Travel the ex-communist region between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic seas, and, sadly, you will not find one united, modernizing government. Instead, there is sleaze and racism in Slovakia's government, eccentricity and petulant incompetence in Poland, an admission of blatant lying by Hungary's prime minister, and no government at all in the Czech Republic. Western Europe could do more. The mean-minded protectionism aimed at the ex-communist countries has undermined belief in the fairness and neutrality of European rules. Why can rich countries' banks move capital freely throughout the single market, when poor countries' plumbers and dentists may not sell their services where they like? Perhaps. But now there is another factor: Russia. The past week has seen more signs of Russia's slid...
Turns out judicial appeals mean that it costs more money to send the guilty to death row than to a maximum security prison. Ending capital punishment is part of a set of great values that have evolved in developed secular democracies in the last few decades. Voices -- usually religious -- speak out to bring back not only the death penalty, but also restrictions on our freedoms, inequality for women, discrimination against gays and lesbians, and corporal punishment for children.
...We were then one of only a handful of countries to do so. During the time of the Mulroney Conserva... live in the world, like the countries of western Europe. The United States is one of just a few dev...
... and from experiments conducted in Europe, where interculturalism, as a formula for coexiste... interculturalism found in the majority of Western democracies is a pluralist mindset, meaning sensit... Canada, Australia, and several European countries, including England. We can define these accommodat...
The current economic crisis, the continuing ineffectiveness or unwillingness of our "globalized" system to deal with hunger and climate change, and today's quickly rising oil prices due to Mideast conflict are fuelling not only higher, but also more unpredictable, food costs. Reduced production due to inclement weather (climate change) has been combined with increased, even panic, buying because of natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes and droughts (in Australia, Eastern Europe, New Zealand and East Africa), thus exacerbating price rises.
...Prices are also going up in western countries, 10 per cent per year in Britain and Eur...
... expand to include other democratic countries that share NATO's values and core interests, inclu...No longer concerned solely with European security, NATO is now an alliance with an increasi... Bevin, instrumental in creating the Western Union that preceded the alliance, justified the un...
... climate conditions, and defined by European explorers and North American settlers as a geograp... mid-1980s, the Arctic was divided into a 'Western' and an 'Eastern' sector, between which there was ... economic reasons but because the two countries are thought to be very close culturally, ideologic...
This paper starts with a brief description of recent Russian economic and political developments and identifies the poor institutional capacity of the state as the major obstacle to growth. Then cross-country regressions are used to provide evidence for two arguments. First, the single most important factor limiting the inflow of FDI to Russia seems to be the inefficiency of the government - its inability to enforce rules and regulations. It is not the lack of the rule of law, or high level of corruption, or insufficient democratization, or low degree of economic freedom. Second, given the poor government effectiveness, the benefits of FDI are quite weak and may be outweighed by cost (repatriation of profits, but no transfer of technology).
... or democratic; China and Central European countries, with murder rates of about two per 100,..., as opposed to one to two persons in Western and Eastern Europe, Canada, Japan, Mauritius and I...
.... In western coverage of the event there was little mention of ... Russia (unlike the US and several other countries) has ratified the law of the sea convention and ap... to contiguous countries in western Europe, oil and gas were also transported largely by land...
The development of Western China should take a new path,different from that which people before us have taken in Western China, from that which industrialists have taken on the East Coast and also from that which developed countries have taken in Europe and the United States. The path I propose here is built upon constructive postmodernism. The path isn't the one and only option but can serve as an alternative worth exploring.
... matters among the eight Arctic countries: Russia, the United States (Alaska), Canada, Denma..., average annual temperatures in the western Canadian Arctic have increased by more than three ... a similar shortcut between east Asia and Europe, while a third option--sailing straight across the...
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