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A key question for the next decade, therefore, is whether the Chinese authorities’ growth targets will be enough to preserve social cohesion as further economic and political reforms are gradually implemented.
According to the Turkish authorities, two teams, totaling 15 people, flew from Riyadh to Istanbul on the day of Khashoggi’s appointment and left within hours.
True, economic growth in China is slowing somewhat as authorities belatedly try to contain a credit bubble, but many other emerging markets – notably including India – are set to grow faster this year.
That seems to be why, after having declared the euro crisis over in the rest of Europe, the authorities seem determined to declare final victory on the Greek front, too.
According to the authorities’ propaganda, Greece’s creditors are linking debt repayments to growth.
The public authorities have slightly different concerns.
And, with both surges of protest, the Kremlin authorities have been put on notice.
Somewhat unexpectedly, the Russian authorities, who have forced ever-obedient Russians to move for centuries – from villages to cities, back to villages, to gulags, to khrushchevki – have rushed to provide further guarantees to the khrushchevki’s tenants.
But Serbia’s authorities, facing economic turmoil, cannot harbor him much longer if the United States and the European Union exert adequate pressure.
Only when more parents, teachers, and community leaders behave likewise will recruitment of terrorists dry up and law-enforcement authorities receive full cooperation from the populations they police.
Of course, security authorities need suitable tools to fight terrorism.
As terrorists take advantage of new technologies, the legal and technical means used by security authorities must adapt accordingly.
But terrorism cannot be fought by the security authorities alone.
Security authorities are responsible for monitoring the more visible signs of radicalization, and other state agencies can help potential terrorism recruits to leave extremist environments and become reintegrated into society.
We need Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Maghreb countries as partners in the fight against Islamist terrorism, and that means improved operational cooperation between security authorities.
We need to establish an extended dialogue with Muslim countries, particularly those from which immigrants come, and convince them to accept that their own Islamic authorities have a special responsibility in fighting radicalization.
But, despite the large protests in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and other cities, the authorities rejected demonstrators’ demands to nullify the election results.
Indeed, steps by the authorities to mollify public opinion will continue to be accompanied by increased pressure on the opposition and on civil-society organizations.
Under the Russian system, most taxes are centrally collected, so governors need good relations with federal authorities so as to maintain access to the ever-shrinking federal pie.
The authorities are hoping for foreign direct investment of $600 billion in the coming five years, and expect Chinese outward direct investment to reach $750 billion five years later.
Two years into the crisis, the authorities have correctly identified four crucial problems – sovereign debt, bank capital, the risk of a Greek default, and deficient growth.
For example, the authorities have built up the micro-financing industry to grant credit to the poor and under-banked population.
The authorities have started to use all of the levers at their disposal to increase competitiveness and unleash the potential of Egypt’s people.
Likewise, the European Union’s antitrust authorities have been tougher with Microsoft than with many European firms.
Nor are they likely to have the right kind of information to trade with authorities in exchange for a lighter sentence.
In much of Central Asia, a drug-dependent person has to register with authorities to receive treatment, which automatically puts women at risk of losing their children.
First, it emphasizes the government’s commitment to “respect and protect human rights,” prohibiting law-enforcement authorities from extracting confessions “by torture, corporal punishment, or abuse” and abolishing widely criticized programs for “re-education through the labor system.”
I think that when the authorities conceive such strategies, they assume that the outcome will be manageable.
Moreover, the Algerian authorities have actively promoted Sufism as an antidote to the Salafi fundamentalism that has fueled violent clashes between government forces and Islamist rebels.
And the SPI is being used not just at the national level, but by regional and municipal authorities as well.
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