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The challenges Germany has had to face include Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the conflict in eastern Ukraine, the explosion of Syria, terrorist attacks in Europe, and an unprecedented influx of refugees.
A second explanation is that investors are extrapolating from previous shocks, such as the attacks of September 11, 2001, when policymakers saved the day by backstopping the economy and financial markets with strong monetary and fiscal policy easing.
But if the influence of these so-called siloviki was unbridled, similar attacks would have been launched against other major companies by now.
Back in 1997, many Asians thought that the speculative attacks then being mounted on Asian currencies were unjustified, with Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir leading the charge against speculators.
The Russia-Georgia conflict represents the first significant cyber attacks accompanying armed conflict.
Governments have mainly been concerned about hacker attacks on their own bureaucracy’s information technology infrastructure, but there are social vulnerabilities well beyond government computers.
Cyber attacks may also interfere with financial markets and cause immense economic loss by closing down commercial Web sites.
In 1998, when America complained about seven Moscow Internet addresses involved in the theft of Pentagon and NASA secrets, the Russian government replied that phone numbers from which the attacks originated were inoperative.
Kerr described what he called “supply chain attacks” in which hackers not only steal proprietary information, but go further and insert erroneous data and programs in communications hardware and software – Trojan horses that can be used to bring down systems.
Governments can hope to deter cyber attacks just as they deter nuclear or other armed attacks.
And that becomes much more difficult in a world where governments find it hard to tell where cyber attacks come from, whether from a hostile state or a group of criminals masking as a foreign government.
While an international legal code that defines cyber attacks more clearly, together with cooperation on preventive measures, can help, such arms-control solutions are not likely to be sufficient.
Russia's Incompetent War on TerrorIn response to the recent wave of terrorist attacks, Vladimir Putin has demanded that even more power be vested in him.
Yet even that is uncertain: before Beslan, the response to terrorist attacks in Ingushetia and Chechnya consisted of efforts to form additional traditional military divisions.
But, with concerted international efforts, including by NATO ships, pirate attacks have dropped sharply.
Although the situation remains precarious, for the last eight months pirates off the Horn of Africa have been unsuccessful in their attacks against merchant vessels.
The attacks have been ceaseless and indiscriminate.
Her death would have added just one more individual to the tens of thousands who have already been killed in terrorist attacks across the country.
The recent terrorist attacks in Europe have made the UK even more isolationist, as has the migration crisis.
And repeated attacks could sharply reduce business and consumer confidence and stall Europe’s fragile economic recovery.
At the same time, Osama bin Laden released two audio statements condemning Western and Israeli attacks on Muslims and reiterating the need for violent warfare to liberate occupied Muslim territories from the infidels.
Poetically, he attacks Muslim men’s masculinity and sense of honor for not defending Islam.
Trump has launched aggressive attacks on institutions intended to hold him accountable.
To be sure, part of the current dynamic has to do with the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Attacks on synagogues have taken place for the first time since the Dreyfus Affair at the end of the nineteenth century.
British and American media reports have made comparisons to the Nazi era, with some even referring, in the aftermath of attacks on French synagogues, to a French Kristallnacht.
To be sure, no state can passively accept rocket attacks on its cities.
But the strategy of terror used by the Israeli authorities to deter further attacks or to restore a temporary “quiet” has been costly not only in terms of Palestinian lives lost and Israeli soldiers killed; it has also contributed to the deterioration of the security of Jews around the world.
Conscious of its vulnerability to rocket attacks, Israel knows that needs a defensible state, safe from external aggression.
It is time for Europe to catch up, first by establishing its own special prosecutor to investigate attacks on recent elections, but also by tackling other crimes that arise from the abuse of data.
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