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The liberal faith in reason is an 18th century illusion: reason is inherently fallible and must be supported, or even supplanted, by norms flowing from tradition, religion, family, etc.
On one hand, the world sees a young, educated leader pledging to modernize Russia, particularly in terms of bringing its law enforcement and judicial practices into line with international norms.
Women still bear disproportionate domestic burdens, and pressures stemming from social and cultural norms often rob them of the chance to attend school, start businesses, or participate in public life.
But the new generation of Chinese leaders is not just well-educated, but also well aware of international norms and standards.
In The Lonely Crowd, the American sociologist David Riesman identified three broad cultural types: tradition-directed cultures that look to inherited rituals, morals, and values for guidance; inner-directed cultures, in which people behave according to self-nourished values; and other-directed cultures that react predominantly to external norms and peer influences.
Without impersonal, general norms and their enforcement by independent judicial authorities, according to this view, little development, if any, is possible, because the risks facing both labor and capital – including corruption, arbitrariness, and rigid traditions – will be too high.
Even then, successfully changing institutions is easier said than done, as they are rooted in deeply enshrined norms and values.
The authorities’ heavy-handed retaliation for a legitimate inquiry became an international scandal, eroding confidence in the commitment of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to democratic norms.
But China apparently is far less proficient in replicating the DNA of a modern consumer culture – specifically, in altering the behavioral norms of its people.
But the biggest breakthrough in reshaping societal norms was in family-planning policy – replacing the one-child limit that had been in force since 1980 with a two-child limit beginning in 2017.
That will require resolving the disconnect between the structural shift to services and the behavioral norms that will ultimately shape the spending habits of its people.
Such an agreement could include trade in goods, services, financial instruments, and agriculture, and would necessitate greater compatibility of European and American regulations and legal norms, implying substantial savings.
A growth order, by contrast, implies an emphasis on the configuration of sociopolitical and economic institutions – including norms, procedures, laws, and enforcement mechanisms – to achieve social objectives, such as improved living standards, a healthier natural environment, and a harmonious and innovative society.
Reform, after all, implies that traditional norms and institutions may have already been discredited, but that alternative structures have yet to be firmly established.
Similar norms exist in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, and Lithuania.
This sanction can be achieved from the top down - ie, by government or other decrees reinterpreting Islamic tenets - as well as from the bottom up, through communal norms and social pressure.
By retreating from liberal norms, the May government has become, like the Trump administration, an enabler of authoritarian behaviors around the world.The collapse of British foreign policy has come at a time of deepening uncertainty.
By retreating from liberal norms, the May government has become, like the Trump administration, an enabler of authoritarian behaviors around the world.
Recently, the US National Intelligence Council published four widely different scenarios for the world in 2020: Davos World, in which economic globalization continues, but with a more Asian face;Pax Americana, where the US continues to dominate the global order;New Caliphate, where Islamic religious identity challenges the dominance of western norms; and Cycle of Fear, in which non-state forces create shocks to security that produce Orwellian societies.
Europe can contribute significantly to China’s integration into global norms and institutions.
A third rationale for the Bank has been its ability to share expertise and to develop and reinforce norms among the governments to which it lends.
All the EU's other documents would, of course, still remain valid as regular law or norms, but these, of course, need not become required reading for European children as the constitution should be.
And yet recent deliberate attacks on refugee camps and hospitals, in Syria and elsewhere, demonstrate an absolute disdain for basic humanitarian norms.
The meetings and talks taking place in Istanbul on May 23-24 will address the five core items comprising the Agenda for Humanity: preventing and ending conflicts; defending humanitarian norms; reducing displacement, protecting women and girls, and providing education in conflict zones; reinforcing national and local capacities to provide aid; and increasing investment in human development.
But while the responsibility for upholding humanitarian norms does not concern only governments, they are essential in enforcing them.
In order to prevent humanitarian disasters resulting from war, the first priority is to respect the norms aimed at safeguarding civilians.
What is at stake are both the lives of thousands of civilians and the enduring effectiveness of the multilateral system, by which these norms have been agreed and mechanisms to enforce them established.
This summit must, at a minimum, serve as a powerful call to states to uphold the established norms, but also to impel others to do so.
We embraced these norms to avoid barbarism; if we want them to be respected, we need unflinching commitments from the great powers, such as a pledge not to support or remain in coalitions with those who hold humanitarian norms in contempt.
One of the measures, proposed in the summit’s preparatory report and aimed at effective enforcement of the norms, is the creation of a specialized monitoring body.
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