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Nationalism has been the major motive force in the West since the beginning of the modern period.
Historians have noted its influence in Elizabethan England (which produced the spirit animating the Puritan Rebellion and migration to America), and increasingly recognize it as the motive force behind the French and the Russian Revolutions.
That is why competition for national prestige has been the main motive in international politics since the beginning of the twentieth century.
The second reason that 1929 has been popular with academic and political commentators is that it provides a clear motive for taking particular policy measures.
Whatever the warped motive of the 22-year-old Abedi, who evidently blew himself up along with the innocent victims, his reprehensible act will not tarnish Manchester’s bright, hopeful future.
But the market system relies on a particular motive for action – Keynes called it “love of money” – which tends to undermine traditional moral teaching.
But the most plausible motive for the assassination relates to Litvinenko’s plan to testify about Putin’s ties to Spain-based Russian organized crime – ties that dated back to the 1990s, when Putin was Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg.
As Harvard’s Robert Barro has recently pointed out, fear of a general or unpredictable catastrophe – even one that spares a subset of assets that cannot be specified in advance – will not affect relative asset prices, because investors have no motive to sell or buy any particular asset.
I do not claim to know the answer; but, as in any criminal investigation, the motive of possible suspects is always the right place to start.
A convergence of interests and a profoundly emotional attitude to Israel’s story and to the Jewish narrative since the Holocaust have been the motive forces behind what is perhaps one of the most intriguing alliances in international relations.
The real motive behind this is the regime’s distaste for Islam.
But he undoubtedly has a domestic motive as well, rooted in the growing prosperity gap between eastern and western China.
The identity of nations, their ethos, has always been a defining motive in their strategic priorities.
The sense of keeping one’s obligations and commitments to other allies, upon whom one’s own security ultimately depends, is a powerful motive for equitable burden-sharing.
Oil is America's Motive for WarAll around the world people ask: what is the real motive for the Bush Administration's threatened war with Iraq?
If status was an important motive for Putin’s actions in Crimea, the West’s response may have a greater impact than many now believe.
With the bulk of its baby boomers retiring in the coming decade, Germany has a valid motive to save.
Whatever America’s motive, it later wisely decided to join the UN effort.
What the authorities have not yet found, however, is a motive.
The US Congress, for example, defines terrorism as including a motive to coerce or intimidate a population or influence a government.
If the motive of the airline hijackers was simply to kill infidels, their attack would fall outside the Congressional definition.
Capitalism would have done its work, and the profit motive would resume its place in the rogues’ gallery.
But there was also another motive driving the bidders.
The criteria of legitimacy are that the atrocities occurring or feared are sufficiently serious to justify, prima facie, a military response; that the response has a primarily humanitarian motive; that no lesser response is likely to be effective in halting or averting the harm; that the proposed response is proportional to the threat; and that the intervention will do more good than harm.
The US motive in mobilizing air power to protect them is unquestionably humanitarian.
The SNB's motive, it appears, was entirely political.
No motive other than ideology can explain Trump’s open hostility to the bloc, his bizarre ambassadorial appointment, or his notorious question to EU President Donald Tusk: “What country is next to leave?”
But was money Yunus’s ultimate motive?
This instinct was a primary motive for the disintegration of the USSR, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia, as well as Chechen and Kurdish separatism, and the resurgence of regionalist and ethnic factions in the last Indian elections.
A further motive for monetary reform has been to head off more drastic surgery to the established order.
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