of shale gas has confused the energy debate even more.
Researchers are tempted by persuasive results that can attract the interest of policymakers, who are tempted by a selective reading of the evidence that can provide them with ammunition in domestic and international debate.
As a result, questions about the role of monetary policy and the independence and accountability of central banks, once confined to rarefied academic discussions, are fixtures of broad policy debate.
“Part of the problem with this debate,” Howard told the assembled skeptics, “is that to some of the zealots involved their cause has become a substitute religion.”
Given that even Krauthammer concedes that pumping the atmosphere full of carbon dioxide “can’t be very good,” the next logical step in the debate is to determine the best way to address the problem.
Europe’s Silent Pro-Treaty MajorityAt the European Union’s coming EU summit, debate will center on whether to go forward with a “mini” EU Constitutional Treaty.
That debate is the result of the rejection of the draft treaty by French and Dutch voters in 2005.
Compassionate MeritocracySINGAPORE – More than two decades ago, political leaders in Singapore put forward the idea of “Asian values” to assert that liberal democratic principles and practices were not suited to the region, sparking an important debate that centered on the universality of human rights.
And I won’t even get into the abortion debate.
Meanwhile, over the course of three televised presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate, climate change, the signature issue of our time and the most serious problem confronting our planet, was not mentioned even once.
But there is a growing tendency to plan out four years of governing, with leaders then using legislative periods not to debate laws, but rather to enact previously agreed policies.
Mainstream parties must embrace the kind of open and constructive debate that nurtured parliamentary democracy in the Federal Republic’s early years, rather than remaining focused on political tactics.
But, instead of letting that debate rage while the planet heats up, policymakers should embrace one of the cheapest ways of cutting the air pollution that lies at the root of the problem: making buildings more efficient.
Fortunately, a free press, an independent judiciary, and a pluralist legislature helped to hold for such practices up public debate.
For Poland and the other countries of East-Central Europe that have or are about to join NATO, membership in the Alliance didn't really require debate.
The catalyst has been the United Kingdom’s often-nonsensical “Brexit” debate.
The arguments of “Leave” campaigners are frequently inaccurate, when they are not outright lies; but the furious debate in Britain over whether to remain in Europe has laid bare the EU’s deep-seated weaknesses – and has forced European leaders to stop ignoring them.
BERKELEY – In recent months, China has taken center stage in the international debate over global warming.
In one case, Russian agents allegedly flooded social media with news meant to influence the Swedish debate on immigration.
But a far more significant challenge – largely covered in the accompanying debate – is the need for crisis prevention.
The debate just eight years ago about “shovel-ready” infrastructure seems to be a distant memory.
Globalization Marches OnLONDON – In a recent symposium in the Financial Times on globalization’s prospects in 2011, the columnist Gideon Rachman observed that, “When Barack Obama visited India recently, the US President warned his hosts that the debate about globalization has reopened in the West,” and that “a backlash…is forming…and growing in advanced economies.”
The current crisis did not create the debate about globalization now heard in the West; it only made it slightly more salient.
Competition between the two parties is simply a contest for access to public resources, devoid of ideological debate about the best use of those resources, or about the state’s role in the economy and society.
In the current TPP debate, many prominent proponents still cling to this line.
But, at a minimum, the debate, in the words of US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, “shines a light” on North Korea’s “abysmal human-rights record,” and the need for some accounting of that record.
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