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The dualistic nature of developing societies has become more accentuated as a result of globalization.
The goal is to transmit not only the basics, but also the skills and values to make our societies more equitable, resilient, and inclusive.
Saudi Arabia, long one of the Arab world’s most rigid societies, now finds itself in a state of flux.
They view China as special, a re-emerging great power bound to join the ranks of the world’s most advanced countries, and the governance practices that their newspapers cite as models are invariably those of rich societies, not developing ones.
This purpose may seem increasingly controversial in pluralistic Western societies, but universities should at least provide their students with an understanding of the models, history, and philosophical fundamentals with which to debate these issues.
It also requires tolerance of minorities and respect for individual rights, as well as the development of effective institutions for resolving political conflicts in divided societies.
Moreover, Germany and Japan were relatively homogeneous societies with some prior experience of democracy.
The development of civil societies, economic growth, and openness to the world are equally important.
When tolerated by their Muslim rulers, Assyrian Christians contributed much to the societies in which they lived.
Yet many differences still separate societies within the EU.
The problem, of course, is that affecting the trajectories of other societies is typically a difficult, long-term proposition; in the meantime, there are pressing global challenges that need to be addressed, sometimes with the assistance of unsavory regimes.
Turmoil in Arab societies is bound to persist for years to come, and emerging regional and world powers can be expected to exploit the international order’s fragmentation to advance their interests in the region.
Only with a holistic approach – which integrates protections against child marriage, equitable educational opportunities, adolescent health, and poverty reduction – can we ensure that girls and women worldwide have the opportunity to fulfill their potential, and thus to contribute positively to their societies.
With effective governance and planning, open dialogue, resource-sharing frameworks, and sufficient investment, including in skills training, these communities can translate this relationship into effective environmental stewardship – and build healthier and more secure societies.
The events of this summer show how vulnerable our societies are to weather-related extremes.
This is bound to outstrip the ability of many societies and ecosystems to adapt.
In an environment of extremely low interest rates and frothy equity markets, infrastructure also looks like an attractive and reasonably safe alternative to stocks and bonds, yielding returns that can ultimately finance the pensions of the West’s aging societies.
As we have recently witnessed, terrorists can be attacked and stopped before they can cause harm; individuals and countries can be defended; and societies can take steps to bolster their resilience when they are successfully attacked, as on occasion they inevitably will be.
There is a greater chance than before that young people will become more integrated in their own societies (and less susceptible to the appeal of extremism) if they enjoy greater political and economic opportunity.
What might work for a time in a small city-state can hardly be a useful model for larger, more complex societies.
If governments are to overcome the challenges they face and maximize the benefits of this shift for their societies, they need to be a lot more open to self-disruption.
Maintaining the four freedoms at the heart of the European project – the free movement of people, goods, capital, and services within Europe – will be possible only if EU governments have credible policies to protect the most vulnerable in their societies.
It reintroduces fundamental divisions in societies whose greatest democratic achievement was precisely to banish fundamentalism from politics.
The core theory with which emerging feminists in more traditional and religious societies are working is far different from that of Western feminism – and in some ways far more profound and humane.
As societies become richer, individuals can afford to stop worrying about food and sanitation, and to start worrying about the environment.
As societies get richer, people can afford cleaner technology.
Outdoor air pollution worsens as societies first leave extreme poverty.
A study in Europe asking whether prosperity enhanced quality of life found that, “Europeans’ life-quality is better in wealthier societies.”
Folk ideas about heredity are a particularly powerful cultural tool, but they are not unique to pre-modern societies.
Over and over again, in societies all over the world, the civilized norms that protect us from anarchy and violence turn out to be perilously thin.
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