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Enlightenment on TrialUgly debates about religion and science usually seem to be confined to the United States.
In recent months, however, such debates have begun to spread – first to Europe and then around the world.
This is not to say that religious sentiment or, in the case of Germany, bitter historical experience stemming from the Nazi era, had not informed other European debates, say, on the ethics of stem-cell research.
Debates about the nature and benefits of science are not confined to the US and Europe.
Who would have thought that, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the old Enlightenment debates would still be so potent?
The best evidence for the widespread acceptance of R2P as a normative standard lies in the General Assembly’s annual debates.
Most debates addressed whether the war was justified.
A Doomsday ScenarioAs America debates whether or not to invade Iraq, fears that the country's economic recovery will stall are beginning to creep into the discussion; with that, worries about the health of the global economy are growing, too.
But the GBD could do more to inform policy debates and spur action to improve health if it were able to provide more detailed breakdowns of data.
This is the background against which the candidates will head into face-to-face debates, which tend to play a large (even excessive) role in shaping US elections.
This has already made public-policy debates more constructive, because policymakers are focusing on how labor and business can fairly share the burden of economic adjustment.
One hopes that, as the campaign progresses, honest and forward-looking fiscal-policy debates recognizing this fundamental truth gain traction.
American Delusions Down UnderNEW YORK – For better or worse, economic-policy debates in the United States are often echoed elsewhere, regardless of whether they are relevant.
In a genuinely open, merit-based contest, the 25-member Executive Board’s deliberations should have been preceded by debates between the candidates.
For too long, intemperate historical debates – often driven by biased newspaper accounts – have poisoned bilateral relations.
What we are witnessing today is a reversal of the debates of the 1980’s.
The pan-European parties’ nomination of Spitzenkandidaten for the Commission presidency – and the three direct debates among the nominees – marked the start of building a genuine supranational European political space.
Heated and relatively technical debates of this nature require one to decide which experts to trust.
In the year since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, questions about Islam - its nature, its distinctive identity, its potential threat to the West - have seized center stage in intellectual and political debates.
Relations between the US and Europe have gone virtually unmentioned in the dozens of Presidential debates held over the past six months.
Nearly six decades after the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community, the debates taking place throughout the EU continue to be conducted largely by national actors in national fora – and with a view to national interests.
Defining these interests will require a serious, honest, pan-European debate – one that is more than the sum of national debates.
Billions of people worldwide followed the candidates’ engaging – and often theatrical – debates; they did not need a vote to feel invested in the discussion.
This should entail, first and foremost, broadcasting formal debates between the leading candidates across Europe – the model being the Eurovision Song Contest and the Champions League in football (soccer).
Bombing the US BudgetPARIS – As the United States and the world mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, debates are raging about the consequences – for Iraq, the Middle East, and America’s standing in the world.
These are all recurring themes in ongoing debates across the West, with its growing population of disaffected whites, displaced workers, and frustrated young people.
But most debates about tax justice consist merely in conflicting claims concerning the fairest way to share out tax burdens among different income groups.
Traditional debates about tax fairness address an illusory issue, and draw attention away from the true moral importance of taxes: that justice in taxation is inseparable from the justice of the overall economic and social system whose existence taxation supports.
STANFORD – Around the world, raging debates about whether, when, how, and how much to reduce large budget deficits and high levels of sovereign debt are dividing policymakers and publics.
Indeed, the approval of these referenda will drive drug-policy debates worldwide.
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