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He has been a forthright spokesman for women’s rights and a champion of environmental concerns, as well as a formidable advocate in arguing for debt reduction for the most heavily indebted nations.
He also has placed the World Bank at the center of the effort to help rebuild nations emerging from devastating civil conflict, from Bosnia to Sierra Leone to East Timor.
Conspicuously absent from the list of signatories is the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) – the only international body that Venezuelan authorities have invited to monitor the December election.
The hawks have trapped Israel in a demographic quandary, binding together two nations that are utterly different from each other.
We should ask, for example, whether it makes sense to repatriate powers and financial transfers from Brussels to Westminster, or if some powers and financing should instead be devolved to the regions and nations.
The convention should also look at the broader case for building a more federal UK, for codifying a new division of powers between London and the regions, and for replacing the unelected House of Lords with an elected Senate of the Nations and Regions.
In 1946 there were 76 independent nations, by 1996 there were 192.
In a truly integrated European and global economy there is no need for nations with different languages, traditions, and preferences to unite and coordinate a series of economic policies.
The victor of the Cold War now expects other nations to indulge its philosophy of self-righteousness.
At the same time, he indicated his intention to advance diplomacy aimed at strengthening the solidarity among Asian nations, founded on “the Japan-US alliance for the world and for Asia.”
And, obviously, only 16 nations within the 27-member EU’s free-trade area use the euro.
The European Union was the only group of nations that seriously considered implementing it.
Schmitt advocates a global order that universalizes the Monroe doctrine: great nations stake out inviolable zones of geographic influence, or Grossraum, from which they afford each other mutual respect.
By contrast, the friends of peace are those nations that are strong enough to establish political homogeneity within their borders and to uphold a global order of important sovereign players.
What is needed is a root and branch transformation of the way that economic activity is carried out in all Arab nations.
Recently, a desire for greater political respect has spurred Islamic nations to invest in technology, which is most visible in Pakistani and Iranian nuclear ambitions.
The key idea was that military power could be made obsolete if the “food chain” of military technologies was controlled by other nations.
Working closely with the Association of South-Eastern Asian Nations (ASEAN), we mediated between rebels and the government and oversaw the decommissioning of weapons.
Unsatisfied by material prosperity, the nations turned fiercely toward strife, internal or external.
Sadly, results are not much better in reading ability; again, the Latin American nations were at the bottom of the 40-country sample.
These countries’ commitments created the sense of responsibility, trust, and solidarity that enabled 195 nations not merely to agree on a one-off deal, but to set in motion a series of increasingly ambitious five-year cycles to phase out greenhouse-gas emissions this century.
The Dark Heart of ASEANWASHINGTON, DC – Next week, at a summit in California, US President Barack Obama will meet with the leaders of the ten countries of Asia’s most important regional grouping: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
This is true for actions contemplated by individual nations, temporary alliances, or more permanent alliances such as NATO.
The new system must, of course, reflect not only the size of populations but also the differing economic and military capabilities of nations.
The resolution is non-binding, but if nations were to enact laws putting it into effect, there can be no doubt that it would interfere with freedom of expression.
In the past, it was war, immense dislocation, and suffering that could weld nations.
The G-8 has been dismissed by history as a club of Western industrial nations; its place has been taken by the G-20, which conceals the underlying formula of power distribution within the new world order: the G-2 (China and the US).
Today, a democratic transition that the West sought to portray as a model that other Arab nations could emulate lies in tatters.
And there is evidence that they got advanced countries to pay more attention to poor nations.
A short list of such policies would include: carbon taxes and other measures to ameliorate climate change; more work visas to allow larger temporary migration flows from poor countries; strict controls on arms sales to developing nations; reduced support for repressive regimes; and improved sharing of financial information to reduce money laundering and tax avoidance.
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