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But, wherever the truth may lie, few critics take into account that he, like all former UN chief executives, has to deal with the reality that he possesses only moral power, not economic, military, or political power.
We share a political – and moral – responsibility to ensure that terrorists never get their hands on the world’s most dangerous materials.
But good reasons exist for diplomacy's amoral tradition; paradoxically, this tradition embodies important moral values.
If wars are fought on moral or religious grounds, no basis for restraint exists.
After all, to call something evil is to invoke a moral duty to destroy it.
At times dialogue with terrorists may be needed; there may be reason to avoid making this impossible by fixating too rigidly on moral imperatives and condemning all terrorists as unspeakable criminals.
The case for a morally neutral diplomacy remains more compelling than ever, for on closer inspection, it is also a case in favor a foreign policy based on clear moral values.
Most rebellions, after all, are moral as well as political.
The European Stability Pact for the Balkans is a decision not dictated by economic considerations but a result of political, strategic, and moral considerations.
The regulation was supported by religious groups for moral reasons, but also by bootleggers, because they had the market to themselves on Sundays.
Yet activists claimed that there was a moral obligation to cut carbon-dioxide emissions, and were cheered on by businesses that stood to gain.
The climate-change “Baptists” provide the moral cover that politicians can use to sell regulation, along with scary stories that the media can use to attract readers or viewers.
The balance of military, political, economic, and moral power has simply shifted too far away from the West to be reversed.
But even $0.70 for every $100 is still not a lot with which to confront one of the great moral problems of our age.
As a Swede, I have heard such pacific boasting all my life: that neutral Sweden is a moral superpower.
We are the moral continent.
Fortunately, the world will not have to wait for moral suasion to carry the day.
And the rich world does have a moral obligation to move first and faster – with policies, technologies, and finance – to reduce the emissions that cause global warming.
A moral but pragmatic community needs to be constructed, with all in agreement on how to deal with Myanmar.
From the beginning, even those who set the world on the path to nuclear weapons understood the mortal danger and moral challenge confronting humanity.
Stimson warned that “the world in its present state of moral advancement compared with its technical development would be eventually at the mercy of such a weapon.
When the MDGs were adopted in 2000, the sense of urgency was powered by the moral conviction that extreme poverty had become an unacceptable anachronism in our globally connected world.
Developing a new Euro-Atlantic strategy for the Black Sea region must start with the democracies of North America and Europe recognizing their moral and political stake in the outcome.
This model held a moral umbrella over the existing Westphalian state system, by creating a universal structure within which national governments could collaborate in the pursuit of progress.
And yet, just when this moral order was in a position to be fully realized around the world, it lost its center and began to drift.
If she does not defend the Rohingya, her aura of moral leadership may be dimmed among her own supporters, both at home and abroad.
By undermining the efficient allocation of capital and fostering mal-investment, CPI-focused monetary policy is distorting economic structures, blocking growth-enhancing creative destruction, creating moral hazard, and sowing the seeds for future instability in the value of money.
Such an approach would be less predictable and eliminate forward guidance, thereby discouraging excessive risk-taking and reducing moral hazard.
The relatively few professional economists who warned of the current crisis were people, it seems, who not only read the scholarly economics literature, but also brought into play more personal judgment: intuitive comparisons with past historical episodes; conclusions about speculative trading, price bubbles, and the stability of confidence; evaluations of the moral purposes of economic actors; and impressions that complacency had set in, lulling watchdogs to sleep.
EU farm policy has started to be reformed, and its share of the EU budget has fallen from over 60% to 40%;Britain has for several years enjoyed significantly faster economic growth than most other member states, so that it is now one of the richer EU countries, even compared with France and Germany; and the new member states are so much poorer than even the poorest of the old members, that they have an unanswerable moral case for a generous share of whatever budget could be negotiated.
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