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Now that many European nations have become increasingly mixed in terms of ethnicity and culture, the only way forward is to learn to live together.
This seems to be Henry Kissinger’s ultimate dream – a dream that one can glimpse in his latest book, Germanically entitled World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History.
This shift to a complex, information-based global economy effects the way nations behave.
Murder rates in Europe and other Western industrialized nations are lower, often much lower, than those in the US.
The nations of Asia have a particular affection for him, owing to the years he spent as a child in Indonesia.
By strategizing “out of the box” and finding ways to link Obama’s Asian agenda with that of their own nations, Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and other Asian leaders will be able to truly make the Pacific the central focus of the Obama administration’s diplomacy.
This is the same UN whose officials took kickbacks from the Iraqi oil for food program and jetted around the world on Concorde while supposedly trying to ameliorate poverty, and whose Commission on Human Rights was until recently chaired by Libya and now includes five of the world's fifteen most repressive nations - China, Cuba, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan.
Latin America’s Corruption ChallengeCOPENHAGEN -- It is difficult to distinguish the consequences from the causes of the corruption that bedevils many Latin American and Caribbean nations.
In their book Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson argue that societies with political arrangements that concentrate power in the hands of a few seldom excel at innovation and growth, because innovators have no guarantee they will keep the fruits of their labors.
In working to promote human rights, political reform, and democratization in China, Liu has made a significant contribution to the values of peace and fraternity among nations that Nobel had in mind when he created the award more than a century ago.
With the US and many other nations now hooked on buying from China, Chinese policymakers no longer need to maintain an undervalued currency.
We will create a new mechanism for coordinating additional financing for food security to help vulnerable nations weather the storm.
Our analysis investigated, for example, the merits of more targeted policies for the near term: purchasing mosquito-resistant bed nets and oral re-hydration malaria therapy for children in the poorest nations affected by climate change.
Through the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) and the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), Brazil is helping to integrate the region politically, economically, socially, and culturally.
The example posed by the Baltic nations does not threaten the Kremlin much, because they are perceived as foreign to the Russian psyche.
In some nations, this return can be as high as $166 per dollar spent.
Because the Arabs had no corresponding historical model from which to learn how to relate to the phenomenon that had overtaken them, they tried to interpret Zionism as colonialism, and thought that other nations’ fight against colonialism provided a model for resistance.
Indeed, never before has the question of legitimacy been so fundamental to a conflict between nations.
Although recognition of Israeli nationality is increasingly widespread, even among most nations of the Middle East, it remains obstructed by two closely related – and dangerous – notions.
When the world’s nations decided in favor of the creation of an independent Jewish state, they did not designate it only for the 600,000 Jews then living there.
Both Palestinians and Israelis, as two different nations, deserve their own states.
Perhaps Havel's biggest failure was that he did not grasp as quickly as others, including his main political rival, Vaclav Klaus, that Czechoslovakia as a federal state of two nations was doomed after 1989.
In fact, the Latin American members of the "group of friendly nations" trying to mediate this conflict can draw on interesting experiences to design such a solution.
It is to be hoped that the group of friendly nations can help design an innovative solution to Venezuela's standoff.
Pressure from the group of friendly nations may induce both sides to accept this last chance to avoid a political and economic meltdown.
Everybody is familiar with the jostling for power in Brussels among west European nations, but as Eastern Europe emerges from economic crisis, its people will begin asserting their national interests over those of the EU.
The EU is no longer a beacon of hope to the newly liberated nations.
If countries like Poland, the Czech Republic and even tiny Slovenia start to feel that they could survive as independent nations in a peaceful Eurasian continent why should they subsume themselves in a multinational superstate?
Nations need not be ethnically based; few are entirely.
But most nations are unified by language, a shared history of oppression, or some other force of history.
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