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For starters, faster growth is unlikely to reverse the current trend toward inequality, and a few small, targeted presidential interventions into the actions of specific states or companies are hardly going to change that.
Recent low growth rates have made potential entrepreneurs far more reluctant to move across states or to change jobs, and have reduced economic mobility in general.
The Bundesbank’s position on this question is well known; a leaked submission to the Constitutional Court last year declared unequivocally that, “It is not the duty of the ECB to rescue states in crisis.”
But, given that legal-empowerment efforts constrain state power, there is a natural disincentive for states to finance them.
The irony is that while King Abdullah has energetically taken on a leading role in the region’s turbulent affairs, he seems unable to respond to Saudi Arabia’s acute lag in democratic reform in comparison to neighbors like Jordan and the Gulf states.
To make air travel feasible and safe, states ensure that pilots know how to fly and that aircraft pass stringent tests.
The Istanbul Cooperation Initiative of 2004, triggered by the trauma of the 9/11 attacks, holds far greater potential, for it transforms NATO’s relations with friendly states in the Middle East from dialogue to partnership – a level comparable to the Partnership for Peace program used to promote Central and Eastern European countries to full membership.
Not surprisingly, then, of all the states in the region, it is Israel that has established the closest links with NATO.
Nowadays, another major controversy has erupted in several Indian states, owing to a research project to vaccinate girls against cervical cancer – an issue that has now entered the US presidential campaign, because Texas’s governor, Rick Perry, now seeking the Republican presidential nomination, backed a similar mandatory program.
Whereas ASEAN member states – particularly the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia – generally have deep military ties with the US, they also value their economic ties with China.
The reality is that ASEAN states could choose to become independent players, rather than pawns in the US-China competition, implying that it is in China’s interest to maintain ambiguity in US-ASEAN relations.
Second, by militarizing outcroppings and artificial islands in the South China Sea, China is unwittingly strengthening ultra-nationalist groups in the ASEAN states.
Most ASEAN member states are middle-income countries with educated elites who hold diverse views.
China should rethink its insistence that negotiations over its territorial claims could be conducted only with individual ASEAN states, and not with ASEAN as a bloc – a stance that creates the impression that China is committed to bringing about the group’s breakup.
But China should not encourage ASEAN’s demise, because that would drive several now-neutral ASEAN states further toward the US.
Yet NATO states have no answer to the question that logically follows: What would a political solution entail?
In general, those states whose leaders have forthrightly apologized for past crimes have benefited from doing so.
The other is rooted in federalism: it could be used only for crimes “against the United States,” or federal crimes, not crimes prosecuted by one of the 50 US states.
The key to enabling the EU to meet this potential – to save itself and the world from catastrophe – is for member states urgently to adopt a “European Union first” mantra.
On the contrary, it would compel member states’ governments to look beyond narrow national interest, defend openness and multilateralism, and confront head-on the exclusionary political forces that have lately been gaining ground.
It would drive member states to consolidate the EU, thereby enabling it to overcome the challenges it faces and help preserve the international order.
Its member states are uniquely committed to multilateralism; indeed, we practice it daily.
On the contrary, the point is to highlight why EU member states must dedicate themselves to the continued construction of a stronger and deeper union.
We propose that the Council’s permanent members, along with key Middle Eastern states, appoint humanitarian envoys whose sole purpose would be to secure access to those in need.
Some allege that the government’s bill, by requiring a similar ombudsman in each of India’s states, was an assault on Indian federalism.
Many member states will worry about leaping straight to the contentious issue of ultimate membership for Ukraine, but the EU already recognizes Ukraine’s theoretical right to join once it has met the Copenhagen criteria; and it cannot be beyond EU leaders’ verbal dexterity to play up the prospect.
In Eastern Europe, Poland’s governing Civic Platform outperformed the nationalist opposition, while voters in the Baltic states, where the economic effects of austerity were the most severe in the entire EU, endorsed centrist European Parliament candidates.
Romney supports gradually increasing retirement ages, a premium-support model for Medicare, and shifting Medicaid (health insurance for the poor) to the states via block grants.
Obama would steer America in the direction of European social-welfare states;Romney’s agenda is designed to prevent that.
A Middle East comprising several nuclear weapons states is a recipe for catastrophe.
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