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The Turkish state has kept the Halki Seminary, the only institution able to train Orthodox priests, closed since 1971.
Perhaps most strikingly, while some governments have closed their embassies in Damascus (citing safety considerations), there has been no systematic severing of diplomatic relations with Syria.
In the past -- 30 years ago in the West, five years ago in transition economies -- most countries were basically closed.
In the emerging economies of Latin America the shift from statist, closed economies to wide open trade regimes through mass privatization has led to dramatic rises in productivity, but traditional good jobs have vanished.
Since Mexico closed its air space to drug traffickers’ planes from Colombia and Venezuela, Guatemala’s coasts and highways have become crucial to the trade, with local, Mexican, and Colombian traffickers fighting for control.
The problem is that those now speaking up for long-term investing, commitment to the community, and building companies that last are doing so over dinner, behind closed doors, or under the protection of the Chatham House Rule (which requires that reported statements remain unattributed to those who made them).
There were two American strategies to prize open Japan’s supposedly closed economy.
When I emailed the Rape Crisis support institute in Uppsala, listed by the global rape-crisis organization RAINN, I received an automatic reply saying that the facility was temporarily closed.
All sides blame others for a lack of solidarity – openly or behind closed doors.
But China also imposes capital-account restrictions on portfolio-investment flows, which means that its stock markets remain relatively closed.
However, new technology is closing – or perhaps has already closed – this gap.
In part, the cleaner air reflects heavy-handed policies: polluting factories have been moved away from the capital and other major cities, and coal-fired heating systems have sometimes been closed down before alternative gas facilities have been put in place.
Each proposed measure has generated broad, bipartisan agreement among policymakers (at least behind closed doors).
Unsurprisingly, Goldman Sachs has closed its money-losing BRIC fund for investment in Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
The path to growth taken by countries like China is slowly being closed off, as cheap labor becomes less of an advantage in a global knowledge economy.
In this closed payments system, as fiscal money approaches maturity, taxpayers not in possession of that vintage will fuel rising demand for it.
It would limit the extent to which government borrowing fuels inter-bank money creation, or at least force financiers to tie up some of their inter-bank money in the closed, domestic fiscal money system, thereby minimizing shocks from sudden capital flight.
In Soviet fashion, the Moscow stock exchanges closed for four days in a row in the week of September 15, because stocks plunged too fast.
We are now moving slowly from open data to a closed online world of Facebook and apps.
A political newcomer who did not participate in El Salvador’s civil war, Funes, along with all the FMLN’s congressional candidates, was handpicked as presidential nominee, behind closed doors by the party’s Political Commission, where diehard Marxist cadres still roam unchecked.
Closed economies also can have fiscal crises, and open economies can avoid them if they follow the right policies.
For example, despite all the controversy over Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, the fact is that, since Trump took office, the US has expelled Russian diplomats, closed a Russian consulate, and imposed three rounds of sanctions on the country.
The succession was always strictly a family affair, and any disputes remained behind closed doors.
The Muslim community closed in on itself.
But a plan to close numerous bases passed by an overwhelming majority when the congressional leadership finally agreed to present a single list of bases to be closed; the list could only be voted up or down, without any possibility of amendments.
This is not to minimize the costs that specific European and Chinese companies may incur as the US market becomes more closed.
The governments that emerged from the Arab Spring’s wreckage inherited a broken system of closed deals.
Throughout the 1990s, the promise of EU membership framed a process of root-and-branch political and economic reform in Central and Eastern Europe’s previously closed societies.
Unlike in the West, where, broadly, a left-right socioeconomic cleavage shapes politics, the main split in the post-communist democracies is between proponents of an open versus a closed society.
But in a political system defined by the open-closed divide, the two sides disagree about which is which: It is always the other who seeks a closed society.
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