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070915
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2006.
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The potential death of the EU enlargement process is a huge blow to the goals of spreading prosperity and democracy in Europe. Nevertheless, the prospect of membership has still not completely lost its potency to spur reform. The risk is that all parties involved might suffer a bitter disillusionment in the end.
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086345
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2009.
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George W. Bush's second inaugural address on January 20, 2005 was clearly written with the history books in mind. In ringing terms, the president proclaimed, "The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world."1The pro-democracy rhetoric of the Bush era, however, already looks hubristic, and even somewhat hypocritical, as a new president prepares to take office in the United States. The sweeping universalism of the language employed by Bush was always vulnerable to qualification, when principle encountered local realities. Certainly in some of the United States' closest democratic allies, such as India, Israel, and the United Kingdom, there is an increasingly open skepticism about the idea of placing democracy promotion at the heart of foreign policy.
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113133
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2012.
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EUROPE'S DEBT crisis is threatening a political order that has been built up over the course of more than a half century. It is still entirely possible-indeed likely-that the European single currency will not survive the crisis. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has predicted that if the euro collapses, the European Union will crumble with it. The destruction of the EU would, in turn, remove the organization around which postwar European politics has been constructed.
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126179
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2013.
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Britain's attitudes may have been shaped by its imperial past, but it defines and pursues its interests like any other state,
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132115
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2014.
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LATER THIS year, the United Kingdom could disunite. In September, Scotland is due to vote on whether to become an independent nation. There is a strong chance that the Scots will vote to go it alone, breaking a political union with England that was established over three hundred years ago, through the Act of Union of 1707. The Scots number only 5.3 million of the United Kingdom's population of 63.7 million. But Scotland accounts for a large amount of Britain's territory and coastline-and contains several of the nation's finest universities, castles and golf courses. Moreover, Scotland is also where Britain's nuclear weapons are based, and the country's (dwindling) oil supplies are almost all located in Scotland's coastal waters.
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100528
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