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Putin can manipulate Ukraine not because there is a shred of credibility to his claim that the Russian minority there faces persecution, but because Ukraine’s corrupt democracy failed to build a truly self-sustaining nation.
Indeed, under Chirac, France appears increasingly arrogant, a nation convinced of the righteousness of its views and the universality of its model - the very charges so often levelled against George W. Bush's America.
In February, Fiji became the first nation to ratify the treaty, followed by three other small island states.
At stake is the cohesion of a state that many argue is yet another example of an artificial nation cobbled together by Europeans who did not understand their creation’s social, tribal, and religious forces.
Ethnic relations in this highly diverse nation are as good as they are anywhere in the world.
It could then be seen, in a bicameral system, as a kind of “Chamber of Nations” within the framework of what Jacques Delors called a “federation of nation states.”
And in return for his sacrificial services to the Turkish nation, he is entitled to be above all laws and to enrich himself and his close associates.
Simply put, Europe’s nation states are too small to address a crisis of this dimension on their own.
That includes raising taxes on those earning more than $250,000 a year, and using the money to extend health insurance to the tens of millions of Americans who – uniquely for an industrialized nation – do not have it.
That may sound like hyperbole, but raising the temperature and reducing the rainfall of a predominantly agricultural nation can be as devastating to its people as dropping bombs on it.
When there is a dispute between a small nation and a large nation, the UN steps in and the small nation disappears.
The US is a nation of immigrants – the best in the world at integrating new arrivals.
But, for Abe, the TPP’s value for Japan’s sense of identity – that it is now a more outward-looking nation – is just as important.
In fact, it is a description of one of Wilders’s spiritual ancestors, the Calvinist theologian Gijsbert Voet (Gisbertus Voetius), the self-proclaimed protector of the Dutch nation, who later became the rector of the University of Utrecht.
Rather, they should suggest a treaty binding every nation to spend, say, 0.1% of GDP on research and development of non-carbon-emitting energy technologies.
Iraq’s Economic DivideEveryone who looks at Iraq sees a nation divided between Shia, Sunni, and Kurd communities.
This is one of those rare times that I have seen Pakistan’s people feel and move together as a nation.
At the same time, however, many Americans cherish national myths, no less foundational in their way, which are in direct opposition to the idea of a nation of laws.
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir of the Polish Academy of Sciences goes even further: “In a psychoanalytical sense, [PiS] policies – running away from shame and responsibility – are dragging us back into childhood, even into the womb, in which the child is indistinguishably entwined with its host – the nation.”
The result is the “sinless nation” envisioned by the PiS.
Such disparities do not arise from different historical experiences, because Koreans have shared a history for thousands of years as one nation.
In an age when self-determination is a hallowed principle how is it possible that Taiwan - which has been part of China during only four of the last eleven decades, and has never been under the control of the People's Republic of China - is shunned by every nation when it deigns to wonder aloud why it should not be allowed to go its own way?
So Putin recently addressed the time-lag problem in a disarmingly simple way: in his state of the nation address in April, he demanded 8% growth this year, not the tepid 3-4% rate his government's ministers were targeting.
A housing boom in a nation of renters might actually lead to lower aggregate consumption.
The Indian idea is that a nation may contain different castes, creeds, colors, convictions, cuisines, costumes, and customs, yet still rally around a consensus.
Likewise, ethnic nationalism drove Hitler’s assault on the European order: the Sudetenland was mostly German, and the Austrian Anschluss was aimed at merging the two vital parts of the German nation.
Koizumi also pledged that “Japan, as a peace-loving nation, will work to achieve peace and prosperity for all humankind with all its resources.”
Muslims living in Paris, London, and Berlin are more religious than the general public, but they are just as likely as anyone else to identify with their nation and its democratic institutions, and just as likely to reject violence.
No nation threatens China’s land borders.
Indeed, when China was awarded the Olympic Games in 2001, the country’s official news agency, Xinhua called it a “milestone in China’s rising international status and a historical event in the great renaissance of the Chinese nation.”
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