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The events in Belgrade have provided another moment for that too-long-postponed debate on the larger goals of European integration to take place.
Talk of an “Arab Spring” has dominated Western media and political debate for months now.
As a fervent supporter of Santos’s human-rights efforts, of his call for a major debate on drug legalization, and of his attempt to end Colombia’s “Forty Years’ War,” I fear that Uribe has fatally wounded the peace process, and will prolong the country’s bloody and fruitless status quo indefinitely.
Yes, one can debate about the third way, or the two and a half way, or the three and a half way, but these are essentially marginal debates.
The twentieth century was dominated by a debate over the social organization of the human condition based on alternative concepts of history and even of human personality.
Now I think we're at the beginnings of a great debate regarding the personal dimension of human life.
Just look at the issues that are beginning to agitate the political debate in advanced societies: birth control, death control, life prolongation, health cures, improvements in appearance, intellectual enhancement, personality alteration, human cloning, brain transplants, synthesis of human and artificial intelligence.
Wen’s critique triggered an intense internal debate that resulted in a key strategic decision to rebalance the Chinese economy by shifting to a consumer-based model, as framed by the 12th Five-Year Plan of 2011-2015.
But this shift in emphasis – in the 13th Five-Year Plan as well as in the debate and messaging at this year’s China Development Forum – appears to be an important signal.
The bill was rushed through Congress and signed into law without any meaningful debate about its potential effects on health care.
Arguments about the euro crisis that disregard the “Karlsruhe factor,” therefore, amount to little more than sterile intellectual debate.
A Fracking Good StoryPRAGUE – Weather conditions around the world this summer have provided ample fodder for the global warming debate.
If anyone does not like them, there are all the instruments of public debate and of critical discourse that an enlightened community has at its disposal.
Public debate making clear cases one way or the other seems more appropriate than conciliation.
Nor, however, is the debate about the military option – the destruction of Iran’s nuclear program through US air strikes – conducive to resolving the issue.
American Presidential BeautyNEW YORK – What is the point of a presidential debate?
A certain percentage of American voters will not vote for a black man, whatever he says, or however good he looks in a debate.
Disagreement is the heart of educated debate.
The extent to which this extremism is a product of Saudi Arabia’s energetic promotion of its Wahhabi ideology is for Muslims to debate themselves.
The Politics of Germany’s External SurplusMUNICH – The debate about global macroeconomic imbalances is increasingly focusing on Germany’s current-account surplus and economic policy.
If it does not, the debate will take place elsewhere.
After more than two decades of largely fruitless debate, during which CO2 emissions have continued to rise, another failed summit will trigger a profound crisis for international climate diplomacy, forcing its proponents either to change the rules of the game or accept that it cannot be won.
CAMBRIDGE – In his recent debate with his opponent Hillary Clinton, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pressed his claim that US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is politically motivated.
For decades, political debate in Europe focused largely on economic institutions and policies.
At the recent Munich Security Conference, debate on the subject among leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, US Vice President Mike Pence, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov demonstrated a lack of consensus even on what the liberal order is.
We got hit from both sides of the debate and disappointed both sets of expectations.
Turkey’s Hot-Money ProblemNEW YORK – The ongoing financial volatility in emerging economies is fueling debate about whether the so-called “Fragile Five” – Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Turkey – should be viewed as victims of advanced countries’ monetary policies or victims of their own excessive integration into global financial markets.
To ask that question is to reprise a debate that was heard when Hong Kong and Macau reverted to China, but that is seldom encountered nowadays.
Nowhere is this better illustrated than in America’s current debate over illegal immigration.
But in the short-term, perceptions and vested interests are the very stuff of political debate.
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