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It would be a bitter travesty to abandon the Kurds to the mercy of the Iraqi or Turkish governments in their time of need.
But, while this might make for a stronger euro – and even a stronger EU – it would carry a huge cost, as it would effectively force members to abandon their democratic ideals.
Not surprisingly, central bankers who are committed to a formal or informal inflation target of about 2% per year are unwilling to abandon their mandates openly and to assert that they are pursuing a high rate of inflation.
Indeed, both Israel and the United States are adamant about excluding Hamas from the Annapolis process unless and until it recognizes Israel’s right to exist, while Hamas will not abandon its identity as a resistance movement merely to join negotiations that seem unlikely to satisfy the Palestinian people’s minimal requirements.
But unanimous approval is likely only when the content of agreements is not controversial – hence the proposal to abandon the rule.
That is why Putin put so much pressure on former President Viktor Yanukovych to abandon an association agreement with the EU.
But giving diplomacy a chance will require Trump to abandon his incendiary rhetoric and maximalist positions, and work constructively with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
This is why the majority of EU member states must never abandon the aim of an “ever closer union.”
Does that mean we should abandon the market economy?
MEDFORD – One hundred years ago this month, US President Woodrow Wilson was agonizing over whether to enter World War I. Just a few months earlier, Wilson had won re-election partly by campaigning on a policy of neutrality, which he was now preparing to abandon, along with the slogan “America first.”
He has all but declared his intention to abandon the nuclear agreement with Iran, signed not only by the US but also by the other four permanent Security Council members (China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom) and Germany.
In the case of North Korea, Trump’s approach is even more reckless, threatening that the US will “totally destroy” the country if it does not agree to abandon its nuclear program.
Some will say that the way for central banks to ensure their independence is to abandon macroprudential and microprudential policies and foreswear unconventional interventions in securities markets.
But others in Europe need to abandon their illusions as well.
Unwilling to abandon its nuclear-weapons program, North Korea faces economic sanctions from the United States, with official aid and membership in institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on hold.
Most important, Venezuela will also have to abandon the ideology of class warfare.
But not only young people need persuading: surveys of engineers who leave manufacturing for other fields indicate that a lack of career paths and slow advancement cause some to abandon the sector.
Yet China’s leaders remain incapable of seeming to abandon the North, no matter how odious its behavior.
As soon as we abandon the fiction that economic agents are Robinson Crusoes, absolute needs turn out to be indistinguishable from relative needs, because the goods that satisfy our needs change.
That is why it is high time for Europeans to abandon their provincialism, launch a common foreign policy worthy of the name, and finally start to invest properly in their future security.
The US must renounce the imperialism of the dollar, and Germany must abandon its dream of a “deutscheuro,” managed as if the other 16 euro members were historical and cultural extensions of the German nation.
The German government’s efforts to crush Greece and force it to abandon the single currency have destabilized the monetary union.
Moreover, for the first time, Colombia’s neighbors seem willing to abandon Latin America’s traditional “hands-off” policy in order to offer assistance.
Unless they abandon asymmetric adjustment (recessionary deflation), which concentrates all of the pain in the periphery, in favor of a more symmetrical approach (austerity and structural reforms on the periphery, combined with eurozone-wide reflation), the monetary union's slow-developing train wreck will accelerate as peripheral countries default and exit.
Most importantly, both developing and developed countries need to abandon inflation targeting.
Nixon did not demand that China’s leaders abandon communism or that Mexico become a competitive democracy, only that they act responsibly and learn to do business with the US.
Perhaps the EU itself will abandon free labor mobility in an attempt to appease the UK.
For example, he might have to abandon his plan to expand the presidency’s powers, which has already provoked strong opposition even within the AKP.
But are Asian governments prepared to abandon their mercantilist paradigm?
The current situation in Northeast Asia does not require any of the three countries to abandon cherished national claims.
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