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There is a person who might compel Yanukovych to retreat to democratic norms and thus hold off such protests -- Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.
Myriad human interactions produce institutions, norms, organizations, and practices that perpetuate a sexual hierarchy of wellbeing.
Specifically, they must devise a grand bargain for peace that addresses the fundamental questions relating to global security norms and arms control that have so far impeded such cooperation.
Naturally, everything can change in the future, including Russia's constitutional norms.
The GGE’s reports in 2010, 2013, and 2015 helped to set the negotiating agenda for cybersecurity, and the most recent identified a set of norms that have been endorsed by the UN General Assembly.
This approach to norms has been adopted by the GGE.
The potency of such efforts tends to be shaped by cultural norms, the institutional bargaining power of labor, the level of trust between labor and business, and the influence of individual and corporate wealth on politics.
Incentives that reinforce practices that preserve biodiversity must be applied at all levels if they are to influence individual actions and social norms.
For purposes of both legality and legitimacy, it is vital to ensure that an unwise and ineffective intervention does not undermine the overall balance of legal rights and obligations in the UN Charter and related human rights and humanitarian norms.
For starters, parties on all sides of the fight have disregarded international human-rights law and violated basic humanitarian norms.
We must condemn any move by Trump to shirk the rule of law and the norms of a free society.
Theirs is a model that constrains national sovereignty by binding states to shared norms, conventions, and treaties.
Free trade became gospel, mass migration was welcomed, and countries embraced new global norms, like the First Geneva Convention, concluded in 1864 to cover the treatment of the sick and wounded on the battlefield.
We need their help to implement norms, principles, rules, and decision-making procedures, thereby mitigating the endemic free-rider problems in quasi-anarchical international society.
After all, they are – by design – irreversible decisions that tie the hands of future governments, which makes them tantamount to constitutional norms.
The informal limits to free speech are subject to norms of social respectability.
Until Trump came along, US presidents were held to stricter norms of behavior and speech than ordinary people.
Since norms in any given society are constantly being renegotiated, we need comedians, novelists, and artists to test the limits.
The fatal human instincts of greed and hubris can be tamed only with some elementary ethical norms.
In fact, with Trump seeking to use bilateral deals to secure reductions in America’s trade deficit, the possibility that the US will leave the WTO altogether – a nightmare scenario for the EU, which advocates shared norms over force – cannot be excluded.
Two EU members in particular, Hungary and Poland, are now jeopardizing hard-won European democratic norms – and thus undermining the very purpose of European integration.
The responsibility of the rest of the world is to build a stable backdrop for such efforts: an inclusive international system in which countries abide by the same rules and norms.
Services account for just 43% of Chinese GDP – well below global norms.
Liberal states should not proselytize and should respect--or at least tolerate--the fact that other peoples live according to norms with which we disagree.
If Asian states are to play this role, they must do far more to address their own regional challenges and to promote a positive, universal set of norms.
But perhaps the most far-reaching yet neglected global health risk stems from gender norms.
While there may be a biological component to men’s propensity for risk taking (especially among young men), gender norms reinforce risky or unhealthy behaviors by associating them with masculinity.
Understanding and exploiting gender norms offers commercial benefits.
Given that social norms in much of the world discourage women from smoking, drinking alcohol, and, in extreme cases, driving cars and motorcycles, advertisers in these industries tend to target men.
Although gender norms are clearly undermining men’s health worldwide, key international organizations continue to disregard the problem or address only those issues that are specific to girls and women when devising strategies to improve global health.
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