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In this progressive transformation of the international system, German and European foreign policy will play an active role.
Europe now, more than ever, needs to take an active part in managing the world economy.
This means shifting the focus from backward-looking labor-market policies, which seek to protect workers in existing jobs, to future-oriented measures, such as innovative insurance mechanisms and active labor-market policies.
Private entities flourish, and a very active stock market allows widespread share ownership.
It ignores what were long regarded as the most essential aims of education: strengthening students’ moral character and preparing them to be active, informed citizens.
Japan finally has a government, led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, that is committed to ending deflation and reinvigorating economic growth, using a combination of expansionary monetary policy, active fiscal policy, and deregulation.
Both have also been active, if reluctant, participants in European integration.
But wouldn’t it make more sense for the bulk of faculty teaching time to be devoted to helping students engage in active learning through discussion and exercises, rather than to sometimes hundredth-best lecture performances?
Four factors, none of them new but each destabilizing on its own, are compounding one another: lack of hope, dangerous governmental policies, a regional power vacuum, and the absence of active external mediation.
Domestic issues are likely to preoccupy Obama and his team at least up until the mid-term elections this November, thus precluding active diplomacy during the critical months ahead.
There has not been much active crisis-prevention diplomacy from Brussels or from Europe’s national capitals.
Sometimes they are resolved through active diplomatic intervention by regional or international players.
But the question of how to manage cases against active government leaders remains unsettled in international law.
If municipal authorities – which have proved their willingness and ability to tackle the nuts and bolts of integration in innovative ways – were empowered to play a more active role in crafting immigration policies, everyone would benefit.
In the unlikely event that circumstances change, Obama could step in as an active peacemaker, giving his trip to Israel historic significance as a turning point in Israel-Palestine relations.
A further reason for Einstein’s fame is that he was active in many areas far afield from physics, notably politics and religion, including Zionism.
In all these areas, the IMF should make more active use of regional institutions.
Middle Eastern SWFs, as owners of full and partial SOEs, are often active shareholders – and sometimes even manage companies directly, side-stepping boards in the name of greater decision-making efficiency.
As financial investors, SWFs are not active; many do not even vote their shares.
They also require much more active management of, and communication about, a company’s unused intellectual property (IP).
At the nanometer scale (about 50,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair), matter behaves in unusual ways: weak materials become strong, inert materials become active, and benign materials become harmful.
In the decade since the global financial crisis, advanced-country central banks have adopted unprecedentedly active monetary policies.
It is an active participant in multilateral institutions such as the International Commission and World Congress Against the Death Penalty, and it has been mobilizing support within the UN for a global moratorium on executions.
China’s active courtship of countries that violate human rights on a massive scale, such as Sudan, North Korea, and Burma, similarly represents a preliminary decapitation of the international human rights regime.
The emergence of anti-establishment and non-traditional political parties and candidates on both sides of the Atlantic is complicating even the most basic elements of economic governance, such as enactment of an active budget in the United States.
Every other G-7 country, and 28 of the other 33 OECD members, have “territorial" tax systems, which allow globally engaged companies to repatriate most of their active foreign earnings without paying a significant additional domestic tax.
So a new phase in international environmental cooperation is needed, with China’s active contribution.
Back in the early 1980’s, financial engineers invented “portfolio insurance,” a fancy active hedging strategy for controlling downside risk.
Writing with colleague Robert Kagan in the July/August issue of the leading US foreign policy journal Foreign Affairs, Kristol not only welcomes the return to active US international involvement, he dismisses what has been done so far as based not on a strategic vision but merely on "a tepid consensus."
Upon entry, they will become members of the European Central Bank, which means that the new members are expected to take active steps towards fulfilling the necessary conditions for future admission into the eurozone.
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