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While the United Nations Security Council debates how to reprimand North Korea for the attack on the Cheonan, few people in South Korea believe that any punishment will deter Kim or shorten the life of his regime.
Indeed, at the EU level, the divisions and debates among national governments came to the fore as leaders struggled to reach an agreement on a quota system for the distribution of refugees among member states.
The pattern is starting to look familiar: a new crisis, a new meeting in Brussels, an initially muddled response, debates and divisions, and then gradual, step-by-step progress toward a common response, driven by the realization that there is no other alternative.
Today's debates about growth in Europe are full of buzz words like "knowledge-based society," "technological progress," and "investment in education."
It might even help to steer the bitter debates over migration and trafficking of drugs and firearms in a more productive direction.
Unfortunately, that is what typically happens when people make simple bets on complex debates.
The problem with bets like these is that they are far too simple to settle the complex debates that underlie them.
Doing so would leave only the squalid food fights into which so many important debates devolve.
The solution is to take bets far more seriously, to expand them, and to design them to be capable of settling debates to the satisfaction of most reasonable observers.
That would be an enlightening result particularly when public debates are dominated by extreme positions – the clash between Ehrlich and Simon being a classic illustration.
Whatever the reason, the apparent irrelevance of the human rights treaty system in current debates is a worrisome sign.
The emotional debates over “shock therapy” vs. gradualism have been replaced by a broad consensus that, while we need to exploit windows of political opportunity, not everything can be done at once, and reversal is always a threat.
In each of these defining political debates, each side has demonized the other, claiming that the opponent is driven by malice or ignorance.
For example, Mediterranean Europe is still wracked by debates about the power of the Catholic Church, just as the American South continues to bear the legacy of slavery and the Civil War.
On a daily basis, at a great many international and scholarly conferences all over the world, we can hear learned debates about human rights and emotional proclamations in their defense.
European parliamentary debates rarely make it far outside Brussels or Strasbourg, and voter turnout to fill the body’s seats has typically been low.
Now, the EU is at the center of domestic political debates, which increasingly include existential questions about the survival of the eurozone and the entire European project.
Bombs AwayLONDON – One of the most dispiriting features of today’s international debates is that the threat to humanity posed by the world’s 23,000 nuclear weapons – and by those who would build more of them, or be only too willing to use them – has been consigned to the margin of politics.
It’s Time to Let Women ThriveDAVOS – In public debates around the world, women’s empowerment is increasingly being recognized as a top priority.
One solution could be to provide national representatives a venue to convene for European-wide debates.
Such arguments are typically countered in policy debates by objections related to fiscal balance and macroeconomic stability.
The question of “large” or “small” government is less relevant, despite the impression given by heated debates in large countries like the United States.
Intelligent speeches, spirited debates and clever slogans were conspicuous by their absence in this election.
The government did make some media available and engaged in more than 10 live televised debates.
In line with the EU’s 1998 biotech directive, debates should occur on a country-by-country basis.
In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, there were debates about whether the ECB should be responsible for banking supervision and regulation.
The Humanities CrisisNEW YORK – A striking symmetry is emerging in debates about the future of higher education around the world.
Yet the privatization of intelligence raises many larger concerns familiar to the debates over private military and security companies (PMSCs).
The reality is that defense debates within Japan are invariably traumatic, based on sharp memories of the war and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
These debates are also traumatic for an institutional reason.
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