When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak.
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The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.
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All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that really matters, that will make life better for a lot of people.
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There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.
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An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.
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There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined in Catalonia and Spain, in Ukraine and Russia.
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Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence.
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I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language.
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I may have come into politics with an unacknowledged condescension toward the game and the people who played it, but I left with more respect for politicians than when I went in. The worst of them - the careerists and predators - you find in all professions. The best of them were a credit to democracy.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
