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It is time to exchange the gender norms that are undermining men’s health for a social, cultural, and commercial emphasis on healthier lifestyles for everyone.

Gender norms are not static.

Greece has not departed from past fiscal norms; it has returned to them.

Since its invasion of Crimea a year ago, Russia has continuously and gravely violated the United Nations Charter, numerous international treaties, and international humanitarian norms.

It is not an international organization, and it has no legal authority to speak for the world or to establish rules, norms, or standards for any state except its own members – that China is not a member demonstrates clearly the limits of its reach.

Instead, norms of proper political behavior must become embodied in the polity’s enduring institutions – its political parties, parliaments, and courts – in order to prevent abuse of power.

What sustains these norms is the knowledge that undermining them will have consequences that are damaging to all.

Economic equality also challenges accepted beliefs, and dispels harmful myths that perpetuate narrow definitions of gender norms.

For example, people living with and affected by HIV organized vibrant social movements that issued demands for change at national and global levels, dismantled legal and social barriers that exacerbated risk, and articulated norms and standards in human-rights terms.

A huge benefit for the accession countries in preparing themselves to join the EU was that they were forced to conform to European business, political, and legal norms.

The proposed "united economic space" will also have its own norms - the ways of the oligarch, the corrupt bureaucrat, the crony capitalist, and the politically motivated prosecutor.

The report – the product of several months of debate within the German foreign-policy and security community – identifies Germany’s current values and interests as a commitment to “human dignity, freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and to an international order that is based on universal norms.”

At the same time, the prince has cannily used deeply rooted cultural and religions norms to pressure Al-Qaeda’s recruits to give up violence.

What I have in mind is the creation of global norms and procedural requirements designed to enhance the quality of domestic policymaking.

This training enabled them to compare the debased state of affairs of their time with the norms and aspirations of earlier generations of clerics and thinkers.

The paradox here is that the open-minded reformism they espoused helped stir conservative trends among Islamic thinkers, who seized on the reformists' revival of Islamic norms to urge a return to the "purity" of the first Islamic societies.

Both conservative traditionalists and radical fundamentalists were drawn to political activism and came to regard the modern state as a means to liberate Muslims from foreign domination and to re-Islamicize society through a revival of Islam's original norms.

Securing a Sustainable FutureLONDON – When Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote that “All that is solid melts into air,” they intended it as a metaphor for the disruptive transformations that the Industrial Revolution implied for established social norms.

With Trump obsessing over secondary issues such as tariffs and deficits, it will be all but impossible for the US and Europe to establish new global trade norms.

The hope was that policy settings soon would return to pre-crisis norms.

“Today, many nations,” he warned, “are revising their moral values and ethical norms, eroding ethnic traditions and differences between peoples and cultures.”

So, if gender training programs were to piggyback on current income-boosting microfinance and agricultural-support programs, we could undermine norms about gender roles that entrench women’s dependence on men or condone domestic violence.

In fact, while the Saakashvili government’s clampdown showed the structural weaknesses of Georgia’s democracy, the aftermath has also shown that Georgia’s Western ambition remains intact, because the government understands that it cannot afford any long-term deviation from democratic norms.

In any viable long term arrangement, the level of benefits relative to wages should be reduced, retirement ages should be raised to international norms, and eligibility for special pensions (disability ones in particular) should be tightened to cover only the truly in need.

Relying exclusively on UNASUR for election observations is deeply problematic, even if one overlooks some of its heterodox norms and practices, such as the absence of an explicit ban on receiving funding or deploying observers from host countries.

At the diplomatic level, this implies that national interests, not universal norms, should drive cooperation.

The radicals soon discover that changing norms is not enough to change reality, while the democrats find that heightened social mobilization makes dialogue impossible.

Since its focus is the “law of laws,” the Assembly implicitly questions the status of all public norms and bodies, thus eroding the political system.

It is clearly helpful for immigrants to get hints about how to navigate daily life practically – such as norms about standing in line.

They will also come to get the point of more informal social norms – against homophobia, for instance.

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