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Such a scenario is reminiscent of the World War II vision of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who proposed that the four victorious allies – the US, the UK, China, and the Soviet Union – act as “Four Policemen,” each patrolling its own
sphere
of influence and negotiating with the others on world peace.
We see this now in the political
sphere.
Many countries have powerful elites with outsize influence, but in India, dynastic elites control the top echelons in every
sphere
of public life: politics, business, the media, and even Bollywood.
One of the greatest obstacles to the spread of democracy is the widely held view that religion and democracy are inimical to each other: to adopt democracy means to banish God and religion from the public
sphere
and make it strictly a private affair.
No court should convict someone lightly because of the views he espouses in the public
sphere.
But if gassy rhetoric alone does not suffice, he may decide to go on the offensive, particularly in the international
sphere.
Excluding them from the
sphere
of beings to whom we owe moral consideration can then seem arbitrary, or just plain wrong.
Ukraine – the great prize in Russia’s bid to recapture its former
sphere
of influence – is also deeply anxious.
The diplomatic Europe, incarnated by EU founding father Jean Monnet, took big, sensitive questions out of the
sphere
of popular politics and reduced them to manageable technical issues that diplomats could address through bureaucratic compromises behind closed doors.
In other words, the rule of law in Saudi Arabia is the rule of misogyny – the comprehensive legal exclusion of women from the public
sphere.
In fact, even economists in communist dictatorships could proffer their best technical advice with a comparatively clean conscience, because they were convinced that introducing more market-mediated outcomes would inject efficiency into planned economies and increase the
sphere
of individual freedom.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, determined to restore by force the
sphere
of influence once held by the Russian/Soviet empire, has shredded the rules that have ensured peace in Europe – indeed, in much of the world – for three generations.
Compared to these two models, Putin’s model of state-society relations looks like a divorce, or at least a separation: each side minds its own business and doesn’t interfere with the other’s
sphere.
The use of online social networks, for example, has grown faster than in any other country in Europe, and has helped create some semblance of a public sphere, with the Russian blogosphere often a venue for angry public expression about social injustice, undeserved privileges, lawlessness, and police impunity.
It demands a high degree of disciplined republican participation and a belief in the possibility of personal fulfillment and excellence in the public
sphere.
Putin’s promise to restore national self-respect, shattered by Russia’s bitter loss of superpower status in 1991, is centered around cowing Europe into submissively accepting Russia’s
sphere
of “privileged interest” in the post-Soviet nations.
Threats to expel Russia from the G-8 or keep it out of the World Trade Organization will only increase its sense of isolation, strengthen its authoritarianism, and push it into the role of a revolutionary anti-status quo power in the Soviet Union’s old
sphere
of influence and beyond.
Nevertheless, as a restored great power, the new Russia will for the time being attempt to ride in the slipstream of other great powers for as long as doing so coincides with its possibilities and interests; it will concentrate on its own
sphere
of influence and on its role as a global energy power; and it will otherwise make use of its opportunities on a global scale to limit America’s power.
All of these are worthy goals, to be sure, but they belong intrinsically to the
sphere
of national political decisions.
The three new members of the Alliance belong to the Western
sphere
of civilization.
A natural self-delimitation of one sphere, however, does not mean that it considers itself to be better than other spheres, or that it defines itself in opposition to anyone else.
A “Trans-Pacific Partnership” between Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the US, and Vietnam to govern supply-chain management, intellectual-property protection, investment, rules on state-owned firms, and other trade issues – likely to be announced in Hawaii – is a good start in the economic
sphere.
Despite having been cajoled by Putin with lavish financial support and cheap gas, Ukraine is unlikely to join a Russia-led EurAsEC, which is more a means of anchoring former Soviet republics to Russia’s
sphere
of influence than it is a vehicle to promote trade.
By integrating its foreign, economic, and security policies, China is advancing its goal of fashioning a hegemonic
sphere
of trade, communication, transportation, and security links.
China the Responsible StakeholderTOKYO – Come to Asia and you will hear a growing chorus of concern that China is building a
sphere
of influence in the region.
And Putin is already making concessions in the diplomatic
sphere.
Limited power, he said, is often confused with weak power, which lacks the tools needed to act within its
sphere
of authority.
But it is the
sphere
of authority that should be limited, not the power to act within those limits.
In the social sphere, theories have the capacity to alter the subject matter to which they relate.
Asian leaders have often complained that at a time when Asia became increasingly interconnected and China began to enlarge its
sphere
of influence, America was largely absent in the region.
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