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America’s dollar liabilities could reach a tipping point at any time, if skittish investors, seeking an alternative store of value, precipitate an irreversible downward spiral.
China, for its part, has made no secret of its intention to establish the renminbi as a credible alternative to the dollar.
Lacking any serious alternative to the despised political and economic program of the center and the left, right-wing politicians appear consigned to agitating on such divisive issues as pornography, divorce, and, of course, abortion.
Instead, successful political systems have had to create an alternative invisible hand – a system that decentralizes the power to identify problems, propose solutions, and monitor performance, such that decisions are made with much more information.
Israel’s unwritten alliance with the United States is a more convenient alternative.
The only sound answer is: because there is no truly rational alternative.
The damage has been particularly pronounced in Russia, where anti-terror regulations have often been used as a tool to muffle the voices of those who offer independent or alternative views, particularly views that are critical of President Vladimir Putin’s government.
Indeed, people in jihadist-controlled areas are deeply unhappy with Al Qaeda thugs terrorizing them and trying to enforce their version of Islamic mores – so much so that the Assad regime increasingly appears to be a better alternative to continued warfare or an Al Qaeda takeover.
To meet these challenges successfully, there is no viable alternative to a positive, continuous, and frank engagement between China and the rest of the world.
An alternative hypothesis, which seems to fit the facts, recently emerged from the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Dysfunctionality in Capital Markets, at the London School of Economics.
Poppy production is soaring, experiments with alternative crops are lagging, and there are not enough forces to provide security for farmers willing to try growing something different.
Do viable alternative development strategies for the Palestinian economy exist?
These considerations raise the prospect of trying to bring about an alternative future: an Iran with a political leadership that is more moderate at home and abroad, and that forgoes developing a nuclear weapon or anything close to it.
The dueling analyses clarified the nature of the data, their limitations, and the difference that alternative methods of processing them made to the results.
But, although South Korea has a lot to teach the UK, relationships with the South Koreas of the world cannot serve as an alternative to EU membership.
It is an idea whose time has come, because there is no longer an alternative path from conflict.
The time has come to consider alternative methods for moving the reforms forward.
The US has supported police states in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Central Asia, because the alternative is thought to be worse.
When these shifts occur, leadership plays a crucial role, by providing citizens with an alternative vision, based on common values, that all stakeholders can support.
Uruguay is expected to approve legislation fully legalizing marijuana in January; the Organization of American States is scheduled to deliver a report to the region’s heads of state at mid-year on alternative drug-enforcement strategies and existing “best practices” in other countries.
This sort of behavior – with activists and big energy companies uniting to applaud anything that suggests a need for increased subsidies to alternative energy – was famously captured by the so-called “bootleggers and Baptists” theory of politics.
The NEGP will cost at least eight times as much as the alternative Yamal II pipeline, which would have gone overland through Poland.
Moreover, India needs Iran as an alternative trade and energy conduit to Central Asia, bypassing rival Pakistan, and also as a hedge against an uncertain future in Afghanistan after America’s withdrawal in 2014.
If there were any assurance that prices would remain permanently above even $40 a barrel, alternative energy sources (including shale oil) would be developed.
As a result, self-censorship chills entire newsrooms, and many noncommercial or alternative media are denied access to the airwaves.
The perversity of the first alternative is obvious: there is no surplus food production in the world.
The remaining alternative is to use land that has not previously been used commercially.
As with many efforts of its kind, the agreement needs to be compared to alternative outcomes, starting with the real possibility of not concluding any deal at all.
Now, however, due to the surge in crude oil prices, even Bush has had to begin to consider alternative energy sources, and it won’t be possible to limit these to nuclear power or ethanol, which is so popular among farmers, a key Bush constituency.
Yet, when governance models are judged solely through the lens of the Washington Consensus, there is very little alternative.
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