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While these pseudo-religions collapsed, a benevolent ideology of social democracy dominated much of Europe.
This policy, which Israelis view to be benevolent, supposes that economic integration of Arabs and Jews is possible without modifying the Zionist concept of Israel as a Jewish state.
The attempt to impose a benevolent creditors’ dictatorship is now being met by a debtors’ revolt.
Even theists will struggle to understand why a benevolent deity should want someone who is dying to remain alive until the last possible moment, no matter how severe the pain, discomfort, or loss of dignity may be.
But despite this, the EU should not allow Russia to send it into a benevolent irrelevance.
Until recently, the era following World War II was a time of benevolent liberal internationalism.
This is where the first miracle is needed – a benevolent but ultimately profit-driven billionaire or hedge fund, or a philanthropy that sees a way to do good while earning money for future goodness.
Even in Germany, where pan-European idealism is universal, the EU is popular because it seems a natural extension of the new Germany's benevolent ideals: an orderly, regulated, federal system of social partnership modeled on the postwar German state.
Or should it be controlled by a benevolent state that doles out life-enhancing genes to all its newly conceived children?
We face an urgent need to define a safety zone that prevents us from pushing our planet out of the unusually benevolent Holocene state.
Of course, China’s motives are not purely benevolent.
Moscow is also interested in retaining multiple centers of power in Europe: facing only the EU, benevolent as it may be, is the sort of non-choice most Russians want to avoid.
The US had a unique opportunity at the end of the Cold War to use its benevolent and enlightened superiority to establish a better international order.
Keynesian economics, in turn, abstracted from the problem of official incompetence and corruption by assuming that governments were run by omniscient, benevolent experts.
It must also consider China’s rise, which demands that China be incorporated more fully into governance bodies, which will have far-reaching implications, especially as the country emerges as a less benevolent global actor.
The benevolent hegemon, which used to be the French-German couple, is missing.
Moreover, the US was the only benevolent power left standing in Western Europe at the end of WWII.
Thailand’s national mythology is that it is a happy Buddhist country, a “land of smiles” bound together by compassion and harmony under the benevolent grace and blessings of the Palace and the generosity of big business.
Like the country he represented, Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, looked so young, glamorous, rich, and full of benevolent energy.
Traditional socialism, with its promise of the benevolent power of the state, has vanished beyond recall; and so has the infinite reassurance of the welfare state, which was supposed to protect against all adversity; and so has the paradigm of Keynesian demand management, with its promise of guaranteed employment and prosperity.
So Latin America is now constantly presented with “extraordinary” situations that supposedly require a certain individual, such as a great, benevolent cacique , to occupy the center of the political scene and govern with an enormous discretionary capacity.
Confucianism was essentially a philosophical justification of government by benevolent bureaucracy under a virtuous ruler.
The emperor was the supreme paterfamilias, his benevolent rule reciprocated by the obedience of his ministers and subjects, while family members were fixed in their appropriate hierarchical relationships.
Any real-world economy is riddled with market failures, so a benevolent and omnipotent government could sensibly intervene quite often.
But who has ever met a benevolent or omnipotent government?
All of Europe would benefit if Germany assumed the role of a benevolent leader that takes into account not only its narrow self-interest, but also the interests of the rest of Europe – a role similar to that played by the US in the global financial system after World War II, and by Germany itself prior to its reunification.
So when China showed up, promising benevolent investment and easy credit, they were all in.
Much more importantly, however – and perhaps to the surprise of many benevolent international observers – the Mexican left is nowhere near transforming itself into a modern, reformist, social-democratic party.
It is pretty clear by now that an extraordinarily benevolent external environment, not a revolutionary policy shift, underpinned Latin America’s rapid growth in the years following the 2008-2009 global economic crisis.
Such dark protectionist thoughts are far from the minds of the benevolent organizers of the United Kingdom’s annual “Fairtrade Fortnight,” during which I just bought two bars of fair-trade chocolate and a jar of fair-trade chunky peanut butter.
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