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Indeed, many people in Eastern Europe felt a sense of lost control during the harsh socialist experiments of the post-war era, as did many Chinese during the Cultural Revolution, and these societies had minimal visible income inequality.
The backbone of tomorrow’s societies, after all, will be built not by robots or digital platforms, but by their citizens.
History abounds with mentally impaired individuals who have gained vast power as would-be saviors, only to become despots who gravely damage their societies and others.
It thrives in societies that are not bound by laws that apply equally to all, or even by any formal laws at all.
What does it mean to be Danish, German, or French in the presence of these millions of newcomers, most of whom come from non-democratic societies?
Once-open societies are veering toward dictatorship, and in many countries, despotic tendencies are strengthening.
Dictators easily export their ideas to open societies, whereas content produced under conditions of freedom rarely moves in the opposite direction.
The International Declaration on Information and Democracy is intended to strengthen open societies’ ability to combat authoritarian forces.
Now that those jobs are vanishing in post-industrial societies, too many people feel that they have nothing more to lose.
Communism was obviously an instrument of Soviet domination over conquered societies, but it was also a modus vivendi for large parts of these nations under the conditions in which they were obliged to live.
Reports of widespread sexual violence in India, South Africa, and recently Brazil have finally triggered a long-overdue, more systemic examination of how those societies may be fostering rape, not as a distant possibility in women’s lives, but as an ever-present, life-altering, daily source of terror.
The report breaks down the issue in a compelling way: by countries (producers, transit states, consumers, or all of these); by substances (marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and synthetic drugs); by links among these illicit substances; and by the consequences of consumption, production, or trade of each drug for societies, institutions, and international relations.
Nowadays, indeed, separatism is not a problem confined to individual states and societies; it is one for the entire global community.
Public Spheres for the Trump AgeBERKELEY – In many societies, universities are the main bastions of ideological and intellectual independence.
Democratic societies depend not only on the foundational principle of free speech, but on the character of political thought and conversation among various constituencies.
In democratic societies, everyone has the right to express themselves within the boundaries of the law, but no one has ever been guaranteed an audience.
As societies consider their R&D strategies, they must find ways to coax their largest corporations into a more AT&T-like bargain.
If this spending is directed toward low-carbon goods, technologies, and services, we will be on our way to creating more resilient societies.
There must be an intrinsic correlation between the lack of developmental dynamism of most Middle Eastern societies and the fact that the region is so crisis-prone.
Even worse, the wrong-headed response to the crisis threatens not just the financial sector, but open societies generally.
The real issue extends beyond the use of algorithmic decision-making in corporate and political governance, and strikes at the ethical foundations of our societies.
Migrants rejuvenate aging societies and create much-needed economic activity.
But both were relatively homogeneous societies with significant middle classes and no organized resistance to American occupation.
The Arab world, too, can develop intellectuals, social groups, and eventually countries with liberal economies and societies that are consistent with local cultures.
Societies where women remain substantially under-represented in the labor market, such as in the Middle East, remain especially resistant to women’s rights.
Increases in women’s power and resources are most threatening to family stability in societies marked by gender inequality, where successful women often rebel against marriage.
In countries such as Japan, Italy, and Singapore, where the terms of marriage remain favorable to men, and women have a hard time combining work and family, working women postpone marriage and motherhood much longer than in the US, leading to declines in birth rates that threaten these societies’ future.
CAMBRIDGE – Emmanuel Macron’s victory over Marine Le Pen was much-needed good news for anyone who favors open, liberal democratic societies over their nativist, xenophobic counterparts.
Such societies have well-defined property rights and elaborate systems for protecting them.
This "graying" of the world's richest nations will profoundly affect not only these societies, but poorer countries as well.
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