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In an effort to stem recurrent debt crises, traditional societies embraced the “Law of Jubilee,” a ceremonial wiping clean of the slate.
Too often, societies ignore child sexual abuse, owing to family pride or fear of stigma.
Each positive initiative, whether it comes from governments or civil societies, should be supported.
That is why the current French debate on the headscarf is so important, for it concerns the rights of Muslim women in European societies and the protection of diversity.
But what of the unemployed who become locked into their societies?
This is not an easy task when societies are deeply divided by ethnicity, religion, or social status.
But what has transformed Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya over the last two years has not been efforts by the outside world to improve these societies or their economies, but grassroots social movements intent on changing their countries’ political systems.
Against this background, the notion that force alone can transform conflict-riven societies in the Middle East and elsewhere is a dangerous fallacy.
Moreover, in terms of economic participation and opportunity, women continue to lag behind men by a considerable 15-25% even in the most gender-equal societies.
It should become a principle of international relations that democracy and democratization must be supported in all situations; that democratic societies should forego any opportunistic benefits that may come from supporting the enemies of democracy.
As this approach facilitates the rise of global super-firms, it creates serious problems for labor markets and societies, because it destroys mid-level jobs based on old skills faster than comparable jobs based on new skills can be created.
What we really need is fundamentally to transform the way our societies function – and fast.
Affording women and girls the opportunity to succeed is not just the right thing to do; it can also transform societies and economies for the good of all.
But some amount of paternalism is necessary in civilized societies.
It exists, in part, because individuals know that civilized societies will never stand by and watch the elderly starve.
In liberal, market driven societies, however, eugenics will not be coercively imposed by the state for the collective good.
Rwanda has reduced both economic and health-care inequality, and demonstrates how “health equity” helps to build strong societies.
Though regarded by many as one of the safest and least corrupt societies in the world, Rwanda faces a great shortage of doctors and nurses.
But the centuries-old culture of leadership that is ingrained in many African societies has played an equally disastrous role.
The aberrant period in history is the hundred or so years after the US Civil War, during which breakthroughs in energy, electrification, telecommunications, and transportation fundamentally reshaped societies.
European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans declared that the Catalan regional authorities had “chosen to ignore the law,” and that if one of the three pillars of European societies – “democracy, respect for the rule of law, and human rights” – is removed, “the others will fall.
Because most Asian countries are host to relatively homogenous societies with strong national identities, the chance of civil conflicts erupting and spilling over national borders is relatively low.
Indeed, the only people to introduce religion into the protests have been rulers, such as those in Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, and Syria, who have tried to use fear of the Shia or Sunni “other” to continue to divide and misrule their societies.
Property, construction, and land are the common currencies of power in mafia societies – in China and Russia no less than in Sicily.
And yet, for now, the societies depicted so acidly in Leviathan and A Touch of Sin continue to look good in the eyes of many people who are disillusioned with Europe’s economic stagnation and America’s political dysfunction.
As individuals and societies become richer, they come into closer contact with one another – virtually, through communication technologies, and physically, through population growth, urbanization, and travel.
Furthermore, increased openness and market integration, driven by rapid technological change, is exacerbating divisions within and among societies.
Of course, European societies should not tolerate criminality and anti-social behavior.
This is a matter of human rights and basic values, and it is vital to peace and cohesion in societies across Europe.
We did so despite numerous studies that show that recovery rates from “mental illness” in “underdeveloped” countries are far superior to those in “advanced” societies.
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