In a purely biological sense, fear begins with the body’s system for reacting to things that can harm us—the so-called fight-or-flight response. "An animal that can’t detect danger can’t stay alive." says Joseph LeDoux. Like animals, humans evolved with an elaborate mechanism for pro...
The rage that drove the terrorists to commit their obscene crime was in part, it is argued, a response to that. At the very least, it is suggested, terrorism thrives on poverty and international capitalism, the protesters say, thrives on poverty too. These may be extreme positions, but ...
Labour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, agreed that "hateful extremism threatens the safety of our communities and the unity of our country," and was "a serious problem which demands a serious response". More on Conservatives Related Topics: Conservatives Michael Gove But...
The cultural response to war in Iraq and the war on terrorism—one protracted, the other possibly endless—doesn’t have an exact historical parallel. Unlike World War Ⅱ, the current situation has brought little national unity; unlike the Vietnam era, ours has no appreciable domestic support ...
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In response to the economic crisis in several Asian countries during 1997/98, a group of about ten countries and several INGOs met to design safeguards (Jönsson 2011). In 1999, central bank governors founded the G-20, adding middle powers to the G-8 countries. The G-20 has also ...
And the response of the major powers – including here in Britain – has been, in almost every case, to dial up the anxiety, to legislate, to militarise and to take a variety of increasingly authoritarian actions. In an emergency, all bets are off. A government mayrequire us to stay in...
As Alexei Trochev put it in Judging Russia The Role of the Constitutional Court in Russian Politics 1990–2006,“[i]n response to the Court’s finding that Yeltsin had violated the constitution, Yeltsin shelled the parliament’s building and suspended the [CCRF] by Decree 1612 of 7 October ...
Monetary policy still offers the best short-term policy response to weak economic activity, and with inflation low the Fed still has scope for further relaxation. President Bush’s much-vaunted fiscal stimulus is unlikely to provide appropriate help, and certainly not in a timely way.What is the...