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But it may be that we are seeing a revival of a less benign Keynesian doctrine: “ideas, knowledge, science....should of their nature be international.
But NATO' s motives, benign or not, are no defense to illegality.
However, if the global trade framework institutionalised in the WTO advances, especially through multilateral, non-discriminatory liberalisation in the present Doha Round, the new regionalism will probably turn out to be benign.
But this scenario may be too benign.
To preserve the appearance that their meddling is benign, senior military officers probably know that they cannot afford to install another general as president.
If these talks fail, partition will probably be permanent, and, no matter how benign the environment today, geopolitics will catch up with the island over time.
However, these clinical trauma theorists do not argue that “repressed” or “dissociated” memories of horrific events are either inert or benign.
At the benign end of the spectrum, this realm includes actors as diverse as bankers electronically transferring huge sums; at the other end are terrorists transferring weapons or hackers disrupting Internet operations.
Cracks have appeared, despite a benign context.
Governments, they believe, are run by crooks, so tie their hands; bureaucrats are beholden to rent-seeking private agents, so ensure non-discretion and apply uniform taxes and incentives; domestic political systems cannot be trusted, so import laws and institutions from abroad; external influences are always more benign than domestic ones, so ensure maximum openness to international trade and investment; reformers have a limited "honeymoon period," so implement reforms fast.
The clash of two visions of Europe is eroding the political stability of an area that once represented the best model and greatest hope for benign regionalism.
Twenty-first century technologies will offer environmentally benign lifestyles and the resources to ease the plight and enhance the life chances of the world’s two billion poorest people.
If this were true of all countries, the global population would start to decline after 2050 – a development that would surely be benign.
The decisions that we will make both individually and collectively in the foreseeable future will determine whether twenty-first century science yields benign or devastating outcomes.
The European Union, a political community built on democratic consensus, was not established in order to bring about the end of the nation-state; its purpose has been to turn nationalism into a benign force of transnational cooperation.
If the US were to give up its leadership role too quickly, chaos might follow and less benign powers might jump into the vacuum.
Each may sound legitimate and benign, but all stand for the same corrupt system.
In the most benign scenario, Putin himself would evolve.
Concerns over nanomaterials’ possible effects on health and the environment have perhaps overshadowed the pressing need to ensure that their production is clean and environmentally benign.
Can benign regulation really be bought?
We now know that some of these market emperors had no clothes, and that their activities, far from benign, could result in severe financial instability and generate serious losses for taxpayers, not to mention precipitating a global recession.
The risk to this benign scenario is, of course, that Marine Le Pen wins in France.
While Beijing/Shenyang exercise should have indicated to Russian leaders that China’s intentions toward Russia may not always be benign, Russia’s political and military leadership seem not to sense any threat; on the contrary, they continue to sell the Chinese advanced weapons.
If American hegemony, which truly exists today, is to be transitional – ie, if it is to end in a benign fashion and not by a sudden displacement producing anarchy, nor by an unilateral American desertion from the global scene, which would also produce anarchy – fundamental systemic changes must take places in the process of this hegemony's evolution.
But this diversity is not entirely benign.
And its effects on non-members – including significant powers like China, India, Indonesia, and the Soviet bloc – were not always benign.
Without a fundamental reset, relations between Russia and Europe will continue to decay, eventually becoming characterized by benign neglect.
When antibiotics first entered into common use in the 1940s, previously dangerous conditions, such as pneumonia or infected cuts, became benign conditions that could be treated easily.
To be sure, large deficits can be benign or even desirable during recessions and wars, or when used to finance productive public investments; and in a deep, long-lasting downturn, with interest rates at or near zero, a well-timed, sensible fiscal response can theoretically help in the short term.
Low inflation may have helped to boost the price competitiveness of Spanish exports, but it is far from benign.
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