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We must move beyond tolerance and respect to genuine care and compassion, with empowerment and inclusiveness becoming guiding principles of our actions.
These measures, too, are supposedly doomed because they all involve increasing governments’ liabilities, and financial markets are at a tipping point with respect to sovereign debt.
With respect to monetary policy, the United States’ unemployment rate, at around 5%, is close to what most economists consider full employment, and the Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise its target interest rate again in December.
But to be a genuine locus of international legitimacy, the UN must become a different organization--one secure in its own legitimacy and able to function without the endless delays, vetoes, indecisiveness, and unwillingness to ensure respect for its decisions.
What is needed is a "World Organization of Democracies," devoted to promoting the original values of the UN, including democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human rights.
The latter is worth emulating because admission and continued membership are conditioned on respect for specific democratic standards.
The same should hold with respect to the new UN: to join and remain a UN member would require respecting the international commitments undertaken by each state, beginning with the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Like the European Union, the UN should possess mechanisms to suspend or even expel members that fail to respect democratic norms.
Unless its members respect the rules by which it is defined, it will wither.
Will this be the case for the United States with respect to Syria – the most intractable and dangerous issue in today’s Middle East?
The most important example is constitutional courts – a different animal from the US Supreme Court, and one specifically tasked with ensuring respect for individual rights.
The real problem is to make officials respect legality.
Fortunately there are others, in particular Tony Blair's Britain, which can carry the message that another great Englishman who still enjoys immense respect in America, Winston Churchill, summed up in these words: "Jaw-jaw is better than war-war."
This does not imply that a government must rule by fear, as past Russian governments did: in this respect, Putin's government is as good as any Russia has ever had.
But so, too, are the threats, including to the democratic process itself, when politicians violate rather than respect the rules that govern their intelligence services’ integrity.
It is the knowledge, understanding, and mutual respect that remain, and that are the cornerstones on which Europe’s policy for Africa must be built.
The Mission Innovation initiative, announced in Paris, which commits 20 major countries to doubling clean-energy R&D, is a vital step forward in this respect.
With respect to the war in Syria, Trump might simply hand that devastated country over to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran.
And if Trump defers to Putin in the Middle East, one wonders what he will do with respect to Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus.
There were times when German capitalism was shown greater respect.
What, then, does this imply with respect to North Korea?
Principles, morality, and simple respect for the truth guide agreement as much as interests do.
As long as communication is conducted truthfully and with respect to values, norms, and objective facts, negotiations will be able to achieve consensus and agreement.
With respect to the last of these issues, the EU urgently needs to create a true energy union to reduce its dependence on outside, increasingly hostile countries, not least Russia.
Yet, as long as such leaders respect the democratic constitution, they are not likely to get very far; the next election will dislodge them.
In any case, though portrayed as a powerful leader, Putin cannot be said to be following Russia’s ultimate strongman, Stalin, in any meaningful respect.
Of 50 European countries, only Belarus, notorious for its lack of respect for basic human rights, still executes criminals in peacetime.
Moreover, all motorists must respect the rules of the road, and anyone who breaches them must be held to account, and possibly penalized, because even one rogue driver will most likely cause a major pile-up if not stopped.
Notwithstanding the opinion polls, it does seem as though the public not only accepts his conviction, but that they respect it as the outcome of a fair system that has been allowed to work.
We will be left with a leadership vacuum, and nowhere is this more dangerous than with respect to nuclear proliferation.
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