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Shockingly, then, shortly after taking office, the Obama administration disavowed the letter. Denying the existence of any “informal or oral agreement” on Israeli construction in Jerusalem and the settlement blocs, the State Department further asserted that the letter “did not become part of the official position of the United States.”

Eleven years after the civil war and genocide that took place in Rwanda in 1994, the world embraced the Responsibility to Protect doctrine (commonly referred to as R2P), which in principle provides a basis for interventions by other countries or regional or global organizations (be it with words, sanctions, or even military force) in situations in

the Marshall Plan, announced by Secretary of State George Marshall in June 1947. The focus was on Europe’s recovery; the aid ($150 billion in today’s dollars) was extensive but transitional, with the goal of getting Europe to the point where its economic growth would be self-sustaining.

Le ton éploré de Röpke reflète le sentiment d’impuissance des universalistes à la fin des années 1950. Ils se trouvaient confrontés, d’un côté de l’Atlantique, à une intégration européenne à leurs yeux protectionniste, de l’autre, à un gardien peu fiable de l’ordre économique mondial, et, en même temps, à une ONU qui accueillait des nations du Sud

Obviously Reich’s influence went way beyond just me. Alongside other authors such as Anthony Giddens[411] and Jeremy Rifkin[412], he was instrumental in crafting the message of a new generation of progressive leaders that the era of the steady, lifelong job was over. In a more global and unstable world, lifelong education was the new key to providi

we must break definitively both with neoliberal economics and with the various politics of recognition that have lately supported it—casting off not just exclusionary ethnonationalism but also liberal-meritocratic individualism.

We are left, in the end, with a need, a hope, and a conundrum. The need is to steer the new age of globalization so that our energies are directed toward ending human poverty rather than human life. The hope is that across the world’s societies and religions there are common ethical underpinnings. The conundrum is how easily we nonetheless fall pre

La démocratie a besoin non seulement d’un parlement représentatif issu d’élections, non seulement d’une séparation entre pouvoir exécutif, pouvoir législatif et pouvoir judiciaire, mais aussi d’une pluralité de conceptions et d’opinions antagonistes dans l’arène politique, de liberté de la presse, de médias et d’opinion, de respect des droits indiv