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It is a "global commons" problem - the solution requires all nations to act together, not alone.
As in the case of the Montreal Protocol, an effective response to climate change requires many nations to act.
The Genocide Convention defines such behavior as genocide, and it obliges nations to act to stop it.
Can the European left look to Norway to push the world's powerful nations to act morally abroad?
"It is the shared interest of all nations to act responsibly in space to help prevent mishaps, misperceptions and mistrust," the new policy says in its opening lines.
The accord is nonetheless significant in that it codifies the commitments of individual nations to act on their own to tackle global warming.
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The first step may be to recognize that the very fact of that power can make it more, not less, difficult for the nation to act unilaterally.
No one expects a nation to act for the common good, but it seems doubtful that India's ban is even in its own narrow interests.Trying to keep prices low favours textile makers but is bad for farmers who grow the stuff.
Obama called on the nation to act against gun violence.
Having so many powerful nation-states allows each nation to act as a laboratory for the others, learning from each other's successes and shortcomings.
He framed it as a desperate effort to lead by example: The move, he said, would cost Kiribati millions of dollars in revenue, but was the right thing to do and demonstrated that it was possible for a nation to act against its shortterm interests for the greater good.
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