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Comparing countries, there was no relationship between either the depth and duration of the output
collapse
and the increase in levels of protection, or the magnitude of the rise in unemployment and the extent of protectionism.
The onset of the Great Depression saw a
collapse
of demand, which in turn led to a sharp fall in imports.
European unemployment had just taken another large upward leap, and the “socialist” countries were so incompatible with rational economic development that their political systems would
collapse
within two years.
The rest of the decade was punctuated by the Mexican peso crisis of 1994, the East Asian crisis of 1997-98, and troubles in Brazil, Argentina, Turkey, and elsewhere, and the new millennium began with the
collapse
of the dot-com bubble in 2000 and the economic fallout from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Part of the problem is imported: The
collapse
in commodity prices and the tightening of international financial conditions hit Brazil hard.
When a national currency loses 50% of its value in a matter of weeks, economic
collapse
is at hand.
In late January, the Obama administration issued its first unequivocal reaffirmation of the strategy of democratic enlargement that has guided Western thinking since the
collapse
of the Iron Curtain two decades ago.
Like the geriatric successions that preceded the
collapse
of the Soviet Union, the succession in Saudi Arabia seems to be only a step in an inexorable march toward political decay.
Fundamental economic reforms are usually implemented only after a severe crisis, as was the case in Britain in the late 1970s, in Sweden and Finland in the early 1990s, and in Eastern Europe after the
collapse
of communism in 1989.
Yet, as Figure 4 shows, the real appreciation led to a rapid
collapse
of China’s annual export growth, from above 15% (smoothed over three-year intervals) to elow 10%, and now to a financial slump as well.
This trend was boosted by the
collapse
of the Soviet empire, because Western liberal democracies no longer had the same pressing need to counter the Communist model with egalitarian arrangements of their own.
But, in the aftermath of the financial crisis, policymakers are too pre-occupied by the real problems posed by too-big-to-fail banks, and too terrified by the potential
collapse
of weaker banks, to allow such a solution.
But the fact is that these transfers – that is, European Stability Mechanism-financed bailout programs and the European Central Bank’s prospective “outright monetary transactions” (OMT) bond-buying scheme – can do little more than fend off
collapse.
The best evidence of this failure is that, despite a huge drop in wages and costs, export growth has been flat (the elimination of the current-account deficit being due exclusively to the
collapse
of imports).
Furthermore, Spain’s success, coupled with lax credit policy in the eurozone, resulted in a financial bubble whose
collapse
exposed structural challenges.
The result was widespread defaults on foreign debts, financial distress, and the
collapse
of international capital flows.
Though the government has so far stoutly resisted this, its weak-kneed defense of secularism has raised fears that its resistance to theocratic pressure could
collapse
under sustained pressure.
Immediately after the
collapse
of the Soviet Union, Turkey looked to the newly-independent central Asian states in a mood of pan-Turkic romanticism.
Within a very short time, both the Brotherhood and Yamal pipelines – which link Russia with, respectively, Ukraine and Poland – will almost certainly begin to
collapse
as businesses.
Over the last 25 years, and especially since the
collapse
of communism, the world witnessed astounding economic integration, perhaps the greatest in human history.
The decisive role that the Iraq invasion played in the rise of ISIS, as well as in the ongoing
collapse
of the liberal international order, should have served as a warning to policymakers who would delegate America’s national security to politically unaccountable decision-makers.
Learning from LebanonNEW YORK – After watching the
collapse
of Lebanon’s government last week, it is hard not to think about efforts to build a stable Iraq.
Those currency sales would indeed lead to a
collapse
of the currency.
In the late 1990s, Madeleine Albright, then the US Secretary of State, called on governments in Europe to support an “alliance of democracies” that would reinforce Western values after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the
collapse
of the Soviet Union.
Who could have predicted that 75 years after the
collapse
of fascism in Italy that we would now have a leader in Rome acting like Mussolini?
The coalition should undertake contingency planning to secure Syria’s stock of chemical weapons after the
collapse
of Assad’s regime, and prevent any further chemical-weapon deployment.
Furthermore, do we really want to eliminate the possibility of lending to stave off a
collapse
before it occurs?
In Germany, the epicenter of democracy’s collapse, radicals on both the right and the left raged against the postwar peace settlement and the Versailles Treaty.
It is very difficult for a central government to sit on the sidelines when the economy’s key players are on the brink of
collapse.
The more important question is one for political scientists: Which governments will
collapse
this year, and with what consequences?
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