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In The Outermost House, the American naturalist Henry Beston wrote, of nonhuman animals, “They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.”We
And it means convincing citizens that the EU, as a community of nations, offers the best chance to strengthen economic resilience, foster innovation, and preserve Europe’s cultures.
But, while there are currently more than 100,000 troops from various nations serving in UN peacekeeping missions around the world, member states are not providing adequate resources, training, and equipment.
At the same time, it has combined this hard-power approach with attractive soft-power activities in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as well as efforts to use its universities as hubs of regional non-governmental activities.
He does not need to modernize Russia so that it can actually compete with the world’s mightiest powers; he just needs to bluster enough that people – particularly his own – believe that Russia is once again among the first rank of nations.
Putin’s promise to restore national self-respect, shattered by Russia’s bitter loss of superpower status in 1991, is centered around cowing Europe into submissively accepting Russia’s sphere of “privileged interest” in the post-Soviet nations.
That Mr. Khodorkovsky is spending months in jail before he is formally charged tells us much about the nature of business, politics, and law in the nations of the former Soviet Union.
In fact, the US fails to achieve a single green ranking for any of the 17 SDGs, sharing this dubious honor with only Greece, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Spain, and Turkey, among OECD nations.
“Our success depends on a coalition of strong and independent nations that embrace their sovereignty to promote security, prosperity, and peace for themselves and for the world.”
This is why, until recently, wars could be justified only if they were fought in self-defense, or in defense of allied nations.
The Morality of Non-ProliferationNearly all the world’s nations are meeting in New York to review the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
But the nations of Western Europe allocated it.
At present, all fifteen member nations of the European Union are represented on its Board.
But the nations of the region are not.
The government intervenes in the economy less than in most advanced nations, and major social programs like universal health care are not as deeply embedded in the US as elsewhere.
Dawn, daybreak, "sunrise nations" and similar metaphors are popular these days, while sunset, quiet pause, nightfall, evoke stagnation, decline, disintegration or nothingness.
This Europe attracts; so no coincidence that in many countries outside this grouping we hear about their own "return to Europe", which means admission to the club of fortunate nations that lived on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
If adopted, this policy would set a new global standard and perhaps prompt other nations to follow suit.
Something similar happened last November, in a game between France and Ireland that decided which of the two nations went to the World Cup.
In the new context set by the war in Georgia, the urgency of Turkey becoming a real bridge between the nations of the Caucasus is not lost on anyone.
Each country is interested in knowing whether its policies and institutions stack up against those of other nations in the capacity to achieve and sustain economic growth.
East Asia’s nations, as well as Russia in 1998 and Argentina in 2001, exited their crises through devaluation.
Giving the Shia a real stake in the nations in which they live is the only way to satisfy the craving for empowerment that they feel after so many years of suppression.
As a result, fringe parties stepped in with slogans about countries being "swamped" by immigrants and the need to preserve the "purity" of nations.
Far fewer working-age persons--not only women; men too--belong to the labor force in most Continental nations than in the US..Middle-aged retirees and idle youth speak volumes.
It is hard, at least for me, to envision alternative political arrangements or economic policies over the past fifty years that would have transferred any significant portion of the wealth of today’s rich nations to today’s poor nations.
I can easily envision alternatives, such as Communist victories in post-World War II elections in Italy and France that would have impoverished nations now in the rich North.
I can also envision alternatives that would have enriched poor nations: Deng Xiaoping becoming China’s leader in 1956 rather than 1976 would have done the job there.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Thailand in late October brought all the key players of Asia together.
NATO’s leaders are, we are certain, aware of their first and foremost obligation: to do all they can to protect their nations’ citizens in the best possible way.
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