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In "tribal" societies, this is not easy to bring about.
Recently, the US National Intelligence Council published four widely different scenarios for the world in 2020: Davos World, in which economic globalization continues, but with a more Asian face;Pax Americana, where the US continues to dominate the global order;New Caliphate, where Islamic religious identity challenges the dominance of western norms; and Cycle of Fear, in which non-state forces create shocks to security that produce Orwellian societies.
But the bigger, more productive arguments are about how to shape education, labor markets, scientific research, and social-welfare policies in order to help societies adapt to the world around them.
After all, broken societies are havens for illegality, whether drug trafficking or training of terrorists.
The strategy could also safeguard post-conflict societies after an initial period (of about five years) when the presence of troops is necessary.
Crisis prevention is much to be preferred to intervention; the best way to prevent crises is to foster the development of open societies.
Open societies allow people with different views, backgrounds, and interests to live together in peace.
Such control is detrimental to the evolution of open societies.
I propose that the world's open societies form an alliance with a dual purpose: fostering both development of open societies in individual countries and the evolution of a global open society.
Overcoming Latin America’s Crime CrisisViolent crime undermines societies in much the same way that it blights individual victims.
The exponential development of technologies such as artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, precision medicine, and autonomous vehicles is transforming economies, businesses, and societies.
The region’s people are sliding into enemy camps, deepening their societies’ wounds in the process.
Some ideas are worse than wrong: they are castrating, because they interpret the world in a way that emphasizes secondary issues – say, the availability of raw materials – and blinds societies to the more promising opportunities that may lie elsewhere.
In principle, efficient taxation of extractive industries should enable societies to maximize the benefits of nature’s bounty.
Some people may think that is a good thing; but, if our societies are to continue functioning in cloudy, windless weather, that means relying on some fossil fuels.
Building more wind and solar generating capacity with subsidies means societies end up paying three times for power – once for the power, once for subsidies to inefficient renewables, and once more to subsidize our now-inefficient fossil fuels.
That is a source of hope, if not yet of the systematic and coherent ideas about how to remake their societies that the region needs.
Global economic growth and rising populations are putting unprecedented stresses on the physical environment, and these stresses in turn are causing unprecedented challenges for our societies.
Driven to the margins of most societies by collective memories of Nazi and fascist horrors, such men (there were hardly any women) had the grubby air of middle-aged patrons of backstreet porno cinemas.
But in more complex cases, in which living beings collaborate to build societies or create knowledge, our scientific models are inadequate.
Some would dismiss such concerns as a jeremiad; after all, human societies have survived for millennia, despite storms, earthquakes, and pestilence.
The subject was “Globalization and Ethics” – specifically, a comparison of the ways that Europe, the United States and Asia protect the most fragile members of their respective societies.
And can Asian societies really revive an effective sense of family responsibility?
Open societies demand reliable institutions, and these cannot be created overnight.
They must unite societies divided by powerful global forces, such as globalization and rapid technological innovation.
It is this imperative that underlies the importance of the coming decision, for it provides an occasion for the Court to reassert the fundamental principle of non-discrimination that defines our democratic societies.
The age profiles of our societies are changing dramatically.
We have been accustomed to societies with a demographic structure that resembles a pyramid – a broad youth base tapering to an elderly tip.
How will older societies manage new technology and remain dynamic?
Open societies, religious tolerance, and freedom of movement have been rare blessings.
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