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The US will face a trifecta of new fiscal hurdles – lack of legal authority to pay debt, no operating budget for the federal government, and the dreaded prospect of sequestration – before the end of March.
Meanwhile, the European Union’s declining cohesion is undermining its moral authority on the world stage.
In America, this new protectionist/social policy pact scored a big victory recently in derailing President Clinton’s request for so-called "fast-track" negotiating authority from Congress, which he intended to use in order to bring Chile into the North American Free Trade zone (NAFTA).
But, for many Italians, the French political system’s most attractive feature is that the president is the true head of the executive – and, since the presidential and legislative terms were aligned in 2000, that authority has run for five years at a time.
That federal law, enacted in June 2016, also established an Oversight Board with fiscal decision-making authority for the US commonwealth.
Clarity of purpose and deftness of style give Fischer considerable authority in Schroder's cabinet.
This is not to say that European institutions did not need more authority than they had before the crisis.
Likewise, the ECB, together with national bodies, has gained the authority to supervise major eurozone banks.
As Burma’s authorities test reform, these gifts, together with her negotiating skills and, most of all, her vast moral authority, will be tested as never before.
Trump has consistently denigrated press coverage that is critical of his administration as “fake news,” just as he has sought to undermine the authority of the independent judiciary by branding those who disoblige him as “so-called” judges.
Finally, a supervisory authority must be established to monitor governments’ progress toward achieving sustainable debt levels – and to create clear consequences for those that break the eurozone’s budgetary rules.
But only profound reforms of traditional authority can pave the way towards freedom and growth.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has labeled it a “radicalizer,” because it “destroys faith in legitimate authority.”
Ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – and the resulting changes in Chinese laws and practice – would help to secure social and political stability in China, boost dialogue between China and the EU, and increase China’s moral authority.
There will be times when America will engage its power and authority.
In doing so, China’s regulatory authority changed many well-established rules of the game virtually overnight.
To protect the Fed’s independence, which is a global public good of the highest importance, he should cut back the Fed’s authority to its core role.
Governments should also work to improve tax compliance and reduce evasion, which requires limiting tax officials’ discretionary authority.
Anyone who has been watching Xi over the last two and a half years could discern his goal of consolidating Communist Party rule in China by strengthening his personal authority, reinvigorating domestic repression, and pursuing an assertive foreign policy.
While Xi will work to build a strong power base by gradually appointing his supporters to key positions, he needs the PLA to defend his political authority in the interim.
But Xi’s plans extend beyond his personal authority – and so do the lessons of the Soviet Union.
The final pillar of Xi’s strategy for solidifying the Communist Party’s authority is to replace Deng Xiaoping’s cautious foreign policy with a muscular one.
First, in the absence of a single global central-banking authority, a modicum of monetary-policy coordination among major economies is required.
This abuse of scientific authority is especially widespread in the “organic” and “natural” food industries, which capitalize on people’s fear of synthetic or “unnatural” products.
Another promising initiative – the “optional protocol on communications,” aimed at enabling children and their advocates, for the first time, to bring cases before the UN Human Rights Committee – has been similarly weakened by a lack of strong support, authority, and resources.
Of course, translating courage into positive change requires muscle – the influence and authority to take action – which requires an astute understanding of political realities.
In response to one development expert’s heartfelt despair that unfair trade treaties and unfulfilled promises of aid have cost the developed countries their moral authority, he retorted: “The West never had any moral authority.”
In some sense, money is an arbitrary social construct; but its value and ability to serve crucial economic functions are rooted in the authority and institutions of the currency-issuing state.
They use their given role as a badge of moral authority, taking their voices and their truth out of the home and into the streets to fight not for abstract concepts of justice, but for sons and daughters with names and histories.
When the next generation takes over, all of the Politburo Standing Committee members will be vested with almost equal political authority, resulting in more power-sharing and high-level checks and balances.
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