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Those using terror, whether in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen and the list could go on and on, do so to de-stabilise nations and to thwart the will of the people to live in peace.
The actions and decisions of one man or woman, no matter how powerful, cannot determine the destiny of nations.
Constitutionally, European nations display characteristic richness.
It saddens me that great nations like Italy and France are going in the wrong direction and falling behind with the pledges they made four years ago at the G-8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland.
Africa still imports about one-third of the food, beverages, and similar processed goods it consumes, whereas the Association of Southeast Asian Nations imports about 20%, and South America’s Mercosur trade bloc imports just 10%.
We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to “build nations.”
The world's indebted nations, unfortunately known as the Third World, transfer capital to the rich nations by paying interest on their foreign liabilities.
The northern countries, unfortunately known as the First World, use the hunger and poverty of southern nations to ensure a better life for themselves.
Argentina's foreign debt was generated during the military dictatorships, when the rich nations of the north provided credit to despots and sold them weapons to repress their people.
Obama’s example – and that of his newly formed cabinet, which includes many accomplished leaders from ethnic or racial “out-groups” – holds useful lessons for other nations, particularly in Western Europe.
First, America’s national story is different in essence from those of Western European nations.
In some Islamic nations – Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, for instance – sodomy is a crime for which the maximum penalty is death.
Nuclear Steps Undermine PeaceBy abandoning many of the nuclear arms agreements negotiated in the last 50 years, the United States has been sending mixed signals to North Korea, Iran, and other nations with the technical knowledge to create nuclear weapons.
The key restraining commitment among the five original nuclear powers and more than 180 other nations is the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
The role of these nations and the IAEA is not to prevent India’s development of nuclear power or even nuclear weapons, but rather to assure that it proceeds as almost all other responsible nations on earth do, by signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty and accepting other reasonable restraints.
Many nations, large and small, are now well on the way to meeting this projection.
Does Germany think that its gold will be subject to sanctions or some form of confiscation – as sometimes happens to rogue nations?
The nationalists of these small nations are leading their countries down a path to a fresh series of catastrophes, in which they appear and disappear from the map like television ads.
It would not have protected European and other nations from becoming awash in toxic mortgage assets exported from the US.
It would also have a dampening impact on the long-term prospects for reform in Belarus by creating an eastern bloc of Slavic nations suspicious of the West.
In so doing, China can serve as a model not only for developing nations, but for the whole world.
Burma’s Drug Lord GeneralsThe news blackout imposed by Burma’s military junta on its decision to forego its turn as chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next year shows that it has received a severe blow to its prestige.
Indeed, it may seek to use this precedent to re-establish its authority over the nations and territories that were once part of the Soviet Union.
That will not be easy to achieve in a globally competitive economy in which some nations have demonstrably less respect for individual human rights than others.
All nations must work together to revise our models for international cooperation in a way that incorporates the global shift in economic power.
We can and must react positively, and we can do so by returning to basics and offering to Europe’s nations, including the French and the Dutch, new challenges and a new spirit.
Enlargement of the EU is not only an economic duty to be borne by the richest nations; it is also the recognition of a common history and a shared culture.
We need founding fathers – or mothers – and nations moved by a clear understanding of their interests and a popular enthusiasm for European integration.
Of course, strategic stability, trust among nations, and the settlement of regional conflicts would all help to advance the process of disarmament.
But the EU has created a political society in Europe such as has never existed before: a continuous process among Europe’s nations that enables adaptation of policies and institutions to tackle problems as they arise – and to tackle them together.
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