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In such a technocratic discussion, it is easy to forget that what economists call “labor-market rigidities” are in fact a crucial component of the social bargain in advanced capitalist economies.
The ingredients for such a grand bargain are fairly clear.
And EU officials would most likely drive a hard bargain indeed, in order to deter other countries from contemplating exits of their own.
Now, Europe is suffering the consequences of that Faustian bargain.
Because their preferences and circumstances don’t in fact shift from day to day, and because they do try to get the best bargain when they shop around, their behavior will exhibit a high degree of regularity.
What is needed now is a grand bargain to link economics and the big security issues of a world that is being upended by the likes of Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump.
He cannot be sure that they will not repudiate the heart of the Franco-German bargain.
So, as insurance and in advance, he must seal the Franco-German bargain with a deal on a set of parallel political initiatives for European integration.
Specifically, it will require a multidimensional bargain: between the US and Russia; among Gulf states, especially Saudi Arabia and Iran; and between the Syrian opposition and supporters of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Instead, the EU, the ECB, and Ireland have reached a Faustian bargain that keeps Ireland liquid (i.e., it gets euros), but does nothing to halt the growing likelihood of insolvency (i.e., its increasing inability to pay back those euros in the future).
The IMF, which should be standing up to this dangerous bargain, instead plans to open the spigots (with Chinese, American, and other countries’ funds) even more widely to insolvent nations.
While international cooperation on regulatory reform is difficult to achieve on a piecemeal basis, it may be attainable in a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order.
One can imagine a grand bargain in Europe, with expansionary macroeconomic policies coupled with the easing of microeconomic impediments.
Only a major global bargain between the West and the rest will suffice.
Democratic governments make a bargain with their people, gaining their long-run legitimacy from their ability to deliver rising living standards and high employment.
For example, while the US should never bargain with the Chinese over America’s defense obligations to South Korea, it could engage the Chinese on some assurances that no US forces would ever be stationed above the 38th parallel.
In talks with the opposition, the monarchy will find seasoned politicians ready to bargain over long-held demands.
But the author of the 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal would surely agree that sound preparation is the essence of striking a good bargain.
Multiculturalists are reluctant to endorse this part of the cosmopolitan bargain, but liberals must.
An instructive example of the cosmopolitanism bargain came in 2006, when Great Britain’s former foreign minister, Jack Straw, raised concerns about the nijab, the full-head covering worn by some Muslim women.
More than any Iranian president since 1979, Rouhani can deliver his part of the bargain – that is, if and when a bargain is struck.
Specifically, they must devise a grand bargain for peace that addresses the fundamental questions relating to global security norms and arms control that have so far impeded such cooperation.
Any realistic grand bargain would have to account for this.
We have written a memo that spells out some of the essential elements of what a grand bargain for peace in Sudan could look like.
Together, the allies can improve global prospects for nuclear nonproliferation, but only if they hammer out a grand bargain that accounts for South Korea’s current – and future – security concerns.
But, though Bachelet’s coalition has a clear majority in Congress, supermajority requirements will force her to bargain with the right-wing opposition to pass her reforms.
France, on the other hand, has been the beneficiary of this discrimination — yet it bashes the euro and votes No into the bargain.
Equally significant, China has lost the battle in the arena of public opinion – chastised by Western policymakers, a few high-profile academics, and others for having failed to live up to the grand bargain struck in 2001, when the country was admitted to the World Trade Organization.
European integration cannot continue without a grand bargain between the two groups.
For a grand bargain with the US, Iran needs to end its support for militant organizations like Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad which undermine efforts at reaching a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.
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