Understandings
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It is these tacit
understandings
that make it difficult to understand people of another time or place.
Ethnocentrism results from the unchallenged
understandings
that we unwittingly carry with us, and which we cannot dispel by adopting another attitude.
Regardless of whether they have rejected our interpretations and
understandings
or simply have built or failed to build their own in ignorance of what we have done, why have they not used our work?
Its adherents know that key Islamic concepts, beliefs, norms, and values can be harmonized with modern social structures and
understandings
of justice and human rights.
The visit to Jerusalem of Egypt's then-President Anwar el-Sadat, and the ensuing Egypt-Israel breakthrough at Camp David, took place only after successful behind-the-scenes
understandings.
Even some of the most explosive situations on the ground between Israel and its northern neighbors have been defused as a result of
understandings
that often included neutral third parties.
But, for now, Hirohito remains a singularly unfathomable and isolated character who defies common
understandings
– alas, to the detriment of a better understanding of “what actually happened.”
The nineteenth century invented the familiar terms “pure” and “applied” science as a way of reconciling these alternative
understandings.
Without diplomacy and the willingness to work toward viable mutual understandings, as has just happened with the framework agreement negotiated with Iran, the new Middle East will remain the powder keg of world politics – one whose fuse has already been lit.
People happily, and reliably, assign numbers to their
understandings
of everything from complex machines to biological systems to natural phenomena such as the tides; but these ratings are usually far higher than their actual knowledge.
Instead, we have a special deficit with regard to our explanatory
understandings.
And language matters here: indignation suggests that some social actors – a government or elites in general – have violated shared norms or moral
understandings.
Not unreasonably, Russian leaders worry that a future Czech, Polish, Lithuanian, or American government might simply decide to stop enforcing any informal understandings, confronting Russia with a fait accompli.
A universal basic income allows for new
understandings
of liberty and equality that bridge hitherto irreconcilable political blocs, while stabilizing society and reinvigorating the notion of shared prosperity in the face of otherwise destabilizing technological innovation.
In Munich, the EASLG will call on governments to work together to reach at least informal
understandings
about cyber dangers relating to nuclear facilities, strategic warning systems, and nuclear command and control.
That decision contradicted
understandings
according to which hundreds of billions of dollars of debt had already been issued.
In these and other areas, governments will need to rally around regional undertakings, form coalitions of the relevant or willing, or simply seek
understandings
among countries to do their best to adopt common policies.
The second is a set of
understandings
and commitments among the major advanced and developing countries to rebalance the global economy in order to restore aggregate demand and growth.
Communal values and bonds evolve from a long accumulation of experience, with mythological and historical
understandings
that give this experience the appearance of having evolved organically.
The president-elect will return diplomacy to its central place in US foreign policy – reviving the battered State Department – and will strongly favor multilateral
understandings.
Such tolerance allows the poison to spread through the body and soul of democracy, undermining democracy’s institutions by attacking the invisible norms and tacit
understandings
that support them.
Although hardliners in Tehran and Washington prevented further progress, the so-called Swiss track subsequently led to a prisoner exchange between Iran and the US, demonstrating that, with help from friends or partners, basic bilateral
understandings
are possible.
One had to rely on reasoning and discourse – recognizing that no individual had a monopoly on our
understandings
of social organization.
Before our eyes, India’s very character is being transformed by a government with no regard for institutions, understandings, and practices maintained since independence.
Americans like to think that their democracy has guardrails –
understandings
that, absent specific laws, impose limits on certain types of behavior, ensuring that there are things US leaders just won’t do.
It had never occurred to the patrician before that there could be Christians in the army; with astonishment he thought that as fire in a burning city takes in more and more houses, so to all appearances that doctrine embraces new souls every day, and extends itself over all human
understandings.
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