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Dynamic, peaceful societies will never emerge across the Middle East unless all of their citizens embrace the lost art of compromise and embark on a consensual process of nation building.
September 11 was a traumatic event that shook the nation to its core.
Because America is the most powerful nation on earth, it ought to use that power more assertively.
President Bush managed to convince the nation that Saddam Hussein had some connection with the suicide bombers of September 11, and that he possessed weapons of mass destruction.
In battles for survival, whether in Yugoslavia or Israel, everyone sticks with his own tribe or nation, whether its policies are right or wrong.
Being the most powerful nation gives America privileges, but it also imposes obligations.
Indeed, a fundamental lesson of terrorist attacks and insurgencies, we now know, is that no nation, however self-sufficient, can afford to remain heedless of whether others sink or swim.
Indeed, if Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan’s founding father, had been right that Muslims are a separate nation, Bangladesh would not have broken away from it, and the country’s relations with its neighbor Afghanistan would be free of intrigue and violence.
Once again, we see how misplaced Western national priorities can bring ruin on a non-Western nation.
Some suggest that the SNP’s accession to power in Scotland does herald the rebirth of a nation, many others regard that claim as rhetoric which ignores the tremendous advances made in the quality of life, opportunity and living standards.
Without solutions that claim broad support, the Ivory Coast will likely join the grim list of the world’s failed states precisely because of its inability to develop into a cohesive nation based on equal political rights for all.
How can it be that people who are so negative about their common future as a nation go about confidently building their private futures within their families?
Is it willing to look the other way while a small nation destroys its democracy, violates human rights, and breaches its international covenants?
He hoped that Germany could be separated from Nazism, that Nazism could be destroyed without destroying Germany, thus preserving that great nation as a bulwark against the Soviet Union.
Europe, with more people than any nation except China and India, and the largest GDP in the world, must become one of the central pillars of such a world by projecting what has come to be called “soft power” – the power and influence of ideas and example.
It has never been easy for a nation to face up honestly to the bitter fact of having committed war crimes, genocide, unjustified foreign aggression, or having mistreated and killed its own people.
It argued convincingly for the importance of supporting science and technology institutions in every nation that focus on harnessing the increasing store of international scientific and technical knowledge to meet that nation’s needs.
My thesis is that the degree of dynamism in a nation's economy hinges on its development of some key economic institutions - company law and corporate governance, the population's preparation for business life, the development of financial instruments such as the stock market and so forth.
Yet we continue to believe that social cohesion can be limited to that of the nation.
Obama referred to the US as “the indispensable nation,” and that description still holds true, in part because US military spending exceeds that of the next nine countries combined – five times more than China, the world’s second-largest military spender.
No other nation – not China, Europe, India, or Russia – has the power and the sense of mission to take on America’s role.
Madeleine Albright once called the US the “indispensable nation.”
They regard the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany as the highest achievement of the state and nation that they inherited from the USSR.
The UN insists that Resolution 1701 does not mandate that the UN disarm Hezbollah; almost no nation other than Israel is willing to charge its soldiers with that task.
Many have read and seen enough to feel acute shame about being part of a nation that could go to war with righteous ideas and end up replicating, if not aggravating, the abuses of the "rogue state" Americans called their enemy.
The source of that shame is not any particular act, but simply being part of a nation that could behave so arrogantly as to disregard international law and the United Nations by invading a country that was not threatening America, and then sending untrained military police to keep prisoners in line by any means they happen to devise.
At first, the administration claimed that an impending conflict would not necessarily be bad, because differing opinions are inevitable; or, in the words of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, “diversity makes our nation strong.”
The authorities like to paint themselves as the victims of a powerful giant set on smothering a nation and its united people, but such a victim's face cannot be found when you look closely.
The nation is not a united citizenry, but rather a mediocre country created through the universal gagging of its people.
Debates over the Taj Mahal’s position as a symbol of multicultural India have yet to be settled, yet the nation is already being torn apart further by another cultural controversy – this time, over a film.
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