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In 2004, former Israeli ambassador to the UN Dore Gold published a book called Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos.The book argued that the organization’s approach to issues like genocide and terrorism showed a lack of consistent moral clarity, which occurred between the moral clarity of its founding period and the present day. [1]
10. “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” 11. “Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on – that is, badly.”
Aristotle was a mild critic who "disliked the power that he thought the expansion of democracy necessarily gave to the poor." [6] Plato's political philosophy was skeptical of democracy and advocated for "government by the best qualified". [6] Modern liberal democracy incorporated some of these critiques. [7]
A security assurance, in the context of nuclear warfare, is an expression of a political position by a nuclear-armed nation intended to placate other non-nuclear-armed nations. There are two types of security assurance: positive and negative. [ 1 ]
Negative liberty is primarily concerned with freedom from external restraint and contrasts with positive liberty (the possession of the power and resources to fulfill one's own potential). The distinction originated with Bentham , was popularized by T. H. Green and Guido De Ruggiero , and is now best known through Isaiah Berlin 's 1958 lecture ...
Following are reactions to U.S. President Joe Biden's remark on Saturday that Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power". "For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power," Biden told a ...
Emerging power: A transitional category in which a state or union of states is viewed as on a trajectory of increasing global influence. [47] [48] Regional power: This term is used to describe a nation that exercises influence and power within a region. Being a regional power is not mutually exclusive with any of the other categories of power ...
The security dilemma might force states to form new alliances or to strengthen existing alliances. "If offense has less advantage, stability and cooperation are likely". [1] According to Glenn H. Snyder, under a security dilemma there are two reasons that alliances will form. First, a state that is dissatisfied with the amount of security it ...