Moises Naim Quotes

#1. A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness. Without

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#2. The decay of power also is one of the forces driving the profusion of myriad criminal, terrorist, or otherwise malevolent nonstate actors.

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#3. When people are more numerous and living fuller lives, they become more difficult to regiment and control.

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#4. the spread of consumer technology has given the traffickers a boost and helped them keep the edge over their pursuers.

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#5. For if nature abhors a vacuum, and greed is part of human nature, then greed too abhors a vacuum.

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#6. Specifically it is about how power - the capacity to get others to do, or to stop doing, something - is undergoing a historic and world-changing transformation.

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#7. He believes the world has entered "an era of perpetual irregular warfare.

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#8. We know that power is shifting from brawn to brains, from north to south and west to east, from old corporate behemoths to agile start-ups, from entrenched dictators to people in town squares and cyberspace.

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#9. Today, we ask not what we can do for our country but what our country, employer, fast-food purveyor, or favorite airline can do for us.

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#10. He who is active in politics strives for power, either as a means in serving other ends, ideal or egoistic, or as 'power for power's sake,' that is, in order to enjoy the prestige-feeling that power gives.

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#11. during transitions to democracy, nations often undergo political convulsions that make them hard to govern, thus feeding nostalgia for their old authoritarian order.

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#12. conversations each year with fellow participants confirmed my hunch: the powerful are experiencing increasingly greater limits on their power. The reactions to my probing always pointed in the same direction: power is becoming more feeble, transient, and constrained.

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#13. The decay of power is changing the world.

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#14. In many Latin American countries, the historic ties of Catholic bishops with the political elite rendered them less sensitive to the conditions of the poor and especially of indigenous people.

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#15. the world market for cheap labor exceeds even the market for cheap sex.

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#16. The gap between our real power and what people expect from us is the source of the most difficult pressure any head of state has to manage.

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#17. New information technologies are tools - and to have an impact, tools need users, who in turn need goals, direction, and motivation.

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#18. Power has a social function.

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#19. the decay of power has significantly altered the terms of global conflict.

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#20. It's virtually an axiom that teamwork across divisions of a ministry or police force is complicated by rivalries, turf battles, and competing personal and institutional interests.

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#21. Power is spreading, and long-established, big players are increasingly being challenged by newer and smaller ones. And those who have power are more constrained in the ways they can use it.

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#22. power is easier to obtain and harder to use or even to keep.

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#23. Power is the ability to direct or privent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals.

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