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The High Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa both ruled in the SALC’s favor, but Zuma’s government thwarted their decisions by helping Bashir slip out of the country.
Another factor behind recent decisions to withdraw from the ICC is an ongoing campaign among some countries to accuse the court of singling out African leaders.
As Atul Gawande of Harvard University’s School of Public Health has shown, simple checklists can be effective in both collecting data and making better decisions.
But the first step is ensuring that we have the best peer-reviewed knowledge available to make sound decisions; the forthcoming IPBES assessments will move us in that direction.
And he has long clung to this rule, despite a lack of evidence that it would have delivered better results than the Fed’s actual policy decisions since the 1970s.
Yet that is exactly what is needed to make decisions on behalf of an entire community.
The danger is that politicians can use a referendum to avoid responsibility for difficult decisions.
But if countries still want the option of referenda, they should impose formal rules that help to ensure that politicians cannot use them to dodge difficult decisions.
Research showing that people make decisions based on relevant evidence is harder to publish, much less publicize.
So psychology has an inbuilt bias against the view that we make decisions in sensible ways.
In making ethical decisions, our ability to reason has a crucial role to play.
First, governments could be bound more firmly to their predecessors’ policy decisions.
Running clinical trials under the auspices of affected countries’ health ministries and the WHO – with full transparency in terms of processes and outcomes – would enable the relevant authorities to make timely and informed decisions regarding which treatments and vaccines to investigate further and when to deploy them.
Such clubs give girls the confidence and skills they need to take control of the major decisions in their lives – including whether, when, and whom they will marry.
Born in 1952, Abdel-Jalil had taken some tentative steps to establish the rule of law even under Qaddafi, once famously declaring before the Colonel himself that “I make my decisions based on the law.”
It also decrees that a majority of more than 80% of shareholder votes is required for important decisions in the company.
This, together with the rule that all decisions, even in the area of state aid, must be approved by a majority of Commissioners, suggests that the Commission is set to become much more lenient on state aid and competition policy.
And, on the US side of the equation, Trump cannot simply dictate quotas for companies, which must base their decisions on market conditions.
With a list of assets in hand, and a proper understanding of their market value, taxpayers, politicians, and investors can better reckon with the long-term consequences of political decisions.
But in reality a member’s actual power is what affects common decisions.
During the 41 years of the Cold War, 14 of NATO’s 16 members strictly obeyed and complied with American decisions and policies.
This is not the time for rash decisions or unproductive recrimination.
As Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who supports remaining in the customs union, has emphasized, a country with the heft and influence of the UK cannot be viewed as merely following EU decisions, over which it has no influence.
The UK’s demand to weigh in on EU decisions can and should be accommodated, with experts from the UK included in the committees that decide trade policy.
The EU’s legal structure cannot allow a non-member state to participate in binding decisions.
This calls for something of a gentlemen’s agreement, with the EU pledging to take UK interests into account when making trade-policy decisions.
After decades of globalization and technological progress, countries are more interconnected than ever, with policy decisions made in one country having far-reaching spillover effects.
But the West will benefit only if it takes the right long-term decisions on the biggest economic questions – what to do about deficits, financial institutions, trade wars, and global cooperation?
Not so long ago, a BoE governor took pride in clouding decisions in decent obscurity.
But, while member states must agree unanimously on all key decisions, their mandates oblige them to view EU issues through the prism of national interest.
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