Washington has tended to see Nato over recent years as an adjunct to its own global policing activities.

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The committee, which is responding to ever-louder calls for global financial policing, hopes that a final version will be ready next year.

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In the last year, Etsy, by far the largest global online crafts retailer, almost doubled the size of its policing staff to 16 people.

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With an economy in the pan, and global commodity prices at historic highs (not to mention the political problems of policing an oil-dependent world) natural resource discovery is an inviting systemic innovation.

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Unless developing countries start taking their responsibility for global security seriously, Americans and Europeans may begin to wonder why they are policing the world to keep markets open for others to get rich.

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