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Palestine is not yet a state, but it is already a failed one.
The PA had an opportunity to lay the institutional foundations for a functioning
state.
It created what is called in Arabic a Mukhabarat (security services) state, very much like what is prevalent in almost all Arab countries – Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, republics and monarchies alike.
This new nationalism takes different economic forms: trade barriers, asset protection, reaction against foreign direct investment, policies favoring domestic workers and firms, anti-immigration measures,
state
capitalism, and resource nationalism.
Fadela Amara, the manager of an NGO that defends women’s right, is a secretary of
state
for city management.
In international relations, power, not right, continued to be the only thing that mattered: the traditional concept of
state
sovereignty focused exclusively on power, i.e., on control over people and territory, and protected the state’s authority, regardless of whether its enforcement was civilized or brutal, democratic or authoritarian.
For the first time, an entire
state
leadership was put on trial for its crimes, as its representatives and henchmen were brought to justice.
With its establishment, resulting from long and terrible experience, the basic idea of modernity – that the power of states and their rulers should be subject to the rule of higher law, thus placing individual rights above
state
sovereignty – has taken a great step forward.
Russia consistently refuses to allow Western companies the same access to Russian facilities that Russian
state
energy companies already enjoy in Europe and the United States.
Although some degree of confrontation with the US does help President Vladimir Putin unite the public while burnishing Russian elites’ nationalist credentials, Russia is not an ideologically motivated
state.
In particular, after Jean-Claude Juncker took over as President of the European Commission in 2014, the EU’s executive branch began to bill itself as a Brussels-based institution capable of leading the way toward what Juncker called in his 2015
State
of the Union speech “more Union in our Union.”
Consider Germany, where the dreadful performance of Merkel’s Christian Democrats in a string of regional elections, including in her home
state
of Mecklenberg-West Pomerania, has caused many to question the country’s trajectory.
And most countries’ politics have proverbial “third rail” issues – policies or programs (say,
state
pensions) that are so sacrosanct that any policymaker who touches them faces instant political death.
In the first case, Dmitri Borodin, the minister counselor at the Russian embassy in The Hague, was arrested late one night in October of last year, after neighbors alerted the Dutch police that Borodin, allegedly in a drunken state, was beating his two small children.
Regardless of the outcome of this year’s presidential and congressional elections, various Republican
state
governors are likely to gain a higher national profile.
It makes them more aware of their rights and duties and affects how they interact within their communities and with the
state
and its institutions.
Such funding will support the steps needed to fulfill the promise, contained in our country’s constitution, that the
state
will “provide free and compulsory secondary education within minimum possible period.”
Dealing with the deficit has required difficult decisions – from reforming the welfare system and increasing the
state
pension age to controlling public-sector pay.
Under China’s constitution, urban land is owned by the state, and rural land by collectives.
Such uncertainty can lead to a frozen
state
of near-entropy.
The enlargement of the EU to include 27 states (with more to come) means that European institutions are likely to remain sui generis, and unlikely to produce a strong federal Europe or a single
state.
As a result, both parties and their coalition will become increasingly unstable over time, a trend that would be accelerated by their poor performance in the 2019 European Parliament election, not to mention in Germany’s upcoming
state
and local elections.
Energy and carbon taxes can raise revenue while leaving the economy in a stronger
state
to sustain a recovery.
Almost every major US state, city, and company has now pledged to do more to ensure that their country can meet its commitments, despite the Trump administration’s opposition.
Next year’s “Talanoa Dialogue” – to be convened by Fiji, which last week became the first island
state
to chair UN climate talks – will help countries identify exactly how they can achieve the goals set in the Paris agreement.
Israel cannot afford to lose one major war, as it would mean the end of the Jewish democratic
state.
Recognizing the blatant injustice – not to mention the destructiveness – of this
state
of affairs, a new initiative, launched by the Carbon Levy Project and supported by a growing number of individuals and organizations, has emerged to demand compensation for vulnerable developing countries from the big polluters.
The solution to the productivity problem is easy to
state
but difficult to accomplish: the country must bridge the widening gap between the “two Mexicos” – the agile, dynamic, post-NAFTA modern economy (the “Aztec tiger”)and the traditional economy of slow-growing, unproductive traditional businesses.
The authorities also want to ban demonstrations on
state
occasions.
Israel Chooses Identity Over DemocracyTEL AVIV – Israel’s new “nation-state law” asserts that “the right [to exercise] national self-determination” in the country is “unique to the Jewish people,” sets Hebrew as the country’s official language, and establishes “Jewish settlement as a national value” that the
state
will work to advance.
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