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And it would remind Russia of its international legal obligations, specifically as a member of both the OSCE and the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states, including Russia and others who flout some its conventions.
Ultimately, the new government’s program will likely reflect the suspicion that other EU member states want to solve their problems with German money rather than domestic reforms.
When sub-Saharan African countries gained independence in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, their leaders inherited bankrupt states with no access to international capital markets.
This would provide the region with the muscle to pursue a development strategy similar to that adopted in the past by the US, the European Union’s member states, and the East Asian countries.
Nor were there any states with Jewish majorities that were hostile to the West.
Small Countries’ Big SuccessesZURICH – Scotland’s vote on independence from the United Kingdom has spurred widespread debate about the secession of small states, such as Slovenia and Croatia in 1991, or the independence drive today in Spain’s autonomous region of Catalonia.
But small countries’ economic growth is often more volatile – a tendency that younger states must learn to contain if they are to prosper in the long term.
Developing small states like Croatia, Oman, Kuwait, and Uruguay may consider exhortations to emulate countries like Switzerland and Norway to be impractical.
The views expressed here do not represent the views of the United Nations or its member states.
From now on, it appeared to Israelis, the US will treat all states the same when it comes to nuclear weapons.
India and Pakistan, unlike Israel, which has been committed to a strategy of nuclear opacity, both see themselves as nuclear states and want the world to accept that status.
But EU member states, facing their own fiscal constraints, have shown no willingness to consider additional bilateral aid.
By contrast, when the Industrial Revolution increased the value of larger markets, Italy (1861-1871) and Germany (1870-1871) were created by unifying smaller states on the basis of nationalist sentiment and a common language, both of which actually had to be created.
But the world is full of states that are very diverse in these two dimensions, in which an alternative sense of “us” evolves and is constantly redefined by politics.
In 1947, they refused the UN partition plan, which called for the establishments of two states in British Palestine.
In the early 1950s, Jean Monnet wrote: "We are not forming a coalition of states.
Even in the new member states, enthusiasm for the European family of democracies is cooling.
The preamble of the Constitution states that Europe is "united in its diversity."
Since even the smallest states have two senators, this leads to overrepresentation of lightly populated Western states that tend to vote Republican.
Thus, the two candidates’ campaigns are focusing heavily on a dozen or so states in which voters are closely divided and could sway the electoral college outcome.
Each campaign is now desperately trying to gauge the impact of the financial crisis on these battleground states.
The good news is that, so far, the European Union and its member states have taken precisely this stance.
They also know that in an increasingly intergovernmental EU, some member states would not necessarily consider the prospect of a weakened Spain to be a negative outcome.
It should also be abhorrent to member states, which continue to guard their sovereignty and prerogatives.
The policies chosen are different, but all states favor solutions that seem most appropriate to them.
Fighting for transparency also implies confronting states that refuse to collaborate on financial issues at a global level or to combat money laundering or prevent financial risks.
And in California, among other states, demands for greater local autonomy are growing louder, occasionally echoing the rhetoric of Catalan secessionists or Brexiteers in the United Kingdom.
States certainly have the legal authority to adopt policies that are at odds with federal policy.
In fact, the Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution explicitly reserves for the states all powers not delegated to the federal government.
And states may sue the federal government, as Republican governors and attorneys general have done to overturn several Obama-era regulations and executive orders.
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