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WWI began with a mindset, one based on the belief that military means could resolve pressing social and political issues in Central Europe.
A century earlier, the German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz had written that war is “a continuation of political intercourse carried on with other means.”
War in the industrial age is tragedy, disaster, and devastation; it solves no political problems.
War is a continuation not of politics, but of political failure.
As was the case a century ago, vain and ignorant leaders are pushing into battle without clear purpose or realistic prospects for resolution of the underlying political, economic, social, or ecological factors that are creating the tensions in the first place.
During the twentieth century, racial persecution, political oppression, and the ravages of two world wars became the predominant causes of flight.
In reality, the talks collapsed because nobody – not Europe, not the United States, China, India, or the other main developing countries – was willing to take the political short-term hit by offending inefficient farmers and coddled domestic industries in order to create greater long-term benefits for virtually everyone.
Appeasing SerbiaThis month has been a bad one for the cause of human rights in Europe, as Serbia was allowed to begin its six-month presidency of the Council of Europe, the Continent’s oldest political body.
But the EU must insist on Serbia’s compliance with the ICTY, the ICJ decision, and its own Copenhagen political criteria.
But it needs great doctrinal clarity, a firm political will, and a constitution.
Because none of Macri’s team had previously held national office, analysts and investors initially underestimated their political skills.
But having Macri’s chief of staff seated at the table during the announcement, alongside the economic team, raised concerns of political meddling.
Going to the IMF imposes a political cost, but it had to be done: only with sufficient firepower can Argentina convince investors that debts will be paid and the currency will not keep plunging.
But it also must understand that too abrupt a fiscal adjustment can cause a political backlash that jeopardizes the credibility of the overall package.
While annual trade between the countries has soared during this period, from $20 billion to more than $100 billion, annual US-China trade is worth six times more, and the political relationship has had ups and downs.
If it finally turns to quantitative easing in June, it will take only baby steps down this path, because ECB President Mario Draghi and his team remain reluctant to embrace the kind of radical measures that would shock their political masters.
Though women have the right to vote in almost every country, gender inequalities in political representation remain large.
There may be some losses from electing women because they tend to have less political experience than men, but the record in India suggests that if it took 20 years to establish a 30% share of women in local positions in other countries, the benefits would be at least double the costs of achieving this.
Constant intimidation by religious extremists and political factions is the intellectual’s fate in Iraq today.
This political entity is a precise counterpart in the political world to a well-known physical phenomenon of splintering or fissuring.
Of the six larger EU states, only France has a really well-defined centralized political system.
Italy and Germany were nineteenth-century amalgamations of a colorful variety of small and medium-size political units.
The United Kingdom looks older and more stable, but Scotland today is controlled by a political party that wants to repeal the 1707 Act of Union, with the future to be determined by a Scottish referendum in 2014.
In these fragmented political areas, the logic of integration in the past depended on areas that were dissatisfied with political outcomes appealing to new allies in larger units.
Indeed, Bavaria became adept at using European Community resources to bolster its own political system.
Problems of transfers in a large political unit are at the heart of federalism.
The only way to sustain such a new political order, James Madison argued in The Federalist Papers, was to ensure that federal powers were few and limited.
And, while muddling through is a characteristic response of complex political systems, it is deeply destructive.
If Europe’s political center is widely perceived to be arbitrary and overweening, its authority will be rejected and resisted.
But the dynamic might go further: the German territories had around 350 independent political entities in the mid-eighteenth century, and more than 3,000 before the middle of the seventeenth century.
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