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The most promising areas for international cooperation today most likely concern problems posed for states by third parties such as criminals and terrorists.
Here, major states would have an interest in limiting damage by agreeing to cooperate on forensics and controls.
By contrast, Ukraine became the worst managed of all the post-Soviet states, with cronyism and corruption thwarting productive capacity, and causing the country to fall further and further behind other post-communist countries in transition.
Countering these factors will require companies to figure out how to sustain the heightened states of awareness and understanding that bring biases to light.
But those “no” votes have obscured the fact that 18 of the EU’s 27 member states have ratified the treaty.
Indeed, with two-thirds of member states and a majority of European citizens supporting the Treaty, it cannot simply be abandoned.
Because all 27 states must ratify the Treaty, it therefore seems obvious that it cannot enter into force in its current form, and that the “yes” countries cannot push ahead with it unchanged.
It is also obvious that member states cannot solve these problems alone, but only through coordinated EU action and common policies.
In fact, the Constitutional Treaty defines more clearly which competencies should be shared between the EU and its member states, and how.
It is no exaggeration to say that a large majority of member states and their citizens has already expressed its wish for this vision of the EU by voting for the Constitutional Treaty.
At a meeting convened by Spain and Luxembourg in Madrid in January to which all the “yes” countries were invited, this view was also supported by four other member states that are committed to the constitutional treaty.
However, the Madrid meeting made clear that there is a consensus among these member states in favor of a Europe that can play a key role in our globalized world, and whose actions are based on the principles – effectiveness, transparency, and democracy – that inspire the European integration process.
By all means, let us try to preserve the solidarity of all 27 EU states.
But those member states that are willing to move forward should not be prevented from doing so.
The group’s first task is simply to win the right to put a candidate on the ballot in all 50 US states to run against the conventional slate of one Democrat and one Republican.
Rules and regulations in most states protect the two parties that have held sway in US politics for more than a century.
His signature achievement was joint authorship with then-Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of the 1992 Cooperative Threat Reduction program (universally known as “Nunn-Lugar”), which successfully secured and dismantled nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction in former Soviet states.
Since then, through successive wars and revolutions, one truth has remained paramount: The Ottoman mosaic provided no clear dividing lines that would permit a smooth reordering of the region into states or entities with homogenous ethnic, national, or religious identities.
Dividing Iraq into separate Sunni and Shia states, for example, could easily result in Mesopotamia’s version of the Indian subcontinent’s tragedy in 1947, when millions of people died fleeing to Pakistan or India after the partition.
Already, many states and cities are adopting reforms to encourage political compromise and improve democratic governance.
Republican-drawn districts in Texas and the six swing states of Ohio, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia had a clear influence in elections to the US House of Representatives in 2016.
Now, almost all of these states’ electoral maps are being challenged as unconstitutional.
And in 24 states, voters can propose ballot initiatives to change districting rules and limit the impact of gerrymandering.
Voters in California and Arizona have already done so, and similar measures will likely be on the ballot in other states in 2018 or 2020.
All 50 states require disclosure for contributions to campaigns for state offices, 39 states have a cap for individual contributions, and 22 states prohibit corporations from contributing to political campaigns altogether.
Furthermore, many states are exploring the possibility of making disclosure rules permanent through constitutional amendments.
And 13 states already offer a public-financing option for candidates running for state office, with many more poised to follow suit in response to grassroots pressure.
If California can do it, so can other states.
The TAP would include the US, Canada, Mexico, the Pacific Alliance countries, and other Latin American states that already have FTAs with the US.
Of course military force needs to be kept in the toolbox, to respond to states that wage aggressive war, like Iraq in 1991.
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