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And when, after the
collapse
of communism, the end of history seemed near, ideological politics was thought to have vanished forever.
Such a resounding
collapse
of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty would pose a formidable challenge to the world community, particularly to the Middle East.
Thanks to European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” speech, new financial facilities to stabilize distressed sovereign debtors, and the beginning of a banking union, the eurozone is no longer on the verge of
collapse.
The Last Bastion of a Profitable PressNEW DELHI – Around the world, newspapers seem to be facing imminent extinction, as a mass exodus to the Internet causes their circulation to slump and their advertising revenue to
collapse.
But, with China on the verge of economic and social collapse, following the decade-long chaos of the Cultural Revolution, he had to take action – and there were few, if any, alternatives available.
The second major shock came with Argentina's currency
collapse
of 2002-3, after which Argentina's government demanded an extremely large debt write-off.
Also common to rentier states are short investment horizons, vulnerability to commodity-price volatility – euphoria when they surge, crisis when they
collapse
– and an underdeveloped and uncompetitive manufacturing sector.
When Russia marks the twentieth anniversary of the
collapse
of the Soviet Union this Christmas, it will have much to celebrate.
First among such sources of uncertainty is the global economy: will volatility and imbalances lead to collapse, or will greater multipolarity underpin greater resilience?
In the NIC’s view, “a
collapse
or sudden retreat of US power would most likely result in an extended period of global anarchy,” with “no stable international system and no leading power to replace the US.”
South Korean public opinion is split on how to handle the North, but the majority fear that a sudden
collapse
would have catastrophic effects on the South’s economy.
Similarly, China, with its focus on economic growth, fears that a
collapse
of the North Korean regime would threaten stability on its borders.
First, governments will bail out the largest banks rather than let them
collapse
and damage the economy.
But the decisive event for the revisionists was the
collapse
of the Soviet empire, which not only left the United States top dog globally, but also seemed, to the more philosophically minded, to vindicate Western civilization and values against all other civilizations and values.
The “triumph of the West” that followed the
collapse
of Communism in Europe was clearly not the “end of history.”
The most significant meetings took place on September 16 and October 28 – in the aftermath of the
collapse
of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers – and focused on the creation of bilateral currency-swap agreements aimed at ensuring adequate liquidity.
As fears of a sudden
collapse
of the eurozone have given way to a prolonged debate about how the costs will be met through bail-ins and write-offs, the IMF’s position will become increasingly convoluted.
The issue is not whether the Fed, or any central bank, should seek to prevent the
collapse
of its country’s banking system.
If the choice at any particular moment is to provide support or let the system collapse, you should choose support.
For Solzhenitsyn, a survivor of the gulag system enforced by the KGB, the desire to see Russia as a great nation, its eternal spirit superior to the West’s vulgar materialism, found him in old age supporting ex-KGB man Putin, who once said that there is no such thing as an ex-KGB man and who sees the Soviet Union’s
collapse
as the greatest geo-political catastrophe of modern times.
World leaders signed the Agreed Framework with North Korea in 1994 (I was engaged in the process as Australia’s foreign minister), but we dragged our feet in building the nuclear reactors and delivering the heavy fuel oil promised, partly owing to a widespread belief that the regime’s
collapse
was imminent.
In Brazil, Dilma Rousseff was impeached and removed from office, not defeated at the polls, but the
collapse
in popularity of her Workers’ Party (PT) and the pro-business administration that followed fit neatly with what seems like a regional trend.
As long as we rely on technical fixes to plug moral gaps and governments rush in with rescue packages that enable the merry-go-round to start up again, we are bound to keep lurching from frenzy to frenzy, punctuated by intervals of
collapse.
But the country’s decision not to join the League of Nations – based on sovereignty arguments much like those now being used to promote Brexit – led to the League’s collapse, severely weakening US security.
The continent’s political leaders, paralyzed by the rise of anti-immigrant populism, are turning their backs on desperately vulnerable people fleeing war, human-rights abuses, and economic
collapse.
After all, in 2040, many emerging markets – those that have managed to avoid stagnation or
collapse
by addressing effectively the considerable challenges currently facing them – will have “emerged.”
For example, a cyber superbug destroys the networks on which our way of life has come to depend, leading to economic, demographic, and environmental
collapse.
It may not collapse, but it would not thrive, owing to the lack of a stable, viable, and effective institutional structure with fixed and accepted limits.
(According to one measure, the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis and the 2013 government shutdown caused uncertainty comparable to that sparked by the September 2001 terrorist attacks and the 2008
collapse
of Lehman Brothers.)
But the onset of the Great Depression intensified the pressure to do something – anything – that might alleviate the
collapse
of domestic spending.
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