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But in the short run there is a real danger that Russia will pursue its age-old aspiration of becoming part of Europe by seeking to become the dominant entity.
While the Security Council would be able to grant legally binding membership status, a vote in the General Assembly would simply upgrade a Palestinian entity to the status of a “non-member state” – like the Vatican.
Another reason why guilt does not capture our situation is that the collective debt must be owed to some coherent collective entity, such as the Jewish people in the Holocaust.
But Iraq has already degenerated into so many rival factions that apart from the abused prisoners, there is no identifiable entity America has wronged and to whom it is indebted.
Europe is self-absorbed, focused on creating whatever kind of entity it ends up deciding to be.
But Turkey remains unwilling to countenance an autonomous Kurdish entity along its border.
Despite these risks, many British politicians believe that they can satisfy voters at the expense of “Europe,” perpetuating the idea that ties with the EU – a supposedly homogeneous foreign entity – amount to little more than a disposable convenience.
Their domain encompasses banks, other depository institutions, insurance companies, securities firms, pension funds, finance companies - indeed, just about any entity that conducts financial transactions.
Of course, all such worries would be dispelled if the International Monetary Fund or some other entity would serve as a fast and effective global lender of last resort.
Nonetheless, the EU that emerged – which pools sovereignty sufficiently to benefit from being a powerful regional entity in a world of almost 200 countries while maintaining its members’ distinct languages and cultures – is something new.
What can continue to justify a political entity after the urgent realities and convictions that drove its establishment have faded to the pages of history and civics books or, at best, are the subject of grandparents’ stories?
When a common DGS does become feasible, it should be combined with a new European Resolution Authority (ERA), an independent supervisory entity that follows, to some degree, the example of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the United States and Japan’s Deposit Insurance Corporation.
More generally, China probably looks less appealing to investors now than it did a few years ago, not so much because of the Chinese economy as a whole, but because of constraints on the ability of any foreign entity to make serious long-term profits.
Still, Turkey remained an unstable political entity.
An entity that is authoritarian and hierarchical in nature cannot be relied on to protect and promote a democratic transition.
Unlike the US – which has apparently abandoned economic logic in its search for quick “wins” on trade – the EU is a slow-moving entity that generally prioritizes economic logic above geopolitical considerations and favors long-term agreements.
Tolerance becomes the cardinal European virtue in this vision, and the EU’s character as an entity with federal law but without federal statehood is viewed as a strength, not a weakness.
Europe has always been and remains one indivisible political entity, diverse, intricately structured.
Unless democrats proceed in a timely manner to build Europe’s internal structure as a single political entity, others will build it their way -- and democrats will be left with only their eyes to cry.
On the contrary: Only an entity conscious of its own identity can be a good and equal partner for cooperation with others.
The Islamic State, an offshoot of Al Qaeda, probably will not succeed in creating a viable, cross-border entity, but its brutal effort and Islamist ideology certainly suggest that the old borders, and the states delineated by them, are on their way out.
Sudan – a vast, multiethnic, and multi-confessional country, established as a political entity by the British in the 1890s – is continuing to fray.
The two provinces of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, which Italy wrested from the Ottomans just before WWI, were forced together into an entity called “Libya,” despite their profound historical and cultural differences.
For all of its internal tribulations, there is no doubt that Egypt is a coherent entity, deeply anchored in history and in the consciousness of its population.
Although this unit was also a separate legal entity, AIG guaranteed its obligations toward derivative counterparties.
Because IS is a territorially based entity, there must be a ground dimension if the effort is to progress; after all, only ground forces can take and hold territory.
The EU must decide whether it represents a community of values or a narrowly defined geographic entity whose exclusionary impulses will eventually erode its global relevance.
There is a world of difference between an association of nation states bound together by treaty, and a single entity, whether you call it a state or not, with its own legal personality, deriving its authority from its own constitution.
India’s nationhood resides in a non-territorial civilizational entity.
But that does not mean that a corporation is the right entity to engage in altruism – though its various stakeholders obviously can spend any portion of the income they earn from the corporation and other sources in altruistic ways.
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