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In fact, we live in a 21st-century world of interdependence, and brutal interdependent problems, and when we look for solutions in politics and in democracy, we are faced with political institutions designed 400 years ago, autonomous, sovereign nation-states with jurisdictions and territories separate from one another, each claiming to be able to solve the problem of its own people.
Twenty-first-century, transnational world of problems and challenges, 17th-century world of political institutions.
And like many others, I've been thinking about what can one do about this, this asymmetry between 21st-century challenges and archaic and increasingly dysfunctional political institutions like nation-states.
Because I think you will find, when we talk about cities, we are talking about the political institutions in which civilization and culture were born.
Aristotle said in the ancient world, man is a political animal.
So to come back to the dilemma, if the dilemma is we have old-fashioned political nation-states unable to govern the world, respond to the global challenges that we face like climate change, then maybe it's time for mayors to rule the world, for mayors and the citizens and the peoples they represent to engage in global governance.
Well, to understand that, we need to understand why cities are special, why mayors are so different than prime ministers and presidents, because my premise is that a mayor and a prime minister are at the opposite ends of a political spectrum.
But going to Mars would follow a political decision with popular appeal, and that will never happen.
Sometimes, we can't solve big problems because our political systems fail.
But there's no hope in the present political climate that we will see U.S. energy policy or international treaties that reflect that consensus.
But 30 years of research have taught us that famines are political crises that catastrophically affect food distribution.
We can, we must, but these four elements must all be present: Political leaders and the public must care to solve a problem; institutions must support its solution; It must really be a technological problem; and we must understand it.
This is a picture of Times Square in the '50s, and despite all of the technological innovation, cultural changes, political changes, this is Times Square in 2008.
Thus, there's understandably a deep-seated presumption among Westerners that the whole world will decide to adopt private capitalism as the model of economic growth, liberal democracy, and will continue to prioritize political rights over economic rights.
However, to many who live in the emerging markets, this is an illusion, and even though the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was signed in 1948, was unanimously adopted, what it did was to mask a schism that has emerged between developed and developing countries, and the ideological beliefs between political and economic rights.
Today, many people who live in the emerging markets, where 90 percent of the world's population lives, believe that the Western obsession with political rights is beside the point, and what is actually important is delivering on food, shelter, education and healthcare.
And they have also decided to prioritize economic rights over political rights.
Second, China has been able to meaningfully improve its income inequality without changing the political construct.
They have vastly different political systems and different economic systems, one with private capitalism, another one broadly with state capitalism.
But it also says that as China moves toward being the largest economy in the world, something that is expected to happen by experts in 2016, that this schism between the political and economic ideologies of the West and the rest is likely to widen.
Well, the world could look like more state involvement and state capitalism; greater protectionisms of nation-states; but also, as I just pointed out a moment ago, ever-declining political rights and individual rights.
The other option is for the West to cooperate, and by cooperating I mean giving the emerging market countries the flexibility to figure out in an organic way what political and economic system works best for them.
A friend of mine, Eleanor Saitta, always says that any technological problems of sufficient scale and scope are political problems first of all.
We believe that this initiative requires great political will, and we'll have to align the financial sector, as well as the ICT sector, and really even the underlying legal framework.
Well, my biggest takeaway is that for decades, we've been focused on political correctness, but what matters more is emotional correctness.
And what I've realized is that political persuasion doesn't begin with ideas or facts or data.
Political persuasion begins with being emotionally correct.
And one of my all-time favorites begins: "I am not a big fan of your political leanings or your sometimes tortured logic, (Laughter) but I'm a big fan of you as a person."
Indeed, a very important ideological and political issue anywhere is how to distribute that most valuable resource of a city, which is road space.
In Egypt and many of its neighbors, this closing down is part of a wider closing in political, social and cultural thought.
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