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Given their experiences with the drawn-out enlargement process, most candidate countries are leery about the motives of some large EU countries.
This step, and its motives, are without precedent.
With this in mind, the North Koreans’ motives in playing the nuclear trump card are clear, and the timing couldn’t have seemed more advantageous for them: force the Americans into making concessions while the situation in Iraq leaves the US with no room for maneuver, and undercut the rising call in Japan for economic sanctions against North Korea over the abduction issue.
And non-economic motives and socially cooperative behavior are increasingly part of what economists study.
In practical terms, whereas the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders believe in neutrality and remain skeptical of the motives of outside states that might intervene, Kouchner’s view is that humanitarian action should be understood as part of what the Canadian writer-politician Michael Ignatieff calls a “revolution of concern.”
In fairness to Sarkozy, his motives in appointing Kouchner had more to do with wrong-footing his Socialist adversaries than with the “droit d’ingerence.”
Nor do the other ancient motives for Western interference apply any longer.
Such policies are deployed not to extract advantages from other countries, but because other competing domestic objectives – distributional, administrative, or related to public health – dominate economy-wide motives.
They are prone to attribute concerns about globalization to crass protectionist motives or ignorance, even when there are genuine ethical issues at stake.
In impugning the authors’ motives and criticizing the uses to which others have put their research, critics of Reinhart and Rogoff have taken their eye off the ball.
The real problem is scholarly procedures and priorities, not motives.
And the so-called Beijing-Moscow consensus, built as it is on narrow economically minded motives, would be no less ruinous.
Anti-Semitism comes in waves, and each historical epoch provides its motives.
While they grudgingly loosened their purse strings to support Greece, the underlying motives were too shortsighted, and the resulting approach was strategically flawed and abysmally coordinated.
Leaders should not become entangled in details that fuel suspicion of their counterparts’ motives, lest they lose sight of the bigger picture.
If I did not believe that, I would oppose capital punishment, because revenge and other possible motives should not be a basis for public policy.
Our delegation was also told that the authorities are examining several motives, but have not ruled out – or pinpointed – any single one.
In the few instances where the US took steps to alter the behavior of repressive states, Europe's governments and peoples expressed open skepticism about the sincerity of America's humanitarian motives.
Indeed, given the money at stake, enhanced oil recovery could actually be one of the motives behind the push for CCS.
Altiero Spinelli, the late Italian European federalist, wrote that German racism, which incited World War II, may have been occasioned by, but was not caused by, economic motives.
The most likely explanation is that both motives are at work.
One of its backers’ main motives was to boost Europe’s political integration.
These and other motives are fueling the Philippines’ cycle of corruption, and undermining any attempt to reestablish effective policing.
This may help explain why T3 in Beijing is such a success, and why Chinese are now more united than ever before in condemning attempts to hijack or sully the Olympics for ulterior motives.
True, Iran’s total halt of its enrichment program would be welcome, not least because its government has hidden these activities for almost two decades from Treaty inspectors, suggesting other than purely civilian motives.
Assange’s motives, as far as I know, are not anti-American, but anti-authority.
One should always be careful about attributing motives to other people’s views.
One may or may not agree with Kouchner’s policies, but his motives are surely impeccable.
Skeptics of the AU’s motives focus on Article 46A (bis) in the amendment to the court’s statute, which prohibits the prosecution of “any serving AU head of state or government…or other senior state officials based on their functions, during their tenure of office.”
In assessing the motives behind the amendment, these two categories of officials should be treated separately.
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