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Even without such a bargain, however, Iran will have to do certain things if it wants to be seen as a constructive regional player.
Only war's bloodshed, sad to say, can seal such a diplomatic bargain.
It now seems clear that if we want a non-proliferation treaty with more teeth – for example, tougher monitoring and surveillance – countries with nuclear weapons will have to honor what others believe is their side of an unfair bargain.
But the existing nuclear weapons states also must be mindful of the moral conditions that underlie the NPT bargain.
Such reforms require a grand bargain between America’s political parties, which in turn presupposes visionary leadership by both of them.
(No one mentions in this bargain, that the United States has already spent billions to secure ouitsr borders and nonetheless some 500,000 illegal immigrants a year continue to come, but that’s another story.)
In seeking a Faustian bargain with the Taliban, Obama risks repeating US policy mistakes that now haunt regional and international security.
But the main concern centers around the Treasury’s apparent intention to pay more than double the current market price (20-30 cents on the dollar) on the premise that its success in untangling the mortgage market would make any discount seem like a bargain.
Indeed, while the Arab Spring ended the old corrupt bargain that kept so many autocratic rulers in power across the Muslim world, Zardari and his associates appear not to have received the message.
Thanks largely to its early awareness of the need to address climate change, the insurance industry’s Faustian bargain has so far avoided scrutiny from pressure groups.
Crucially, but inevitably, they did not agree when, or under what circumstances, Blair would fulfil his side of the bargain.
That is not what he planned when he struck his bargain with Blair back in 1994.
As Human Rights Watch reported, "In a system replete with all the appearance of legality and due process, workers' exercise of rights to organize, to bargain, and to strike...has been frustrated by many employers who realize they have little to fear from labor law enforcement."
To save it, I believe, requires a kind of “Grand Bargain” approach, rather than incremental steps, with Germany agreeing, effectively, to some form of mutualization of debt, while the debtor countries carry out profound structural reforms, and the ECB stands fully behind the bargain.
Europe has a real chance to conclude a bargain: member countries implement fiscal and structural reforms in exchange for short-run relaxation of fiscal constraints – not to increase liabilities, but to focus on growth-oriented investments to jump-start sustained recovery.
Such transfers of wealth might be justified as a one-time historic bargain, in which young and old share the burden of transition.
That bargain, however, looks permanent as these promises have become open-ended.
On the top chessboard, military power is largely unipolar, but on the economic board, the US is not a hegemon or an empire, and it must bargain as an equal when, for example, Europe acts in a unified way.
The Chinese, for example, are already driving a hard bargain; the knowledge that Russia has no other option would give them even more leverage in negotiations.
For starters, Europe’s periphery is demoralized, and in some cases ready to lunge at any Faustian bargain that’s offered.
In the integration process, governments believe they know what they are doing, they believe they have discrete choices, they believe they can broadly predict the consequences of the bargain being offered, and if they step forward, it is because they believe the bargain will be advantageous.
In that case, it has forged a Faustian social bargain that is typical of East Asian autocracies.
But if China and the US reach a grand bargain on a package of policy changes that would reduce or eliminate distortions on both sides, domestic resistance may be easier to overcome.
Such cooperation could be extended to help reach a bargain on WTO reforms that would further support fairness in the global system.
These investments are an incredible bargain.
In particular, there is a gnawing fear that the US may yet choose the “G-2” option: a grand bargain with China for the two countries to decide Asia’s fate by themselves and over our heads.
For Chinese strategic realists, any support for America’s efforts to help end the Afghan insurgency should be part of a broader China-US bargain.
Even if MENA governments wanted to uphold their end of the bargain, they could not.
Indeed, striking such a bargain would have nothing to do with realpolitik, because the war in Syria cannot be ended with either ISIS or Assad still in the picture.
This is a bargain that the Iranians themselves have repeatedly hinted at.
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