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In short, the country is becoming a direct security threat to the US.
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, is no reformist like China’s Deng Xiaoping; but his regime is becoming more like China’s every day, owing to the irreversible expansion of market forces.
According to Kirchner’s inner circle, he wanted to avoid becoming a “lame duck” and losing power at the end of a second term in office.
So, in four years, Cristina, may feel the same way, and pass the baton back to Néstor, who in turn will retire in four years to avoid becoming a “lame duck,” and so on.
The West’s Crisis of ConfidenceSTOCKHOLM – In an age defined by US President Donald Trump’s rage, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revisionism, and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s unbridled ambition, the international order is becoming increasingly disorderly, dysfunctional, and even dangerous.
After all, the European Union has avoided becoming a focus of heated contestation precisely because it never got much of a share of what Europeans produced (its budget, at just over 1% of the EU’s GDP, has barely changed in relative terms for the past 40 years).
And, as Robert Jervis argued in Perception and Misperception in International Politics, published during the Cold War, the illusions that we create have an enormous influence on decision-making – even becoming a fundamental cause of conflict.
As lives have gotten longer and lifestyles have changed, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and respiratory ailments have taken hold, becoming far and away the world’s leading causes of death.
And it was evident in the first-quarter data that Chinese consumers are becoming an increasingly important driver of economic growth.
He was beginning to support the idea of Russia becoming a parliamentary, not a presidential, republic and was gaining influence ahead of this year's Duma elections.
The oligarchs would help their own cause by becoming more socially active and spending their money on philanthropical pursuits.
Throughout history, there are countless examples of middle-income countries becoming stuck in that category for decades and/or eventually falling back to low-income status.
By becoming a nuclear power, such regimes can ensure their own survival, promote their local or regional geopolitical interests, and even pursue an expansionist agenda.
And at the same time, the international system is becoming increasingly unstable, with political structures, institutions, and alliances around the world being upended or called into question.
Globalization thus implies that sovereignty is not only becoming weaker in reality, but that it needs to become weaker.
To prevent that from happening, public- and private-sector leaders should focus on building diverse and inclusive organizations, as Tim Cook has done since becoming the CEO of Apple.
They are also becoming aware of the potential of demographic change to make Europe’s next half-century very different from the previous one.
Likewise, extortion is growing in Central America, and illegal mining is a prosperous business in Colombia, with gold becoming the new cocaine – easy to market and with lower risk.
Moreover, ordinary Russians are becoming allergic to liberal democracy, because liberal technocrats have consistently served as window dressing for an illiberal Kremlin regime.
In the United States, President Barack Obama asked Congress for $6.2 billion, including $2.4 billion to reduce the risk of the disease becoming established in America and set up 50 US Ebola treatment centers.
This willingness to seek consensus on what should be a broadly acceptable compromise is usually cited as a strength of American democracy (though, as the recent government shutdown demonstrated, compromise is becoming increasingly elusive).
Another Italian supra-politician, Matteo Renzi, also enjoyed a meteoric political rise, becoming prime minister without ever serving as an MP, holding national office, or building a political coalition.
Indian cities such as Bangalore, Chennai (formerly Madras), Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and Hyderabad are becoming locations for software and hardware exports, the cutting edge of India's modern economy.
Then there was Amal, a Syrian refugee girl whose parents had married her off, in order to protect her (and her family’s honor) from becoming a victim of the sexual desires of unknown men.
Even in countries not at war, poisonous identity politics is becoming increasingly widespread and accepted.
Shutting out citizens from formal democratic processes is forcing political discontent further into the shadows, where it risks becoming militarized.
He joined with Tudjman and the national movement in 1989, becoming Prime Minister, and briefly, as Croatia's representative in 1991, served as ex-Yugoslavia's last collective president.
He shared the seeming isolation of Tudjman's harshest critics, becoming a member, but not the paramount leader, of the small Croat National Party – an organization clearly in opposition but otherwise nondescript.
Indeed, despite significant variations by country, one trend is becoming increasingly apparent across the EU: voters, regardless of their political orientation, are ejecting at the first opportunity leaders who implement austerity.
Of the 250 members of provincial Communist Party standing committees, an elite group including party chiefs and governors, 60 claim to have earned PhDs.Tellingly, only ten of them completed their doctoral studies before becoming government officials.
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