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So how do countries like Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Venezuela cope with a collapse in the price of their dominant (and in some cases, only) export?
The last few decades, as well as previous history, offer ample evidence that an imposed order will inevitably collapse.
The collapse of an artificial order often takes a toll, indeed, may be as exacting as the price first paid for the imposition of that order.
Big banks’ ability to extort such an arrangement stems from an implicit threat: the financial sector – and with it the economy’s payment system – would collapse if a systemically important bank were ever pushed into insolvency.
In case of insolvency, a bank’s computers would not be turned off, its employees would not instantly be dismissed, and payment transactions would not collapse.
First, they intervened to prevent the financial system’s collapse, and, later, to stop a sovereign-debt and banking crisis in Europe.
If the causes of this development are not addressed, Karzai's government will inevitably collapse, and with it the entire international process that began a year ago.
With their traditional policy tools all but exhausted, the authorities had to be exceptionally creative in confronting the collapse in financial markets and a looming implosion of the real economy.
That doctrine of hard discipline was abolished in a coup in May 2010, when it was claimed that the world would collapse unless Germany opened its purse.
But any attempt to limit the fiscal discretion of America's Federal government in the manner of the Stability Pact-for example, the infamous Gramm/Rudman rules of the Clinton era-always collapse in the end in the face of presidential and congressional pressure.
First, we are deeply distressed to watch an economy collapse before our eyes, with bread lines and bank queues not seen since the Great Depression.
Now the value of both imports and exports have fallen, though the former have declined more, owing to the collapse of global commodity prices.
Among Italy’s main economic weaknesses are its historically low levels of public investment and its creaking infrastructure, as evidenced by the tragic collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa this August.
What is less clear is the role that the US should play in the event of a peaceful collapse.
Sixty years after the end of the Korean War, South Korea is well equipped to take the lead in the event of a North Korean collapse.
Even the US withdrawal from the fragile Paris climate agreement has not resulted in its collapse.
In Europe, where national economic failure once led to the collapse of democracy itself, people are now asking if it could happen again.
Discredited by the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet bloc in Eastern Europe, communism is effectively moribund, and its core constituencies – where communist parties manage to hang on – are aging and incapable of reproducing themselves.
But much more important was what the fascist and authoritarian regimes shared – all were beneficiaries of a sweeping collapse of the legitimacy of democratic politics.
But if any troubled southern European economy fails to roll over its debt in the coming months, the resulting contagion will spread quickly from the eurozone throughout the global financial system, with consequences far more grave than what followed Lehman Brothers’ collapse in September 2008.
Either way, financial and political instability could lead to the common currency’s collapse.
Her recent election to a third term offers room for bolder policy choices, while forcing her to focus more on her legacy – specifically, whether she wishes to be associated with the euro’s collapse or with its revival.
Either way, Plan A, in which governments do just enough to avert collapse but fail to jump-start growth, will no longer be viable.
Morsi’s political incompetence and lack of vision in the face of economic collapse would have been enough to diminish support for his government.
The Transparency ConspiracySOFIA – One of the most troubling outcomes of the ongoing financial crisis has been a collapse of trust in democratic institutions and politicians.
So no surprise that Russian science fell into a black hole due to economic upheaval in the decade following communism's collapse.
Of course, the seeds of the collapse of Russian science were sown in the Soviet era, when three-quarters of scientific research was financed by the military.
The collapse of world oil and gas prices has wounded Russia’s budget, and lack of investment in the country’s energy sector over the years is now causing the declining production that economists have long predicted.
But that does not mean that Latin America's biggest economy will collapse as ignominiously as Mexico's did.
What is becoming clearer by the day is that the formula defining Western policy towards Russia since communism’s collapse – “Let’s engage Russia if we can, let’s contain Russia if we must” – must now be completely rethought.
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