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In The Anatomy of Fascism, Columbia University historian Robert O. Paxton writes that:“Fascism may be
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as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal constraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
The civil war continued for another six years, followed by a bumpy political aftermath: Syrian intervention and expulsion (two decades later), as the Lebanese
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their own fate with the US exercising only background influence.
Indeed, Article 53 of the Charter
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the formerly fascist Axis countries as "enemy states" of the UN, so that Italy had to wait until 1955 to become a member.
Unless its members respect the rules by which it is defined, it will wither.
Thus, in contrast to the West’s temporizing, the strategy of Assad’s allies is clearly defined: military victory for the regime, backed by ample supplies of weapons and, in the case of Iran, Lebanese proxy troops from Hezbollah on the ground.
After four years of a presidency supposedly devoted to forging a "dictatorship of law," the rule of law in Russia remains weak and property rights ill
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In 2005, a much higher percentage than in 2000
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themselves as “Iranian, above all” rather than “Muslim, above all.”
Originally
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as those who leave their countries because of fear of persecution, refugees now also include those forced to cross borders because of conflict and violence.
Israel wants an end to the conflict but is incapable of paying the price, whereas Hamas can better reconcile its ideology with a peace agreement with Israel if it is not
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as final.
The West’s Crisis of ConfidenceSTOCKHOLM – In an age
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by US President Donald Trump’s rage, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revisionism, and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s unbridled ambition, the international order is becoming increasingly disorderly, dysfunctional, and even dangerous.
The future it envisions will be
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wholly by conflicts between sovereign countries.
That distinction between state and people has long
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Western policy toward Russia.
The role of microfinance in boosting SMEs’ climate-change resilience needs to be more fully
defined.
Estrada literally
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plunder: as a senator in the early 1990’s, he was a member of the congress that crafted the law under which he was convicted.
As early as 2015, the average Arab will be forced to survive on less than 500 cubic meters of water per year, a level
defined
as severe scarcity.
Indeed, today’s global economic crisis, if not handled properly, could evolve into a full-scale political crisis – one
defined
by social unrest, weakened governments, and angry publics who have lost faith in their leaders and their future.
In the American political lexicon, taxes are
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as a denial of liberty.
Starting out with a fixed carbon price (or one within a
defined
range) assures incentives for business, while making it easy to anticipate resulting government revenue and effects on the cost of living.
Unless states Cominit themselves to workinq together in agreed procedures towards a jointly
defined
goal, that goal is unlikely to be reached.
In other words, the Jews, who based their identity in the diaspora on mythological memory and time, were now returning to its clear-cut elements: a territory
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by borders, and a detailed chronological understanding of their own history.
India’s borders were
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by British imperial administrators in 1913 – the MacMahon Line, which China rejects (though it accepts that line as its frontier with Burma, which was then part of British India).
In a recent speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Stephen Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, declared a revolution for American sovereignty,
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by economic nationalism and the “deconstruction of the administrative state.”
Clinton vs. Trump constitutes a genuine battle, for example, as does the European Union vs. the Brexiteers; but the combatants are accomplices, not foes, in perpetuating an endless loop of mutual reinforcement, with each side
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by – and mobilizing its supporters on the basis of – what it opposes.
This problem is aggravated by the fact that the ECB chooses its own inflation target, which was last
defined
in 2003 as “below, but close to, 2% over the medium term.”
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rightly
defined
the upcoming referendum as a “ticking time bomb.”
Untested – and ultimately incorrect – assumptions created a policymaking environment
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by what can only be called hubris.
While a UN General Assembly vote can hardly be
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as intervention, Israel is not willing to take any chances.
In engineering that shift, leaders should focus on developing the four pillars of a knowledge economy, as
defined
by the World Bank’s Knowledge Economy Index.
But successful interactions between these sectors cannot be wished into existence, and it is essential that the role of each is clearly
defined.
The argument for free trade is an argument for welfare, but welfare
defined
exclusively in terms of money.
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