Principle
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For its part, the international community, which so often has propped up authoritarian regimes in the name of stability (or on the
principle
that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”) has a clear responsibility to provide whatever assistance Tunisia needs in the coming months and years.
Their proposal was categorically rejected in a joint submission by 16 existing or future member states, all of them small countries, who insisted that the
principle
of rotation must be retained, as a symbol of the equality of all member states.
Anyone who now claims that the 1948 Palestinian refugees have a claim, in principle, to return to Israel, must confront the question: should the millions of Germans expelled from Eastern Europe after 1945 also have the same right of return to their lost homes?
The Dark Side of Self-DeterminationCAMBRIDGE – National self-determination seems a straightforward moral principle, but it is fraught with problems.
This is an important principle, but who is the self that is to do the determining?
Africans used the
principle
of self-determination to end colonial rule.
Somalia said the
principle
of national self-determination should allow Somalis in northeastern Kenya (and in the southern Ethiopia) to secede, because they were one Somali nation.
For example, the victorious powers in World War I invoked the
principle
of self-determination, but after the dismantlement of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, the Sudetenland was incorporated into Czechoslovakia, even though its inhabitants spoke German.
Self-determination has turned out to be an ambiguous moral
principle.
Adolf Hitler used the
principle
to undermine fragile states in the 1930’s.
Today, with less than 10% of the world’s states being homogeneous, treating self-determination as a primary moral
principle
could have disastrous consequences in many regions.
For the first time in its history, Europe has a chance to establish its internal order on the
principle
of cooperation and equality of the large and the small, the strong and the weak, on shared democratic values.
This
principle
is even more important in Iraq, where the Shia majority faces the constant temptation to punish Sunnis for years of repression under Saddam Hussein.
First, international trade is based on the
principle
of comparative advantage; countries export goods in which they have a relative advantage and import goods in which they have a relative disadvantage.
Behind these slogans rests an notable principle: self-interest often causes political parties to radically depart from, even to abandon, their traditional ideologies.
So ask yourself this question: which IMF intervention in the 1990s would have been ruled out by this
principle?
In principle, one can also think of scenarios in which the dollar shoots up, but overall these seem less likely.
In principle, a strong outside lead director can be just as effective as an independent chairman – a fair point that has been made in recent weeks.
In principle, GVCs benefit these economies by easing entry into global markets.
Rumsfeld may understand this calculus in principle, but his words and actions show that he does not know how to balance the equation in practice.
Major General Wang Zaixi, Deputy Director of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, warned of the use of force if Taiwanese authorities "collude with separatist forces to openly engage in pro-independence activities and challenge the mainland and the one-China principle."
The OECD countries, despite being the source of modern history’s most devastating financial meltdown, have shown less appetite to advance sustainability as a design
principle
of their financial systems (the Bank of England’s ongoing prudential review of climate-related risks to the financial sector is a notable exception).
In response to the crimes committed during World War II, the Declaration sought to establish the
principle
that everyone is entitled to the same basic rights, irrespective of race, color, sex, language, religion, or other status.
Lukin is an exponent of the “realist” doctrine of international relations, which holds that sovereign states will always try to regulate their relations according to the
principle
of the balance of power.
On the
principle
that if something is inevitable, it is wise to welcome it, the appropriate response in London and New York is to find ways of collaborating with these new centers.
But the fundamental issues of
principle
always remained unresolved, because -- until now -- neither side was prepared to push the fight to the limit.
But Britain (and Denmark), in a groundbreaking departure from the
principle
that all members take part in all common policies, demanded -- and got -- the right to opt out of the final phase of EMU, the single currency.
Since proposing a pay-or-play scheme for the pharmaceutical industry, I have come to think that the same
principle
could be applied more broadly in business.
In my view, all companies, particularly those that are publicly listed, need to embrace the
principle
of enlightened self-interest, and recognize that a healthy society is better for their own business in the long run.
In principle, higher interest rates on lending should help to reduce over-investment.
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