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Yet protecting them may merely delay the inevitable, because the longer they are allowed to suck scarce resources out of the economy, the more unaffordable an arms race with the US will become – and the greater the challenge to the CPC’s
authority
will become.
The first step should be to scrap the plan to install a common EU finance minister at the head of an
authority
with autonomous taxation powers.
Democracy, in their view, leads to disorder; freedom of thought causes popular “confusion”; and public criticism of the Party tends toward the breakdown of
authority.
The credit boom of the past decade highlighted the inadequacy of focusing only on prices, and underscored the need for the monetary
authority
of a country (or group of countries in the case of the European Central Bank and the eurozone) to monitor the financial sector.
But the FSA is soon to be replaced by the FPC, resulting in a system that aims to avoid an “underlap” of
authority
that leaves no one in charge.
The
authority
and power of Putin’s regime, too, was (largely) a function of globalization – specifically, the huge surge in oil prices.
In Cameroon, some of our organizations have worked with the World Customs Organization to help the customs
authority
reduce corruption and increase collection of revenues – estimated to be more than $25 million a year.
In Europe, the outgoing head of the European Central Bank recommends more centralized fiscal
authority
in Europe in order to deal with likely defaults by one or more of Greece, Portugal, and Spain.
The country as a whole operated as a loose confederation that, like the European Union today, lacked taxing and other
authority.
But, until Europe and the US find leaders with the
authority
and willingness to repeat a modern version of the deal-making example set by Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison 200 years ago, their debt problems will continue to weaken their national foundations.
North Korean propagandists proclaim Kim Jong-eun “the Young General,” but whether he will exercise the same absolutist
authority
as his father is an open question.
The sect holds the northern political and religious elite in contempt, and does not recognize the
authority
of the Sultan of Sokoto, leader of Nigerian Muslims.
Similarly, a European plan must be accompanied by a global response, under the
authority
of the United Nations and involving its member states.
As soon as these elites gained power, they became unwilling to surrender any of the state
authority
they inherited.
On the contrary, America’s monetary
authority
has all but explicitly recognized a new mandate: promoting global financial stability.
While a secularist coalition, mixing apples and oranges, may have declared war against a broad front of Islamic tendencies, the government, with its moral
authority
among the Muslim majority in Turkey, will be able to isolate the violent fringe and drive it into oblivion.
A far more fundamental question has come into view: can a Palestinian government that draws its
authority
from an agreement with Israel stay in power when it is led by an organization committed to the destruction of Israel?
States certainly have the legal
authority
to adopt policies that are at odds with federal policy.
No one in
authority
in Russia, however, has ever repented for crimes committed against the country’s own people.
For example, Japan’s nuclear regulatory
authority
was not sufficiently independent, and oversight of the plant operator, TEPCO, was weak.
If Europe’s political center is widely perceived to be arbitrary and overweening, its
authority
will be rejected and resisted.
Nye argues that a country’s soft power arises from “its culture (in places where it is attractive to others), its political values (when it lives up to them at home and abroad), and its foreign policies (when they are seen as legitimate and having moral authority.)”
Indeed, both advanced and emerging economies have long balked at the notion of strengthening regional and international institutions by delegating more national
authority
to them.
America is not a Hobbesian Leviathan with absolute
authority
and power.
Europeanization of deposit insurance would also mean that eurozone member states would, if push came to shove, lose any
authority
over banking politics.
A country derives its soft power primarily from three resources: its culture (in places that find it appealing), its political values (when it lives up to them at home and abroad), and its foreign policies (when they are seen as legitimate and having moral authority).
The idea of a “social contract” – which arose during the Enlightenment in orderto address, without resort to divine right, the legitimacy of the state’s
authority
over its citizens – rests on the premise that individuals surrender a certain degree of personal liberty in order to secure peace and prosperity for all.
But no one wanted to contemplate the monumental task of framing a new treaty to establish an institution with the needed
authority.
At the recent European Banking Conference in Frankfurt, there was near-unanimous agreement that a functioning banking union requires a central resolution
authority
(to deal with failing financial institutions) and a mutually guaranteed deposit-protection fund (to boost confidence in weaker banks in the eurozone’s troubled economies).
Ideally, she would be aided by a revised decision-making structure, with a new seat of
authority
able to support the supervisory teams with fast rulings.
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