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...became enshrined as the ultimate symbol of solidarity and subsidiarity. As Dr. Sabine Mannitz at the Peace Institute Research Frankfurt (PRIF) writes, “the Swiss concept of the citizen-soldier aims at the lowest possible degree of institutionalising military structures and at a maximum of immediate democratic control.” Compulsory militia service, the obligation to defend the polity on equal share, is the other side of the coin of semi-direct democratic participation rights. If you have equal decision-making power, you have equal responsibility...
...What drives the opposition to burqas? Is it that Europeans feel the person wearing it is the victim of a mind-control culture that subjugates women, or is it that they find the presence of burqa-wearers to be a fundamental blight on European society and culture...
...month military assault had rid the Swat Valley of Taliban fighters, residents are leery of returning as violence continues to plague the region. In recent days, the discovery of an active Taliban recruitment cell and the beheaded body of a kidnapped policeman have fed fears that militants remain in control. Some 2 million people were displaced during the offensive in April...
...surfaced in international media that in an effort to respond to the rapid graying of the workforce, some couples in China's most populous city would be encouraged to have two kids. Shanghai officials denied any policy shift, but rumors persist that Beijing might be rethinking its controversial population-control policy...
...weeks ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Iran, "You have a right to pursue the peaceful use of civil nuclear power. You do not have a right to obtain a nuclear weapon. You do not have the right to have the full enrichment and reprocessing cycle under your control." But both the Iranian government and its opposition believe that Iran is due the same rights as any other signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which includes the right to enrich uranium to the levels necessary for reactor fuel, under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA...