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Some observers detect a new “Geo-Green” coalition of conservative foreign-policy hawks, who worry about America’s dependence on Persian Gulf oil, and liberal environmentalists.
A recent report by the bipartisan National Commission on Energy Policy exemplifies the new coalition.
That is why the newly announced Saudi-led anti-terror coalition, the Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism, should be viewed with profound skepticism.
A smaller Saudi-led Arab coalition has been bombing Yemen since March, with the goal of pushing back the Shia Houthi rebels who captured Sana’a, the capital, after driving the Saudi-backed government from power.
Perhaps more important, the AKP government’s foreign policy has faced considerable criticism from domestic forces, which now have more power to change it – an outcome that will occur regardless of whether the AKP ultimately forms a coalition or a minority government.
A coalition of European civil-society organizations opposes Zimbabwean government participation on human rights grounds.
When the United Kingdom’s coalition government was formed last year, we were encouraged by Prime Minister David Cameron’s pledge to make this the “greenest government ever.”
The UK’s coalition government speaks with one voice about the risks of climate change.
Now that the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), once the largest government party, has quit the ruling coalition, the two-thirds vote in Congress needed to impeach Rousseff is within reach.
For example, US sanctions eventually brought Iran to the table to negotiate a nuclear deal; but sanctions were effective only because a broad international coalition, ultimately backed by the United Nations Security Council, isolated Iran financially.
It made some sense, then, that European social democrats frequently ended up in coalition governments with moderate pro-business conservatives or Christian Democrats.
The simultaneous scaling back of the local-government system, along with the divisive politics of coalition governments in Pakistan’s fragile democracy, continues to undermine implementation of the polio eradication program.
It voted the grand coalition out of office with a bang, consigning the Social Democrats to the political abyss.
So will we see a new Merkel, a chancellor who, freed from the restraints of SPD in the governing coalition, will be more decisive, reformist, and willing to take political risks?
Merkel could attempt this strategy because she knew that her right flank was covered by the FDP, which would attract voters dissatisfied with the CDU’s leftward turn, but then join in a CDU-led coalition.
At the same time, by moving to the left, Merkel ousted the SPD from the political center – where elections are won and lost in Germany – while still being able to form a workable majority in the new five-party system without risking new coalition constellations and fierce internal conflict.
To be sure, the “black and yellow” CDU-FDP coalition will make some policy corrections – slowing the nuclear phase-out, cosmetic changes to the tax system, etc. – in order not to disappoint parts of their constituency and economic supporters.
Moreover, with the grand coalition gone, she will no longer be able to blame SDP’s obstructionism for her inaction.
It will have to manage a realignment that includes a possible coalition with the Left at the federal level, but without moving too far to the left in policy terms.
If, however, a scramble towards the left occurs within the left camp, the Greens would stand to lose, as would their most likely coalition partners.
Unilateral resort to trade restrictions, by making diplomatic cooperation more difficult, complicated efforts to mobilize a coalition of the willing to contain the Nazi threat.
The current government is a fragile multiparty coalition.
In forming his new coalition, the first agreement that Barkat signed was with a new local party called “United Jerusalem.”
So Barkat’s decision to invite him into the municipal-government coalition is extremely disturbing, as is the willingness of almost all other putatively mainstream parties to approve his appointment without protest.
Barkat has always supported such construction but was stopped in the past by forces within the previous coalition and the national government.
Now, however, with King pressing from within the municipal coalition (and with a far-right construction and housing minister in the national government), Barkat is likely to escalate his efforts to expand settlements in Jerusalem’s Palestinian neighborhoods.
Barkat has defended his choice of partners by saying that he wants a broad coalition and that he does not believe in boycotting anyone, even King.
It is theoretically possible that the six Executive Board members plus France, Germany, and Italy, representing 65% percent of the eurozone’s GDP, could be outvoted by a coalition of small countries.
But, as Lebanon turns to Saudi and Syrian mediators to help rebuild a governing coalition, Iraq moves forward with a tenuous unity government of its own.
Support for Maliki’s government from Iraqiya, the multi-sectarian political coalition supported by most Sunnis, will remain in question.
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