Generally, much of our uneasiness reflects our exposure to threats that we can only partly control.

However, that hard fought compromise solution might cause uneasiness between the two opposing groups in future, and should not be disregarded at a later stage.

When this new power is a nation of 1.3 billion people living under an alien political system and ideology, its rise is bound to cause even more uneasiness.

In this context, your allusion to the absence of any external enforcement mechanism is not only difficult to understand but it can only raise uneasiness on our part.

So, if paternalism has benefits as well as costs, how do we get the former without the latter? My colleague, Richard Thaler, along with Cass Sunstein, who currently serves in the Obama administration, wrote a best selling book, Nudge, in which they suggest a way to reduce our uneasiness with paternalism.