Do societies get rich because they have good norms, or do sound norms spread when societies get rich?
But we've looked abroad for common good norms in the past.
It's a hallmark of improving civilization to give more people access to a more complex network of interactions, because they are safe, they have good norms of behavior and trust each other, they have clear laws well enforced, they have access to basic services.
Its recent Olympic ads conform more closely to the generic feel-good norm.
Take a look at this handful of hotels from across Collette's tours for a sense of just how good the norm is on a Collette tour.
Yes, good old Norm has written a humor book entitled, "Drinking With George".
But top generals and career civilians, whose interests converge around the public good, civic norms and global stability, fretted.
In this campaign, social norms are being deployed to make a "bad" behaviour appear to be the choice of a minority, neatly getting around the problem of no obvious "good" social norms being readily available.
But visibility does not necessarily lead to "good" international norms or "good" politics.
For some capabilities, the most important means will indeed be financial resources and economic production, but for others it may be particular political practices and institutions, such as effective guarantees and protections of freedom of thought, political participation, social or cultural practices, social structures, social institutions, public goods, social norms, and traditions and habits.
And I would tie future non-security aid -- again, above the guaranteed baseline -- to Pakistan's progress in developing democratic institutions and meeting good-governance norms.
