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If, however, the leader of a nuclear-armed
state
is a lunatic who is indifferent to his physical safety and that of those around him, the entire deterrence strategy falls apart.
Iran’s emergence as a nuclear-weapons
state
would almost certainly tempt several of the main Sunni Muslim countries (Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia all come to mind) to embark on a crash program to acquire or develop nuclear arms of their own.
In 2012, the insolvent Greek
state
borrowed €41 billion ($45 billion, or 22% of Greece’s shrinking national income) from European taxpayers to recapitalize the country’s insolvent commercial banks.
He has regularly defended the Palestinians’ rights to a state, but he also condemned Hamas’s rocket attacks on southern Israel.
Instead, she says, “The evidence does support Dr. van Delden’s position that it is possible for a
state
to design a system that both permits some individuals to access physician-assisted death and socially protects vulnerable individuals and groups.”
It is not sufficient for nuclear operators to say that the
state
of security in their facilities is “good enough.”
The region’s people have grown even more accustomed to high levels of
state
spending, and the public discontent revealed by the Arab Spring has not disappeared.
After more than a decade of diplomatic isolation and economic sanctions, its status as a threshold nuclear
state
has been internationally legitimized.
Similar warnings have been repeated over and over by oppressive rulers in the Middle East, not least by Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak: either the secular police
state
or the Islamists; either Mubarak or the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Consequently, France has long suffered from anemic growth and high unemployment – a perfect example of what can happen when the
state
intervenes in economic activities.
In 1952 Turkey (like Greece) became a member of Nato; in 1963 Turkey became an associated
state
of the European Community.
In 1987, however, when Turkey applied for full membership of the European Community, the Commission gave it the thumbs down: Turkey was too poor and too populous (before the unification of Germany, it was bigger than any member state); its human rights record was unacceptable; and it was disqualified by its invasion of northern Cyprus in 1974.
Their choice of Romano Prodi as the President of the new Commission has been explained by some in cynical terms: Jacques Santer, the outgoing President, was a Christian Democrat from a small Northern member
state
(Luxembourg); the next President had to be a Left-of-Centre politician, from a large member
state
in the south of the EU.
Romano Prodi’s most important characteristic is not that he is Italian or left-of centre, but that he is a former prime minister of a large member
state.
This will be a revolutionary change in the European system, which has hitherto operated as if each member
state
has total freedom to nominate its “own” Commissioner(s), and even to lobby for their portfolios.
A free, or as its postcommunist advocates prefer to call it, a "not paid for" education, means education in schools and universities owned by the
state
(but not in private schools).
Thirdly, East European countries are too poor to pay from the
state
budget (as in France or Germany) for quality university education that comes free of direct charge to each student, regardless of means.
An impoverished welfare
state
is a dangerous, undemocratic, and deracinating idea.
State-owned health insurance companies,
state
guaranteed retirement, etc. are not only insecure and inefficient; they are also contrary to the idea of political reform.
These
state
controlled benefits have little to do with the justice supposedly wanted by their socialist promoters, but everything to do with rent-seeking and corruption.
If a general social agreement along these lines, with the
state
viewed not as a facilitator of private transactions but as the benevolent protector of the people, emerges in Eastern Europe, we are likely to end up half in the old world and half in the new.
Such a hybrid, tradition-bound system may function well enough in Asian societies like Japan or South Korea, but not in countries like Poland, which must modernize and demystify their
state
in order to throw off the inherited inertia of the socialist era.
The easy promise of new rights is, today, a pernicious enemy of modernization, and a snare that will keep individuals in thrall to
state
power.
The results have not only created a conflict between US federal law and
state
legislation, but also signal a shift in attitudes not dissimilar to that concerning same-sex marriage.
Finally, Obama advocated holding a “national conversation” on the question of
state
versus federal legislation on such issues.
Uruguay is expected to approve legislation fully legalizing marijuana in January; the Organization of American States is scheduled to deliver a report to the region’s heads of
state
at mid-year on alternative drug-enforcement strategies and existing “best practices” in other countries.
And yet the microtargeted advertising model used by Google and Facebook has disrupted print journalism’s traditional source of revenue, along with coverage of
state
and local governments.
A regional presence corrupting local politicians, it soon expanded its territory and gained control of key positions in municipal and
state
security institutions.
And in Chihuahua, the
state
with the highest number of murders in the country, powerful gangs that were once united are now in open confrontation.
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