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Take the 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who invented most of the supposedly ancient traditions around the British monarchy.
These values are the foundation upon which all religious and cultural traditions rest.
Worse still, we would bring this conflict into our own societies, where different religious and cultural traditions are now inextricably mingled.
Similar shifts have occurred in other European countries when established parties and traditions fell apart.
Its society adheres to tribal traditions that afford its ruling elite, headed by the royal family, a paternal and omnipotent role in determining the direction and form of economic development.
For like their Western counterparts, the Polish and Hungarian conservatives are caught between their increasingly unappealing neo-liberalism and their increasingly anachronistic communitarian traditions.
There was much talk recently about the "crisis of the left," as the Labor party in Britain, the Social-Democrats in Germany, and the Democrats in America had to struggle between their old socialist and New Deal traditions and the imperatives of a modern economy, with the fading labor unions and other political bastions of the old left.
And the communitarian traditions of the right, with their nationalist past lurking behind, may not be any easier to revitalize than the old fashioned socialism or New Deal populism.
A third layer of this problem is the increasingly symbiotic alliance between radical Islamist groups in Sweden and a left that has departed from the honorable social-democratic traditions for which the country is famous around the world.
Even countries with much longer democratic traditions have struggled to come to terms with their histories of collaboration in the Holocaust.
You cannot follow the model of a "modern" nation-state cutting across tribal boundaries and conventions, and then argue that tribal traditions should be applied to judge the state's human-rights conduct.
Our default reaction, often reinforced by Western philosophical traditions and simplistic political rhetoric, is that evil acts must be the product of fundamentally evil or insane individuals.
The destructive ideology represented by Boko Haram is not part of the country’s traditions; it has been imported.
Of course, says Goodhart, immigrants do not have to abandon their traditions completely, but “there is such a thing as society,” and if they make no effort to join it, native citizens will find it hard to consider them part of the “imagined community.”
This should not be impossible, because both Saudi Arabia and Yemen have moderate, indigenous Islamic traditions that can be mobilized against jihadism.
In the Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions, human nature is fundamentally corrupted by sin, but can be redeemed by embracing God, in whose image we have been created.
In a region that reveres the elderly, Zuma’s attachment to his rural traditions must be matched by an equal openness to the appetites of the country’s youth.
It is, for example, one of the first precepts of one of Japan’s major ethical traditions, Buddhism.
This model came to dominate every West European country, with local traditions and local politics dictating the diversity of its application.
In Egypt, the economic challenges are so dire, and traditions of consensual governance so shallow, that it may be impossible for any party to rule democratically in the foreseeable future, let alone the Muslim Brotherhood, which would have to reinvent itself completely.
Rather, it is the key to consolidating our history, our pride, our traditions, our way of life, and our values in a dynamic global environment, for the sake of today’s citizens and tomorrow’s.
Islamic EvangelismMany believe that religious revival and political radicalism among Muslims who reside in the West reflects the traditions and conflicts of the Middle East or the wider Muslim world.
Together, these three countries represent the complete diversity of foreign policy traditions that one can find in the future 25-member EU.
Trying to pool these traditions may look like trying to square a circle.
In the mouth of this serially bankrupt billionaire and con artist with possible mafia ties, they have become the bottom line of the American creed – so much mental junk food full of fatty thoughts, overwhelming the lighter cosmopolitan flavors of the myriad traditions that have formed the great American pastoral.
The New Thirty Years’ WarNEW YORK – It is a region wracked by religious struggle between competing traditions of the faith.
The End of the New World OrderDENVER – Russia’s annexation of Crimea and ongoing intimidation of Ukraine appears to mean the end of a 25-year period whose hallmark was an effort to bring Russia into greater alignment with Euro-Atlantic goals and traditions.
On human rights, the US argues that there are indeed fundamental differences between the two countries’ political traditions and current systems.
They believed in institutions more than in hallowed traditions, and in internationalism rather than chauvinism.
The foundational principles of our democratic traditions are at stake – principles that are being weakened by the clash itself.
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