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In their book Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson argue that societies with political arrangements that concentrate power in the hands of a few seldom excel at innovation and growth, because innovators have no guarantee they will keep the fruits of their labors.
And, to the extent that outsiders cannot generate wealth, they have few resources with which to challenge the power of insiders; as a result, exclusionary political arrangements are mostly self-sustaining.
But do not misjudge us: the negotiations are about the arrangements, not about the final outcome.
Consideration also needs to be given, therefore, to the establishment of a NATO-China Council, along the lines of the NATO-Russia Council, and to the creation of arrangements that would facilitate greater cooperation with the SCO as a whole.
Alternatively, citizens could try to lead efforts to re-negotiate their countries’ constitutional arrangements.
Without knowing what specific regional arrangements would follow Brexit, the pro-EU camp cannot make a decisive economic and financial case for remaining.
The consequences extended beyond economics and finance, straining regional political arrangements, amplifying national political dysfunction, and fueling the rise of anti-establishment parties and movements.
The European Union’s legitimacy deficit derives from the popular suspicion that its institutional arrangements have veered too far from the former to the latter.
To make us choose what is good for us, they avoid fines, compulsion, and prohibition in favor of “nudges” – institutional arrangements that we could, in principle, easily override, but that, given our tendency to rely on System I, we end up going along with.
Instead of distorting their economies to qualify for second-class EU membership, perhaps they would be better off sheltering under Nato's umbrella and relying on global trading arrangements to seek their fortunes beyond Europe's shores.
With the trading arrangements of the European common market increasingly subsumed by the globalisation of free trade and agriculture under the World Trade Organisation, and with American dominance of Nato providing the only meaningful security guarantee, and with English now irrevocably established as the world's lingua franca, a clear alternative is emerging for the peripheral European countries, both rich and poor.
Syria has many minorities whose numbers are too small to secure representation through the ballot box, and thus need to be protected by other means, such as political arrangements and institutions aimed explicitly at guaranteeing minority rights.
European leaders should recognize their own mistakes and acknowledge the democratic deficit in the current institutional arrangements.
But it seems that existing arrangements are no longer adequate.
Indeed, one might legitimately question whether we have a “system” at all, at least compared to the Bretton Woods arrangements and, before that, the seeming simplicity of the gold standard.
Such arrangements, which should be described as government-sponsored commercialism, are considered unacceptable by all relevant international declarations.
Aside from the usual efficiency arguments, it is just going to become increasingly difficult and costly to maintain complex and idiosyncratic national tax arrangements.
But the decisions that Scotland would have to make about its monetary arrangements in the months following a vote for independence are at least as likely to be confronted by some eurozone countries over the next couple of years.
One may infer that such informal arrangements survive in real-world employment relationships because they reinforce our heartfelt feelings of good will toward each other.
Globalization’s cheerleaders do considerable damage to their cause by framing the issue as a stark choice between existing trade arrangements and the persistence of global poverty.
Given the lack of political will to make progress on this front, however, it may be sensible to begin by focusing on national-level solutions that, if successful, could pave the way for eurozone-level arrangements.
As large-scale regional free-trade arrangements take shape, the EU continues to signal unequivocal commitment to free trade through sophisticated bilateral agreements.
But, given the Asia-Pacific region’s high trade volumes, and its dense set of trading arrangements running in every direction, no one, including China, is about to be isolated.
The loss of settled EU arrangements would be balanced by the chance for Britain to rediscover its own way, not least in fiscal and industrial policy.
With existing international arrangements remaining virtually static since the mid-twentieth century (even as non-Western economic powers and nontraditional challenges have emerged), the world needs more than the halfhearted and desultory steps taken thus far.
The Korean people have a historical right to determine their peninsula’s future arrangements, including unification should they so choose.
Such arrangements will often be ad hoc and flexible, rather than traditional binding deals, and will almost never be comprehensive.
If established international organizations are no longer sufficiently trusted to carry out this function, the US and Europe may well need new domestic arrangements.
What is unique, and particularly far-reaching, is the precedent Brexit sets for other countries (or regions) to “exit” from their respective political and economic arrangements – whether it is Scotland and Northern Ireland in the UK, or Catalonia in Spain.
The UK’s trade, finance, and immigration arrangements are far too complex and entrenched to be renegotiated quickly.
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