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It was in this way that it radically transformed economies and societies for the better.
Of course, many social problems run in families; our societies are not egalitarian; people living in poverty tend to rear children who live in poverty.
The thinking is that young men and women will be less likely to become terrorists if they are members of societies that provide them with political and economic opportunities to live meaningful and satisfying lives.
Existing terrorists need to be stopped before they act; failing that, societies need to protect themselves and have ready the means of reducing the consequences of successful attacks.
But it does hold out the promise of reducing it to a scale that will not threaten the openness, security, or prosperity of modern societies.
More important, electoral politics aside, they would be helping to craft better societies whose politics are shaped by reasonable debate among citizens, not distorted by the community-destroying behavior of smugglers and extremists.
They are ill equipped to deal with the problem, so their societies have the drug problem they deserve.
For all the successes of recent decades, the fact remains that 20% of the world's population still lives on less than $1 a day, while HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases are ravaging many societies.
How will individuals who cannot share a shelter with gays and Christians without harassing them be able to integrate into liberal European societies?
In fact, both have failed to take seriously the cultural differences – on issues like women’s rights, minority rights, family honor, and individual liberties – between asylum-seekers, mainly from the Middle East and North Africa, and the European societies where they hope to live.
Perhaps the most obvious example of the threat European societies faces occurred in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve, when more than 600 women were sexually assaulted – and in some cases also robbed – by large gangs of men, most of whom were illegal immigrants or asylum-seekers.
Whether or not such initiatives ultimately have an impact, there is no denying that in Germany and Sweden – two of the world’s most open, tolerant, and equitable societies – women and girls now face a new reality.
For example, one of its articles states that, “In the age of the new industrial revolution […] the deepening of cooperation amongst States and societies is necessary now more than ever, in particular with respect to social activities, technologies, and culture.”
What does not help – and in fact backfires – is for outsiders to view the political crisis of Middle Eastern societies as the result of an Islamist-secularist divide.
None of the many issues identified, both within and among states and societies, can be addressed effectively without thorough and continuing consultation across the spectrum of stakeholders.
This extra-national effort on behalf of the World Cup’s sponsors underscores the threat to newly empowered civil societies from global corporate entities, many of which are increasingly chafing at the constraints imposed on them by strong democracies.
In the final weeks of Communist rule, Mazowiecki helped to establish a model for negotiated political transition that still informs, inspires, and guides other societies on the cusp of change.
Polish society (like many societies, in this part of the world, but also in the West) accepts and enjoys liberal freedoms without being really interested in democracy, at least in the true meaning of that word.
When politics appears as nothing more than a nuisance or a bore, a kind of social nihilism becomes acceptable, even comfortable, to practically everyone in so-called democratic and liberal societies.
Psychopaths can emerge anywhere – even in the most civilized societies.
Open societies, especially if they want to compete with non-democratic countries, must be more muscular: openness requires strength.
Belief in vampires in Eastern European societies served its own historical purposes: uniting communities and identifying outsiders, giving concrete form to death fears, explaining mysterious events, and, last but not least, providing a means of resistance to the encroachment of Western ideas and patterns of thought.
Even in the most advanced and affluent societies, a vast concentrated effort is needed to preserve even minimal decency: think of locks, security alarms, police, courts, and prisons.
This enables the construction of cultural bridges between host societies and home countries.
Hyper-globalization in trade and finance, intended to create seamlessly integrated world markets, tore domestic societies apart.
Punishment is ultimately an instrument – not the only one, nor the most important – for restoring a collective moral conscience to societies ravaged by dictatorship.
Old societies have customs and traditions; new ones have courts and legislatures.
Muslim women in strict authoritarian societies do not usually have the option of seeking the law’s protection.
For example, the refugee problem cannot be separated from wider problems concerning the integration of all inhabitants of Palestine, Jordan, and Israel – where the refugees are most numerous – into civil societies where they may enjoy equal legal status and equal access to economic and cultural opportunities.
They tear societies apart, destroy the livelihoods of millions, and cause even greater conflicts, as we have seen in Iraq.
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