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Once such a coalition gains a sure footing, the next step would be to participate actively in the negotiation of major security issues, such as international arms control, arms reduction, and non-proliferation, while encouraging the involvement of China and Russia.
The goal should be to build and exercise influence within the international community to the point that the coalition becomes tantamount to a permanent “sixth” member of the Security Council.
Populists are making gains across the European Union, and Italy, a founding member, is now governed by a Euroskeptic coalition comprising the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and nationalist League party.
For the past four years, the country has been governed by a minority coalition comprising the Green Party and the Social Democrats, a bloc that is barely tolerated by center-right forces.
Indeed, the one prime minister who did press for an agreement, Manmohan Singh, was met with strong domestic resistance, including from a coalition ally, making it impossible to gain enough votes to adopt the required constitutional amendment.
Two factors – in addition to Lugo’s strategic missteps and the shifting alliances within the government coalition – explain why Paraguay’s leaders have driven their country off this cliff.
The Colorados dominated this winner-take-all game during six decades of one-party rule, but lost their political monopoly in 2008, when the Liberals, in exchange for the vice-presidential nomination, backed a leftist coalition supporting Lugo.
The Liberals’ behavior seems especially myopic: in ousting Lugo, they ruptured the only political coalition capable of defeating the Colorados.
Bush’s Gambling DebtsGeorge W. Bush’s economic policies have been based on an extraordinarily reckless gamble that reflects a political coalition of two major forces: the super-rich and evangelical Christians.
The super-rich had one over-riding objective in joining the Bush coalition: tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthiest households.
But as the storm clouds gather in the coming year, the political coalition that put Bush in power will stifle progress in undoing the fiscal mess.
Syriza does not share this outlook; and, indeed, Tsipras did not seek out To Potami, which received 6% of the vote, as a potential coalition partner.
Thus, it is no accident that Tsipras chose the far-right Independent Greeks party as his coalition partner.
And so, from 1970 to 2000, a broad coalition of conservatives (who wanted to see the government stop encouraging immorality), centrists (who wanted government money spent effectively), and leftists (who wanted poverty alleviated) removed the “notches” from the social-insurance system.
Moreover, claims that the Saudi coalition has intentionally targeted civilians – or infrastructure, for that matter – have not been substantiated by neutral parties.
The future of the social sciences may lie in rekindling this coalition of law and medicine and upgrading the artificial in a world that may have come to overvalue nature.
The German Chancellor and his "red-green" coalition still clings to power but is today severely weakened.
While the anti-coup forces support a return to electoral democracy, the pro-coup coalition, led by the Democrat Party, is increasingly realigning itself against the military, in the hope of securing power in whatever post-coup system emerges.
Other similar efforts include the cross-partisan coalition Patriots and Pragmatists and the National Association of Non-Partisan Reformers, which are laying the groundwork for a bottom-up reform movement across the country.
He spent his time making sure the political coalition to support the Texas Rangers in the style to which it wanted to be accustomed remained stable.
Four years ago, on a high tide of hope, a center/right coalition and a new “democratic” president - Emil Constantinescu - took power, surprisingly defeating Iliescu and his party.
From day one, the coalition was riven by feuds.
Instead of blaming Iliescu for the shambles in which he left the country, coalition members blamed each other.
One sign that he actually will institute reform will be demonstrated by whether or not the PDSR governs alone or in coalition with a centrist/liberal party or with the Hungarian minority party.
For to convince the world that they would continue reforming, Poland and Hungary’s postcommunists formed coalition governments despite winning overwhelming parliamentary majorities.
Whether Nastase can pursue a sensible program depends mightily on party unity, and here the PDSR is as divided as Constantinescu’s coalition.
Of course, the overall cooling of political tensions reflects the collapse of another misconception of the Bush administration – that the “axis of evil” is an irrational coalition interested only in spreading evil.
In Italy, the right-wing coalition government led by Silvio Berlusconi has taken a lurch away from Italy's traditional enthusiasm for Europe, inciting Renato Ruggiero, its pro-European foreign minister, to resign.
Berlusconi's right-wing coalition is dependent on support from the right-wing, xenophobic Northern Alliance and post-fascist National Alliance parties; so some Euro-sceptic rhetoric is to be expected.
While progress towards this goal has been stymied by the mundane practicalities of restoring law and order, the coalition must eventually take it up.
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