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The Congress of Vienna reinstated the
principle
of the balance of power, based on the belief that all parties shared a common interest transcending their respective ambitions, and re-established the Concert of Nations, which for two generations stopped territorial and ideological revisionism of the type seen from 1789 to 1815.
Only when the Russian state decided in 2014 to elevate kleptocracy to a
principle
of foreign policy did Putin’s system of government become an international concern.
They have faith in the deterrent of “mutually assured destruction” (MAD) – the
principle
that, if an attack by one country means the decimation of both, neither will make the first move.
In such a scenario, containing China would become the organizing
principle
of US foreign policy, and both sides would view economic interdependence as an unacceptable strategic liability.
Rethinking SovereigntyFor 350 years, sovereignty – the notion that states are the central actors on the world stage and that governments are essentially free to do what they want within their own territory but not within the territory of other states – has provided the organizing
principle
of international relations.
In principle, the IMF could be allowed to print money (it already has its own accounting unit, the so-called Special Drawing Rights).
This
principle
has been applied to aid to the financial sector; it is no less appropriate for investment.
For me, as UN Secretary-General, collective social and economic security is a basic
principle
of justice – global social justice.
Moreover, European governments have belatedly understood the most basic
principle
of public finance.
The heads of member states’ governments agreed in
principle
to limit future fiscal deficits by seeking constitutional changes in their countries that would ensure balanced budgets.
The basic
principle
of non-discrimination is at risk: once trading countries negotiate separately with each other, various forms of discrimination become inevitable, giving rise to various kinds of conflicts.
I firmly believe that this is how NATO sees itself -- as an alliance of solidarity of those who share common values, the
principle
of solidarity and openness being rooted in the very nature of these values.
Openness and the
principle
of solidarity belong to the very substance of NATO and, as such, they are rooted also in the text of the Washington Treaty that opened the door to NATO expansion.
I believe it would be contrary to the spirit of this alliance, and to the
principle
of its openness if, content with our own invitation, we forgot about those who have not been invited.
Actually, this would imply a return to the IMF’s founding principle: it is in the best interest of all members to allow countries to pursue their own full-employment macroeconomic policies, even if this requires regulating capital flows.
Unlike formal rules, such as laws, these informal strictures do not need to be enforced because in principle, in every democracy (including illiberal ones), politicians only do what people allow them to do.
Regardless of how one categorizes Trump’s domestic agenda, it is clearly a response to a world in which a
principle
of openness – to foreign goods, capital, and people – coexists with a complex system for regulating these flows.
First, they reshape Europe's military forces according to the
principle
of "defense dominance," making them more suitable for defense and far less so for attack.
When policy is required but the science is unclear, regulatory decisions are increasingly based on the “precautionary principle,” which is designed to prevent situations in which serious harm could occur.
However, there is no universally accepted interpretation of the precautionary
principle.
Rather, the precautionary
principle
should be used judiciously and rationally, balancing potential risks with the benefits that innovation and new technology might offer.
Given this regulatory environment, chief executives of 12 companies (including BASF), with a combined annual research-and-development budget of €21 billion ($28 billion), recently proposed the formal adoption of an “innovation principle” in European risk management and regulatory practice.
The innovation
principle
does not set out to support innovation regardless of its impact on health or the environment.
But the
principle
does seek to support an evidence-based approach, relying on sound science.
And yet, while US President Barack Obama has referred to the quartet’s decision as his guiding
principle
for diplomatic action on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the situation remains as dire as ever, because the devil remains in the details.
Hence the
principle
of “democratic delegation”: Democracies can enhance their performance by delegating aspects of decision-making to independent agencies.
The continent also seems poised to gut the important “one-stop shop” principle, which would have allowed companies to deal with the data protection authority in the country where they have their main European base.
To make us choose what is good for us, they avoid fines, compulsion, and prohibition in favor of “nudges” – institutional arrangements that we could, in principle, easily override, but that, given our tendency to rely on System I, we end up going along with.
But the Vietnamese or Chinese roads are unacceptable in Latin America, which has made huge progress in transforming advances in democracy and respect for human rights into a regional legal order that goes beyond national sovereignty or the sacrosanct
principle
of non-intervention.
In principle, workers can seek remedies by joining a union and bargaining collectively.
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