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Because the poor nations would, it seemed, always be with us, there was a permanent role for proposals to share the wealth through some kind of New International Economic Order.
And the old division of the world into rich and poor nations has also, of course, broken down.
On the contrary, in the 1990s the world's fast-growing countries are all newly industrializing economies, mainly in Asia, while advanced nations are stagnating -- even Japan now seems to be stuck in a rut.
If the Gorbachev conference -- or any of a dozen other high-level conferences whose programs I have seen but to which I either was not invited or had the good sense to decline -- is an indicator, hardly anyone even wants to think about the real issues -- like how to maintain the necessary institutions of world order, from international policing to more or less free trade, when economic power is no longer restricted to a handful of wealthy nations.
Though crime rates differ widely between (and within) nations, the reported homicide rates for Colombia, El Salvador, Venezuela, and Brazil are among the world’s highest.
It is difficult to compare victimization rates between nations because police records are often poor – generated by corrupt politicians or police administrations to support their political view of how crime should be handled.
GENEVA – Is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations resilient enough to thrive amid the regional and global transformations taking place today?
After the Iron Curtain fell Europe faced an event unique in its long history: a chance to create a truly just order, one mirroring the will of all nations, communities, and individuals, one founded not on violence, but on equality.
Such a system could solve many current problems, such as the question of the representation of nations on the Commission.
It may seem surprising, but I am convinced that what I have recommended here opens more space for executing the will of individual nations and an enhanced assertion of their identity.
In the last few years, France has distinguished itself from other European nations by gradually abandoning community-based policing, which the government considers too “social” and prevention-oriented.
Since communism's fall, the nations of Central and Eastern Europe have undergone exhilarating yet wrenching transitions.
To be sure, good surveillance is needed in order to obtain early warning that a strain of H5N1 flu transmissible between humans has been detected, so that nations around the world can rapidly initiate a variety of public health measures, including a program to produce large amounts of vaccine against that strain.
But if Obama shows that he takes the issue seriously and intends to pursue a policy of containment, these nations would probably respond favorably.
From this standpoint, this year’s World Cup has not only witnessed the triumph of European nations – all semi-finalists were European for the first time since 1982 – but also the absence of even a glimmer of European emotions.
It would also ensure that richer nations pay more, taking much of the political heat out of the debate.
We cannot browbeat China and other developing nations into embracing hugely expensive, ineffective global carbon cuts.
Most nations would suffer, but nations caught in the middle would suffer the most.
Switzerland repatriated $684 million of former President Ferdinand Marcos’ money to the Philippines and $700million of General Sani Abacha’s funds to Nigeria, and, with other nations, returned to Peru more than $180 million stolen by former government official Vladimiro Montesinos.
Of course, corruption is not unique to the region; but six of the ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ranked in the bottom half of Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions index.
These intrinsically very similar Slavic nations show that the effects of a delay in reforms are dramatic, and they are bound to last for over a decade.
In this respect, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) constitutes an edifying example.
The US is indeed a rich country, but Lord Acton’s famous aphorism applies to nations as well as to individuals: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
This dangerous idea comes to us courtesy of Indonesia’s minister of health, Siti Fadilah Supari, who asserts that deadly viruses are the sovereign property of individual nations – even though they cross borders and could pose a pandemic threat to all the world’s peoples.
As the world learned with the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) – which first appeared in China in 2002 but was not reported by Chinese officials until it spread to four other nations – globally shared health risks demand absolute global transparency.
In a world where, for many Israelis and non-Israeli Jews, Israel is becoming to the community of nations what Jews once were in the community of peoples – a pariah state, if not an eternal scapegoat – the memory of the Shoah resounds with a vengeance.
Speeches, particularly when delivered by leaders of great nations, can be useful, irrelevant, or dangerous.
Yet those deadlines had come and gone when, in September 2000, during the 55th UN General Assembly, leaders of 189 nations adopted the MDGs.
Some nations do not feel threatened by imaginary insults to national dignity – for various historical reasons, they believe themselves to be superior to others.
Shaping the Post-Carbon EconomyNEW YORK – At the end of this year, representatives of the 170 nations that are signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will meet in Copenhagen for what they hope will be final negotiations on a new international response to global warming and climate change.
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