Sentence examples for behaviour of states from inspiring English sources

Karl Marx attributed war not to the behaviour of states but to the class structure of society.

According to realists, international law in practice imposes few direct constraints on the behaviour of states, in part because there is almost no way of enforcing it.

Systems analysis was applied to international relations to explain how the forces of the international system affect the behaviour of states.

The moral and legal equality implied in the universalist shift was not always fully embraced in practice, but it became a standard against which to judge the behaviour of states; it was so used by the 1968-ers authorityuthoriny in general, and against racism by the leaders of the first, post-colonial, immigrant generation in Britain.

Some theorists, being more optimistic about the nature of states, concentrate upon the removal of the fear and suspicion of other states, which is characteristic of the present as well as of all historical political systems; others, being less optimistic, think mainly of possible controls and restraints upon the behaviour of states.

The major rival of international liberal theory is realism, which contends that the foreign policy behaviour of states is shaped primarily by the anarchic structure of the international system that is, by the absence of a supranational authority capable of effectively providing for the security of individual states.

But the behaviour of state-funded private contractors such as Atos must surely raise the question of who the real scroungers are.

The first one describes the transfer of messages and the second one describes the time behaviour of state transition in the coexistence plant.

But a 2007 study (pdf) found that the environment for civil society (defined as "political, constitutional and legal factors as well as attitudes and behaviour of state and private sector actors towards civil society") is particularly weak.

Six forest-management programs were constructed together with stakeholders to describe the behaviour of state forest managers and private forest owners under each scenario.

The behaviour of State Trooper Brian T. Encinia, the man who pulled Bland over because she failed to use her vehicle's turning signal, is now under increased scrutiny since camera footage of their encounter was released.