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• The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive role in shaping a new world order or is doomed to await collapse in a passive posture. We believe a new orderwill be born no later than early in the next century and that the death throes of the old and the birth pangs of the new will be a testing time for the human species.

  Richard A. Falk

  Believe, Order, Nwo

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• Historically, international law lent a measure of legality to the colonial system, and allowed the West to set the rules for participation as a sovereign state on a global level. It also protected the interests of foreign investment in countries of the global South even when these were exploitative, and deprived countries of the benefits of resources situated within their territories.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Law, Benefits

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Hamas retains the right to defend Gaza by the use of the weaponry at its disposal, and is thus not committed to nonviolence, but it does offer the possibility of greater peace and stability for both Israelis and Palestinians if the label of "terrorism" was abandoned and the search for accommodation was commenced in good faith.

  Richard A. Falk

  Doe, Labels, Use

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• It may be that there is so much ambiguity and ideology attached to the term 'terrorism' that it is best to avoid its use altogether, as it is likely to be twisted in public discourse to demonise the enemies of the established order, while exempting state violence from legal and moral scrutiny.

  Richard A. Falk

  Order, Enemy, Violence

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Como Gandhi respondió célebremente cuando le preguntaron por la "civilización occidental": "Ojalá tuvieran una", lo mismo se aplica a la "comunidad internacional": "Ojalá hubiera una".

  Richard A. Falk

  Civilization, Community, Wish

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• The central task of our time is to evolve a new system of world order based on principles of peace and justice.

  Richard A. Falk

  Order, Justice, Principles

  Richard A. Falk (1983). “The end of world order: essays on normative international relations”, Holmes & Meier Publishers

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• Un rasgo agravante de esta atmósfera posterior al 11-S es que arroja sospechas sobre los musulmanes y sobre el Islam como religión que se interpreta como intrínsecamente violenta u orientada a la muerte, con una animadversión particular contra Estados Unidos y los estadounidenses.

  Richard A. Falk

  America, Atmosphere, Islam

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• The main challenge is what to do in the face of double standards. Those who should be rendered accountable under international criminal law, the Kissingers of this world, enjoy de facto impunity, while those who come from countries that have long been targets of hegemonic abuse are used as poster children of accountability.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Children, Law

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Parecería ser el caso que la presión sobre Irán para adquirir armas nucleares está casi totalmente impulsada por su necesidad de una capacidad de disuasión para evitar el destino de Irak, Libia. Por tanto, el uso de la fuerza militar estadounidense en Siria envía exactamente el mensaje contrario al supuestamente deseado a los dirigentes de Teherán, y a otros. Corea del Norte ha sido tratada diplomáticamente porque tiene la bomba y podría utilizarla si se le provoca.

  Richard A. Falk

  Military, Fate, Iran

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Any move by Israel to end the conflict with the Palestinians by unilateral moves - such as annexing the West Bank, delinking Gaza and declaring that there be no further diplomatic process - will lead to strong regional and global reactions, as well as intensify efforts at the UN and in civil society to brand Israel as an outlaw state dangerous to regional and world peace and guilty of criminal behavior.

  Richard A. Falk

  Strong, Moving, Israel

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• No debemos descartar la posibilidad de que la diplomacia de Trump pueda desescalar las luchas en Oriente Medio y las tensiones internacionales, dar a Estados Unidos un perfil global más bajo y permitir que surja un orden mundial más equilibrado, haciendo la mayor parte de su daño aquí en casa, a través de movimientos para implementar su visión del nacionalismo nativista.

  Richard A. Falk

  Moving, Home, Order

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• Since Israel would rather re-experience Masada than renounce the core Zionist objective of establishing a Jewish state, the only one-state "solution" on the horizon of realistic possibilities is an Israeli "one state" that fulfills the messianic nationalist ideal embraced by deep Zionism, likely consisting of completing the expansionist process of recent years by incorporating all or most of the West Bank, casting Gaza adrift, consolidating control over Jerusalem, and transferring as many West Bank Palestinians as possible to Jordan.

  Richard A. Falk

  Israel, Years, Horizon

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• When I told my son that I had to give a talk about my work to non-mathematicians, he warned me that regular people don't think like mathematicians.

  Richard A. Falk

  Son, Science, Thinking

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• America is perhaps best viewed as an 'authoritarian democracy' within its own territory and as 'a global state' of a new kind when considered internationally.

  Richard A. Falk

  America, Democracy, Territory

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• To be a hegemon is inherently ambiguous, usually implying some mixture of dominance and legitimacy, that is, being seen as contributing global leadership in a generally benevolent manner.

  Richard A. Falk

  Mixtures, Dominance, Legitimacy

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• To achieve effectiveness and legitimacy it is time to scrap the right of veto given to permanent members of the UN, or at least severely restrict its use. It is also time to either abandon the idea of permanent membership or broaden it to reflect the rise of non-Western states to the status of global leaders (e.g. Brazil, India, Indonesia, Turkey, South Africa), and to downgrade European representation by either giving the European Union a single seat or rotating a European state among Germany, France, UK, and Italy.

  Richard A. Falk

  Turkeys, Ideas, Effectiveness

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• At present, the United States, with over 700 foreign military bases, navies in every ocean, a programme to militarise space, and drone bases planned for all regions of the world, is increasingly perceived in relation to its hard power diplomacy, a threat to political independence and stability for many countries.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Military, Ocean

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• When Daniel Gorenstein was chair, he did mathematics from 5am to 12noon, spending the second half of his working day on administration. When I was chair, I also spent half of my time on research: every other minute.

  Richard A. Falk

  Science, Research, Half

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• I don't like to end my talk with a 700 million dollar loss, even if it shows the importance of Numerical Analysis.

  Richard A. Falk

  Science, Loss, Dollars

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• More recently the US has more accurately been viewed as a militarist 'empire' that fights destructive wars and intervenes in a variety of societies, especially in the Middle East to retain control over oil reserves, and lends crucial support to Israel that not only oppresses the Palestinian people but threatens to convert the entire region into a war zone.

  Richard A. Falk

  War, Fighting, Oil

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• Una vez me llamaron de un banco para pedirme que calculara una hipoteca, ya que sus ordenadores no funcionaban. Fue un momento muy deprimente.

  Richard A. Falk

  Depressing, Science, Asking

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• The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".

  Richard A. Falk

  Science, Tools, Fifth Grade

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• When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians, she said: "You got what to wear?".

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  Mother, Science, Giving

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• So far, the official definitions of terrorism have the role of demonizing the enemies of the United States and Israel, and of sanitizing recourse to indiscriminate force by both governments that causes widespread death of innocent civilians. This double standard is built around the current way in which the vocabulary of terrorism is being used in this country.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Vocabulary, Government

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• What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things" (using the phrase without metaphysical pretensions), especially injustices and exploitative practices.

  Richard A. Falk

  Capitalist Economy, Practice, Understanding

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