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The worst-case scenario for Europe is a US administration that pursues policies – for example, active support for right-wing populists – aimed at bringing about the disintegration of the EU.
But, like Russia, China has been far more active using other forms of influence over the last decade.
First, it must become more comfortable playing an active and constructive international role.
Ramiro Abreu, who “ran” El Salvador for Cuba’s Department of the Americas in the 1980’s and 1990’s, remains active, but now more as a businessman and a senior statesman than as a Cuban operative.
The UNDP’s primary research into extremists’ personal motivations – based on more than 350 interviews with formerly active violent extremists in prisons and transitional centers in Cameroon, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, and Uganda – is the most extensive project of its kind in Africa, if not globally.
Moreover, a major part of the socialist legacy in both countries is the cumulative effect of the state’s active role in technological development.
Mbeki, like Mandela, was active in the struggle against apartheid.
Firms need more flexibility to adjust their payrolls in adverse economic conditions; and workers need more security, provided by better training and active labor-market policies.
And in South Africa, Marlon Parker, founder of the social innovation academy and incubator RLabs, created a virtual currency called Zlato to encourage active participation in skills-training workshops.
Since its inception in 2008, RLabs has created tens of thousands of jobs and is now active in 24 countries.
This would have the advantage of developing an active Eurobond market.
An active Russian civil society, which seemed to appear out of nowhere in Mikhail Gorbachev’s Soviet Union of 1989-1990 after the long Soviet hibernation, receded far too quickly.
But with this openness comes vulnerability, which explains Kim’s active diplomatic efforts to prevent serious economic disruption from the existing international sanctions regime.
Unlike his father, the 34-year-old Kim has been active in pursuing pro-market economic growth and may be aiming to emulate Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China’s reforms in the late 1970s.
Arabs have a lower preference for democracy (with a gap of 11%), are less civically active (a gap of 8%), respect authority more (by 11%), and embrace patriarchal values much more strongly (by a whopping 30%).
Over the course of the last year, Germany debated whether it should take on a more active international role, but the German public is adjusting only gradually to new expectations.
A significant majority of Germans remain skeptical of adopting a more active global stance, suggesting that any effort to assume an international leadership role remains an uphill battle.
And the share of active workers with a university education remains at levels barely comparable with other advanced economies.
The other, a monetary union with a proper central bank, internal fiscal transfers, and active, regionally-oriented monetary policy, will lead to a slow but steady recovery without default.
The passivity that mass media encourages is the polar opposite of the active engagement that democratic citizens need.
America’s Late Imperial DilemmaNEW YORK – US President Barack Obama is under attack – from so-called liberal hawks, more or less to the left of center, as well as from active interventionists on the right – for being a weak president, leading a war-weary (even world-weary) America in retreat.
Active policies to promote new start-ups and local companies’ expansion through credit, training, and technical support are imperative.
Mill thought that there is a big minority of people who tend to seek higher pleasures and that to be active in democratic politics is one of such pleasure.
The key to enforcing this accountability is active citizenship.
Taught in schools around the world, from Canada to the United Kingdom, active citizenship means political participation at every level.
The ethos of active citizenship applies in every sphere.
Avoiding active discussion, in an effort not to have to confront the more nuanced ethical implications that might emerge, is no less disingenuous.
Being an active and engaged citizen means being authentic and empathetic.
The reason is simple: active citizenship means standing up – or kneeling down – for what we believe in, whether it be a government free of corruption or law enforcement free of racism.
We do not yet know which version will prevail, and there is active discussion about how to ensure that the new standards and systems enhance stability, rather than (as with some previous financial innovations) producing unpleasant unintended consequences.
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