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Cameron’s desperation to win votes spurred him to call a referendum on Britain’s European Union membership, the result of which forced him to resign.
Uyghur membership in the Chinese Communist Party has declined, despite a nationwide increase in membership due to CCP placement of supporters in universities and lucrative jobs in the state and semi-private sectors.
NATO membership is not mere security protection, the price of which is a sad obligation to be ready to protect another country as the price for that country’s readiness to protect us.
And other European countries, even Ukraine, might one day seek membership.
Russian membership in the World Trade Organization has the potential to strengthen the rule of law, combat corruption, and give Russia a stake in better relations with the outside world.
Just as the global financial crisis has made euro membership seem more urgent and necessary than ever, euro incumbents have started floating proposals that would raise the bar for entry.
To make the quality of the banking system a new criterion for euro membership is not only hypocritical; it is also counterproductive.
Relatively high levels of inflation have been the main reason why euro membership was perceived as increasingly remote in most countries, and why the prospect of euro entry has had a diminishing impact on domestic reform efforts.
It is difficult to prove that membership in the EU – which opponents portray as meddlesome and disruptive – has made Britain materially worse off.
Its transformative power springs from the promise of potential membership, a “neighborhood policy” that exports European values, and its facilitation of global institution-building and copycat regional integration.
Britain’s post-referendum economic and political travails will make other EU member states think twice before holding their own popular votes on membership.
But Havel's domestic failures were more than offset by his foreign policy contributions: persuading America and Western Europe to enlarge NATO -an organization which, prior to 1989, he thought should be abolished, and advocating Czech membership in the European Union.
Expanding NATO is UnnecessaryWASHINGTON D.C.: Some time in 1997 the North Atlantic Alliance is expected to offer NATO membership to some or all of the four "Visegrad" countries: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
Furthermore, if NATO is a vehicle for reinforcing democracy then membership is being contemplated for the wrong countries.
Countries with the greatest cause for concern about Russia -- Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania -- are not to be offered NATO membership.
Russia's democrats, who have an enormous stake in a peaceful future, are adamant that extending alliance membership to Central Europe will isolate their country from Europe, strengthen Russian political forces that favor authoritarian rule at home and neoimperial policies abroad, and, by appearing to threaten Russia, provide a rallying point for reconstructing Russian military power.
Being inside Europe is thought to require full membership in the continent's two most important organizations, the EU and NATO.
NATO's Partnership for Peace, which offers close association with the Alliance without full membership (and which is acceptable to Russia), provides adequate guarantees for the security of Central Europe.
Now Germany is trying to devise a form of restricted EU membership which would exclude eastern Europe from the common agricultural market in order to protect a handful of Bavarian farmers.
In response, the Poles and Hungarians are gaining the confidence to demand that they will have full EU membership or none at all.
If offered nothing better than the political humiliation and economic constraints of second-class EU membership, perhaps they would prefer to stay out.
As soon as the issue of EU membership becomes a matter of cost-benefit analysis, rather than historical inevitability, bigger questions follow.
Instead of distorting their economies to qualify for second-class EU membership, perhaps they would be better off sheltering under Nato's umbrella and relying on global trading arrangements to seek their fortunes beyond Europe's shores.
Why should the opposing forces in Turkey behave with restraint if the moderating prospect of EU membership no longer exists?
The popular vote can’t be reversed but a signature collecting campaign could transform the political landscape by revealing a newfound enthusiasm for EU membership.
First, a clear distinction must be drawn between membership of the EU and of the eurozone.
Membership in the new BRICS grouping, many believed, did not provide a strong enough basis for cooperation.
But this option is all but foreclosed, because union membership or organizing can lead to dismissal, blacklisting, violence, or worse.
Given this, debates and negotiations involving the UK and its European partners will continue to feature deep disagreements over the restrictions and conditions that accompany membership in the EU.
The second question that the referendum poses for Europeans is the same one that the British are addressing: Is EU membership worthwhile?
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