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The end to Western consumerism is not yet at hand, but high commodity prices are a clear warning that big adjustments will be needed as Asia and other emerging nations begin to consume a larger share of the global pie.
That little noted system of protection is the one mandated by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968, signed by 185 nations, which created two tiers of states.
The first consisted of the five nations possessing nuclear weapons (America, Russia, Britain, France, and China), which promised (under the Treaty's Article Six) to get rid of them; the second consisted of nations that lacking nuclear weapons, which promised not to get them.
The NPT was an abolition treaty, specifying that non-nuclear nations would start at the goal of zero nuclear weapons, and that nuclear-armed nations would commit themselves to reaching that goal.
Nuclear-armed nations built nearly 100,000 nuclear weapons, bearing the explosive power of about a million six hundred thousand Hiroshima-size bombs.
India was in effect saying that if there were to be two classes of nations in the post-Cold-War world, then India was going to be in the first class.
Transforming Communist EconomiesCHICAGO: The very different paths taken toward market economies by the ex-communist nations provides a remarkable laboratory on how to transform centrally planned economies.
Hungary, Poland, Romania, and most other ex-communist nations have delayed privatizing medium and large enterprises until their government managers "restructured" employment, accounting practices, and the product mix.
A more accurate portrait of the wealth of nations must account not only for income, but also for natural and social assets.
But, if the eurozone is to survive and prosper beyond the current crisis, it will also need comprehensive structural reforms to boost internal labor mobility and defuse the pressures caused by economic adjustment among nations and regions.
It is not too late to recall Venezuela to the camp of free and democratic nations.
Unshackling ASEANSINGAPORE – As the Association of Southeast Asian Nations approaches its 50th anniversary next year, its failure to reach a consensus regarding Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea has raised concerns throughout the region.
Nearly two thirds of those troops – some 30,000 of them – are from EU nations.
To remember and reflect on how we have wronged other people and nations may benefit a country’s citizens as much as celebrating great deeds.
Some blame an unfair world trading system, in which wealthy nations knock down all trade barriers except their own.
This keeps small businesses in poor nations and regions from reaching their full potential.
But ultimately, private investment must be the main source of income growth and job creation in poor countries--just as it is in industrialized nations.
Nations must act now to ensure that everyone – regardless of wealth, ethnicity, sex, or religion – has the same rights, and that these rights are enshrined in laws at the time they are enacted.
They must, instead, encourage nations positively to promote the principle of equal rights in keeping with current interpretations of international obligation.
First, nations faced with conflicting claims to water have historically found ways to collaborate rather than to fight.
There simply is not enough water for everything these nations want to use it for, and the situation will only worsen.
(The UN, the European Union, and the Union of South American Nations, focusing on other priorities, have avoided becoming collectively involved.)
Indeed, organizations that are officially committed to involving all nations in their decision making are often controlled by small groups of powerful nations, while others merely go through the motions of participation.
The World Trade Organization (WTO), supposedly run on the principle of one country one vote, actually has its agenda selected behind the stage by a small group of nations.
For it is not only morally wrong to leave nations and communities feeling marginalized and without voice; it is a recipe for frustration, rage, and terrorism.
The acknowledged uncertainty about the “climate sensitivity” parameter implies that it makes no sense to decide now, through some multinational diplomatic process, what the ultimate ceiling on greenhouse gas concentrations must be, and then using this ceiling as a basis for allotting quotas to participating nations.
Unfortunately, however, the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent invasion – without UN authority – of Iraq underscore the primacy of military solutions in the strategic thinking of affluent nations.
If we are to close the global gap in personal security and economic well-being, the community of nations will need to cultivate a new ethos of mutual responsibility.
The G-8 nations and the global alliance that America leads must aim not merely to defeat terrorism.
Yankee Bases Go HomeRIO DE JANEIRO – Last month, the leaders of all 12 countries of South America (except one) gathered in Quito, Ecuador’s capital, for the summit of the Union of South American Nations.
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