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At the very moment that Kenya needs to borrow more to bridge a yawning budget gap, its leaders are bumping up against the cold calculus of international finance.
The commercial calculus behind this business sometimes caused riots until anatomy laws allowed the bodies of executed murderers and the unclaimed dead to be used, thus reassuring middle and upper class individuals that their bodies would not be involved.
But does such a calculus make sense, or is it simply wishful thinking, a reassuring and comfortable illusion designed to make French leaders feel good, when in fact they are dealing with Russia on purely commercial grounds?
This type of tragic calculus is strikingly common.
International Justice Supports National JusticeIn recent years, an emerging international system of justice has begun to undermine the old calculus of tyrants and torturers.
Too often, summit declarations have melted into air once the delegations went home and short-term political calculus regained the upper hand.
The new paradigm dramatically changes the strategic calculus in the region.
The bloodshed in France, however, has changed the calculus completely, pointing toward the possibility of a rapprochement between Russia and the West.
This sorry calculus is being carried out across the continent.
But although this group includes many tech luminaries and attracts significant funding, its academic output has so far failed to prove their calculus convincingly.
Costs to human life or the planet rarely enter into their calculus.
For example, what sense does it make for each college in the United States to offer its own highly idiosyncratic lectures on core topics like freshman calculus, economics, and US history, often with classes of 500 students or more?
(The Kremlin's apparent failure to anticipate China's refusal to accept such a dispensation – particularly in Central Asia, which is key to President Xi Jinping's economic vision – represents a puzzling lapse in Putin's strategic calculus.)
That is when the old political calculus may take its grim toll.
By manipulating the salience of a memory, you affect the perception of risk and the calculus of the decision.
Putin is moving aggressively to exploit the three months between now and the January 20 inauguration of the next US president, based on the callous calculus that the United States will be mostly immobilized by the political transition.
The ongoing prosecutions have already changed the calculus for any economic agent who is thinking about violating the public’s trust for private gain.
Recent upheavals in many member states’ party systems have altered the electoral calculus, and the pro-Europeans must adapt accordingly.
Yet the Trump administration seems all but oblivious to this component of the growth calculus.
American consumers’ unprecedented retrenchment has turned the US economy’s growth calculus inside out.
As a result, its partners’ trade calculus will always be shaped by strategic considerations, which are not a factor for them when dealing with Europe.
To change the Israeli-Palestinian dynamic, external actors now need to influence the political calculus inside Israel and Palestine by lowering the political cost of peace and raising the cost of occupation .
Any meaningful Arab-Israeli peace depends on Israel’s return of Palestinian territories, with certain conditions, but no Israeli government will be willing or even able to do so unless the political calculus inside Israel changes.
Europe and others can support such a process, but mainly by affecting the internal political calculus in Israel.
In the cruel calculus of disasters, those least responsible for causing climate change will suffer first and worst from its inevitable effects.
By contrast, a purely Benthamite view would lead to a view of politics as a set of disparate decisions based on a disembodied utilitarian calculus.
This, too, causes conceptual and practical measurement challenges for established GDP calculus.
What makes Bayrou potentially so strong is the fact that widespread reservations about the two leading candidates are influencing the calculus of militants and politicians alike.
Government investors are not necessarily driven by the return-maximizing calculus that motivates private investors.
Tainting Qatar as a regional pariah is unlikely to change its calculus, for two reasons.
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