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There could be no alternative to free markets and the neoliberal Washington Consensus – or so it appeared.
Once it was decided last year, with Chirac's complete agreement, to launch air strikes against military targets near the Bosnian Serb capital of Pale, there was no alternative to NATO's involvement in Bosnia and therefore to French cooperation with NATO's political and military organs.
A majority AKP government, investors apparently believed, would be much better than the likely alternative: a period of political uncertainty, followed by a weak and indecisive coalition or minority administration.
If, on the other hand, as is its right, Chinese leaders have an alternative vision of what an improved international system might look like, the onus is on them to articulate that vision and outline what they are willing to do to realize it.
But if China’s leaders will neither do more to support the current international system, nor articulate an alternative, and instead continue to hark back to nineteenth-century models of inviolable sovereignty, they will destroy a global order that, warts and all, has served the world exceedingly well.
Since 1999, the MDC has offered a democratic alternative to President Robert Mugabe’s regime.
As I argued in my 2007 book Cool It, the most rational response to global warming is to make alternative energy technologies so cheap that the whole world can afford them.
In an environment of extremely low interest rates and frothy equity markets, infrastructure also looks like an attractive and reasonably safe alternative to stocks and bonds, yielding returns that can ultimately finance the pensions of the West’s aging societies.
With investigations and prosecutions ongoing, many outsiders have adopted a wait-and-see attitude, while they weigh acquiring existing assets from corporate liquidations as an alternative to green-field investment.
The good news is that the ideas already exist to provide a progressive alternative to 1960s-vintage Corbynismo.
A third alternative is democracy, but with secular restrictions on religious parties.
So, in my view, true democracy is the only alternative, because it is realistic and promotes peace.
The alternative is to accept the deterioration of the quality of public services, which would lead only to a loss of government legitimacy and, with it, a diminishing willingness to pay taxes.
There are moments when unwillingness to use force is immoral, and moments when the measured use -- or threat of use -- of force may be the only moral alternative.
An alternative way to provide stimulus is via ultra-easy monetary policies – sustained low interest rates or unconventional measures such as quantitative easing.
Absent alternative options, ultra-easy monetary policy has helped to mitigate the depth of the post-crisis recession.
And yet it is not clear that White, sharing my concerns about the impact of funded fiscal deficits or of ultra-easy monetary policy, has convincing alternative proposals that could return us to shore.
An alternative approach might be to use a one-off dose of OMF to finance a significant bank recapitalization, shifting as rapidly as possible to a new, more stable financial regime.
But we should at least debate the issue, and face clearly the limitations and potential adverse side effects of alternative policies.
The alternative to thinking about European integration simply as a way of generating wealth and prosperity frequently analogizes it to a marriage.
Well, it depends on what one thinks the alternative is.
That, in turn, strengthened its two-fold belief – that its brand of state-steered capitalism offers a credible alternative, and that its global ascendance is inevitable.
But there is nothing to stop negative real interest rates, since routine investors may have no alternative risk-free instrument that offers a positive real return.
Whenever the dollar was weak, capital surged into alternative currencies, notably the Japanese yen and the German Mark.
Then there is a more radical alternative.
The crucial moment occurs when the "other's" differences can be perceived not as error, or as a fault, or as the product of a lesser, undeveloped version of what we are, but as the challenge posed by a viable human alternative.
The initiative that I propose would offer a positive alternative, based on solidarity – the solidarity of Europeans with Greeks and of Greeks with migrants.
Because low-income countries rarely have enough money to implement needed education reforms, pooling public and private resources is an attractive alternative.
His alternative appears to be to abandon the euro.
Violations of children’s rights are now so rampant that there simply is no alternative.
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