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China’s engagement in Africa can help to reduce that number, but only if African countries work to manage their relationships with China strategically, protecting their own interests as they create mutually beneficial arrangements with the Asian giant.
Across Europe and in America, new arrangements have been set up to pool information about possible terrorist attacks and take the speedy (and sometimes robust) action needed to prevent or disrupt them.
While we value continuing remnants of our Anglo past – including Britain’s participation in the Five Eyes group, and our Five Power Defense Arrangements with Malaysia, Singapore, the UK, and New Zealand – the truth of the matter is that the UK has brought nothing of significance to the region’s defense since the fall of Singapore in 1942.
If we merely add new institutions to EU countries’ already Byzantine arrangements, we will fail to address the effectiveness, flexibility, and smoothness of information transfer through the EU-level supervisory system.
Internationally, Europe likes multilateral arrangements, whereas America prefers to go it alone.
Greece must dismantle corporatist arrangements and practices that obstruct whatever innovation and entrepreneurship might emerge.
As a result of these lavish arrangements, companies drilling for shale gas can turn a profit without providing the promised economic benefits.
Of course, while complicated financial arrangements allow us to move forward economically, they also can create hazards.
The peaceful coexistence between the country's myriad ethnic, religious, and tribal groups is the result of a complex layer of concessions, compromises, tacit agreements, and other pragmatic arrangements perfected over the centuries.
Likewise, restrictions and ambiguities continue to plague the institutional arrangements sought by the framers of the country’s political and electoral reforms.
Moreover, a growing number of arrangements are being introduced with little or no built-in enforcement.
It should accept the concerns of its neighbors, seek to develop its own ideas for regional confidence- and security building, and participate in efforts to create regional security arrangements.
Articles 3 and 8 of Jordan’s peace treaty with Israel refer explicitly to the refugee problem as one of the major issues still to be resolved, as well as citing the unresolved status of trans-border arrangements and of Jerusalem.
The recognition by the three parties of the primacy of the moral and spiritual over the political importance of the city could lead to arrangements on the ground which satisfy the legitimate claims of the three Abrahamic faiths, and subsume the eventual political status of the city to this moral authority.
What worries me now is that these kinds of political arrangements need war both to catalyse them, and to drive them forward.
Europe sometimes seems more concerned about is own institutional arrangements and internal affairs than about its global responsibilities.
Today, however, emerging countries increasingly prefer to “self-insure” by accumulating reserves (and sharing them through regional pooling arrangements).
Moreover, Europe’s malaise threatens many of these countries’ political stability as well, given the close connection – especially in China – between the legitimacy of existing arrangements and the continuation of rapid economic growth.
But the problem is one of political psychology, not institutional arrangements.
Such arrangements protect the investor from an unstable business environment, but they can also cut investors off from indigenous businesses; and when SEZs offer investors special tax breaks, the country is deprived of potential revenues.
As with the outdated governance arrangements, conceptions of development that informed the existing multilateral institutions’ mandates are markedly different from modern development thinking.
China has nearly two dozen currency-swap arrangements, which serve as an alternative to IMF liquidity support.
Over time, these arrangements will erode the US dollar’s role as the world’s leading reserve currency.
Europe should instead push for new constitutional and institutional solutions that ensure the Shia a legitimate role in the political arrangements of Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states – all places where they now regard themselves as third-class citizens.
Such distorted priorities reflect a simple reality: democracy in Latin America seems incapable of dismantling old networks of clienteles and their traditional power-sharing arrangements.
He foresaw what now seems obvious: the imposition of artificial arrangements in the Middle East would only engender conflict.
There are many ways to legitimize political arrangements.
In principle, a web of bilateral transfer arrangements could achieve such an unblocking of trade.
It is hard, at least for me, to envision alternative political arrangements or economic policies over the past fifty years that would have transferred any significant portion of the wealth of today’s rich nations to today’s poor nations.
But I don’t see what alternative political-economic arrangements could make individuals’ relative wealth closely correspond to their relative moral or other merit.
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