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Since the Cold War, when it was positioned as a bulwark against Soviet expansionism, NATO has proved adept at developing responses to conventional threats posed by
state
actors.
To be sure,
state
actors – in particular, an increasingly assertive Russia – remain a potent threat.
Given this, any “southern flank strategy” will need to include initiatives to bolster southern countries’ defenses against
state
actors, such as expanding the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 in the Mediterranean and accelerating the NATO Response Force’s move toward a more flexible and deterrence-focused posture.
And there is the risk of
state
collapse, accompanied by the specter of border change.
There is considerable regional and international agreement on what would count as a just solution: an independent
state
of Palestine, roughly around the 1967 borders, a resolution of the refugee problem, and an arrangement to share Jerusalem.
Putin’s startlingly high popularity certainly cannot be attributed to a positive view of
state
structures in general.
To keep money coming, he shortened the maturity of domestic and foreign liabilities; to keep the music going he gave
state
governments leeway to spend money they didn't have.
The result is a vote in some or other of India’s 29
state
assemblies every six months or so, each one acting as a sort of referendum on the government in New Delhi.
India’s latest round of elections included five
state
assemblies.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prevailed in Uttar Pradesh – India’s largest state, which is home to more than 200 million people and has produced seven of 15 prime ministers – and in neighboring Uttarakhand.
The main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, triumphed in the northwestern
state
of Punjab and won pluralities in Goa and Manipur (though the BJP formed governments in the latter two states anyway, by assembling coalitions to ensure legislative majorities).
Victory in Uttar Pradesh was critical to enable Modi to take control of India’s Upper House, whose members are elected by
state
legislative assemblies.
There’s nothing statesmanlike about it, and yet it will happen again soon, with a fresh round of elections, including in Modi’s home
state
of Gujarat, due before the end of the year.
Perhaps the answer lies in the US or Latin American model, with a directly elected chief executive – a president, at the national level, and a governor, at the
state
level – serving a fixed term as both head of
state
and head of government.
Should citizens love their state, why they should feel attached to it, what kind of attachment should this be, why, indeed, should people make sacrifices for the sake of independent statehood?
It is time, I believe, for people in this region to perceive the
state
as a tool for the defense of their homes, and thus of a part of themselves.
Readiness to defend the
state
is a specific manifestation of a human being's sense of personal dignity.
If we rebel against humiliation, insult or enslavement as individuals; if we defend our individual human dignity and resist attacks that threaten it; we do -- indeed we must do -- precisely the same as a community that has established a state, because the
state
is, among other things, an instrument to protect our life together in freedom.
In other words: readiness to defend a democratic
state
and its values against violence, aggression and evil should be nothing less than a natural extension of the inherent will of each individual to defend one's own dignity against potential threats.
Preparation of effective defense of the
state
is unthinkable without a greater or lesser degree of participation of all the
state'
s institutions.
In a democratic
state
these engage in the defense effort only insofar as society understands the importance of defense in the first place.
It is thus necessary to remind ourselves time and again that defending the
state
means first and foremost defending the human dignity of every one of us.
Building confidence in the
state
means reinforcing that which safeguards a worthy, free, safe and happy life for us all as a community, and thus also as individuals.
If we want to be a community of people who enjoy living together in a shared home, who love that home and who govern the
state
democratically, we all must understand the meaning of the sacrifices that we make, or are prepared to make, to ensure the defense of our new states.
It is naive to assume that the most populous EU member
state
could and should keep out of a crisis situation in a region with immediate manifold European and German security interests.
In the first place, it is becoming an institution concerned with
state
debt, particularly with its term structure, and with ensuring that the market for that debt continues to operate smoothly, without episodes of breakdown and panic.
Workers are either forced into the informal sector, where basic workplace protections are absent, or they become reliant on
state
handouts, creating fertile ground for populist politicians and criminals.
For his part, Obama supported the Arab Spring uprisings, but offered no pro-democratic strategy – an approach that has led Libya to become a failed state, Egypt to become even more dictatorial, and Syria to collapse into nightmarish and protracted conflict.
Individual states held elections for their officials, but there were no elected officials (or parties) who ran on platforms and programs that transcended the boundaries of the sovereign
state
units.
Instead, they invented the idea of shared sovereignty – the system of federalism that allows for multiple levels of government and for local, state, regional, and national loyalties to coincide, rather than compete.
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