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But the threats associated with an aggressively polarized public sphere – one that extremists have proved adept at exploiting – are much greater.
Given this, the Trump administration’s response to the Kremlin’s increasingly assertive behavior in what was once the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence – from Eastern Europe to the Baltics – will also be watched carefully in the coming months.
But they are not entitled to the sphere of influence that Russian tsars and commissars coveted for 300 years.
In Putin's view, the West must acknowledge the entire post-Soviet space, minus the Baltic states, as Russia's exclusive sphere of influence.
In a smaller sphere of operations, the ECS envisages economic development in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.
With the US intent on shifting its attention from Europe’s sphere of vital interests, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, to Asia and the Pacific, it can no longer be expected to take the lead in resolving crises in Europe’s backyard.
In a better world, sophisticated debate in a vibrant public sphere would inform economic policy.
In the public sphere, we have democratic institutions to exercise control.
In the private sphere, corporate governance is increasingly developed into a fairly transparent system.
For them, what is at stake is the principle that sovereign countries have the right to chart their own course, rather than be entangled in a larger power’s sphere of influence.
For the West, a revamped CFE Treaty would help mitigate worries about military threats in the area that Russia has traditionally considered its sphere of influence.
Barroso’s statement thus acknowledged anew, on behalf of the Commission and the Council, the democratic deficit that has long plagued EU institutions – a deficit that they aim to close by creating a pan-European political sphere.
When the two countries upgraded their alliance relationship in 1996, Japan’s military operational sphere was expanded far from the Japanese main island.
Moreover, the Alliance is not an entirely incoherent proposal if the objective is that the West disengage from the politics of hubris and establish a genuine sphere of cooperation with the Muslim world in economics, culture, and science.
The question is this: are Muslims ready to accept that Khomeini’s dictum that “Islam is politics or it is nothing” is wrong, that Islam is a religion and not a form of government, and that, as in the Christian world, there is a sphere for Caesar and a sphere for God?
At the height of America’s power, Russia had resigned itself to the apparently unstoppable encroachment of NATO on the Soviet Union’s former sphere of influence.
That ban was later upheld by the Constitutional Court, which argued that allowing such public religious expression would likely infringe on the “neutrality” of the public sphere, and so lead to “divisiveness.”
If Nato rejects the Baltic states it will need to prevent Moscow from interpreting that decision as confirmation that Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania remain locked within Russia’s sphere of influence and that its Great Power posturing has paid off.
Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed to have achieved his political aim, namely to bring Ukraine, which had been drifting toward Europe throughout the post-Soviet period, firmly back into the Kremlin’s sphere of influence.
The Wahhabi establishment’s role would begin to be limited purely to the social sphere.
Given this, it recommends that, beyond safeguarding media freedom, EU intervention be limited to regulating cross-border issues – such as libel “forum shopping” (when litigants choose the court to which to take their case based on the likelihood of a favorable judgment) – and promoting a European public sphere.
In adopting the headscarf for Europe's public sphere, these girls are unintentionally altering the symbol and the role of Muslim women.
In this era of fake news, astroturf social movements, and misleading anecdotes, it is imperative for anyone who cares about our collective future to get the numbers right, and to get the right numbers into the public sphere.
In this they were realists, but they did demand a measure of civic control over the authorities, both in the political and the economic sphere.
The second factor is America’s pluralistic public sphere, an arena not without religion but with many religions, which are visible and active in civil life as the basis for institutions, publications, and symbols that influence values and conduct.
It is a man-made crisis that has struck every sphere of society and the state.
This challenge has been magnified by the growth of multinational technology companies, which have come to dictate the architecture of the public sphere.
But al-Qaeda – the word means “the base” or “the camp,” that is, nothing more or less than a point of gathering and training – is more like a blurred sphere of influence, comprising individuals and small local cells that act on their own initiative and cooperate very rarely, and only for large-scale operations.
Unlike universities, for-profit media enterprises have never been up to the task of nurturing a robust “public sphere.”
Fortunately, the notion of sovereign obligation is already advanced in this sphere: countries are responsible for trying to detect infectious disease outbreaks, responding appropriately, and notifying others around the world.
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