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The Navajo Nation Police as they are portrayed in this film make me cringe, not to mention the Navajo culture and people.
After the end of the United States Civil War, the recovering nation turns to the building of the unsettled west.
Glad to see a TV special that tackles the subject honestly and does not sugarcoat the evils of this nation's history.
In large part out of concern for human rights, the Charter prohibits one nation's use of force against another unless the Security Council authorizes the attack or unless the attack is a self-defensive response to armed aggression across recognized borders.
No nation on earth more aggressively enforces international human rights law against other countries.
And no nation on earth more aggressively resists the application of international human rights law to itself.
If one nation -- say, Yugoslavia -- is otherwise inclined to abuse its citizens, it will perceive no reciprocal benefit from compliance with an international norm that requires greater respect for human rights.
A nation like Yugoslavia is unlikely to comply with international human rights law unless other nations -- say, NATO -- sanction non-compliance.
It is also why the rare enforcement of human rights law that we do see tends to conform to the enforcing nation's political interests.
States are notoriously imperfect even at the nation level.
India’s Democracy at 60At midnight on August 15, 1947, a new nation was born on a subcontinent ripped apart by a bloody partition.
A less propitious start for a fledgling nation could scarcely be imagined.
He wants to come back, to revisit all that he has left behind, in the meantime helping his nation to become economically strong, technically advanced, and prosperous.
Yet Trump has decided unilaterally to impose “the highest level of economic sanction” on Iran and on “any nation that helps Iran in its quest for nuclear weapons.”
Each nation feels that it has been humiliated and demonized by the other.
First, as the Helsinki Final Act put it, every sovereign nation has an inherent right “to belong or not to belong to international organizations, to be or not to be a party to bilateral or multilateral treaties, including the right to be or not to be a party to treaties of alliance; they also have the right to neutrality.”
Reagan captured this assumption well, recalling the sixth-century BC Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu’s famous words: “Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish: too much handling will spoil it.”
Japan’s diplomatic isolation strengthens those in the Chinese leadership who have long sought to marginalize what is economically and militarily still Asia’s most powerful nation, while sucking other states in the region deeper into China’s shadow.
Three times in their history – in 1937,1947, and 2000 – the Palestinians were offered a state, and three times their leaders failed to meet the challenge – admittedly never an easy one for a nation built on such an unwavering ethos of dispossession.
In general, competition in science and technology is a blessing – the more advanced a nation is, the better a customer it is.
Many American politicians and citizens felt that the U.S. had no business helping a former rival nation that still had more than 10,000 nuclear warheads.
The politically correct policy of affirming each nation's right to self-determination, including the establishment of an independent state, leads to the emergence of more incompetent regimes.
Eight of the countries that will enter the European Union in May 2004 were until recently governed by totalitarian dictatorships and enslaved by another nation.
The weapons of shame and international opprobrium should be mustered to make it impossible for any democratic nation to legitimize a coup in another democratic country.
Yet, it was no accident that two military men were key to making the US a “respectable nation” in financial terms.
With seven separate rates, the GST has certainly not fulfilled the goal of “one nation, one tax.”
Or should it instead be seen as a magnifying glass, if not sometimes a distorting mirror, that reveals on the playing field the frustrations, fears, ambition, or hope of a nation?
Agnes Binagwaho, a co-founder of UGHE who is a former minister of health and an adjunct professor at Harvard Medical School, once said to me, “Why would I want to raise my children in a nation where all children don’t get the same medical care as they do?”
The reason for examining output per person rather than output per hour worked is simple: what determines a nation's wealth is how much each person works, and how many people work.
Yet the United States remains the world’s only superpower, the only nation that matters in every part of the globe, the only country capable of mobilizing international action to tackle global problems.
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