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If they get their way, the post-World War II international order – which aimed, often successfully, to advance peace and prosperity through exchange and connection – could well
collapse.
The Dear Leader Cleans House for the Young GeneralSEOUL – There was a time, not long after the Cold War’s end, when almost everyone assumed that North Korea would soon
collapse.
Demographic data don’t capture the on-the-ground reality of asylum systems on the brink of
collapse
or economies struggling to provide housing and employment.
The most recent Greek rescue, put in place barely six weeks ago, is on the brink of
collapse.
The
collapse
of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990’s was caused not by the West, but by a wave of secession, as nationalities and minorities, seeing the party-state weakened, seized the opportunity to break free.
The financial marketplace was quite wary and tense in 2008, owing to the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers and the government bailout of mega-insurer American International Group (AIG).
How to Waste a CrisisThe global financial crisis is reaching a bottom, and yet political frustration is growing, because the low point of the
collapse
seems to offer a last opportunity to promote dramatic change, and that opportunity may be missed.
For example, long before the financial collapse, experimental economists joined psychologists in attempting to measure varying propensities to greediness.
The result was the
collapse
of the global system into depression, genocide, and world war.
The Moral Economy of DebtLONDON – Every economic
collapse
brings a demand for debt forgiveness.
With the
collapse
of the Soviet Union, that de facto US-China alliance ended, and a China-Russia rapprochement began.
The Balkan EndgameROME – Twenty years after the
collapse
of Yugoslavia and the communist regime in Albania, the western Balkans region is at a turning point once again.
If interest rates rise too far, then the
collapse
in housing values will lead to large-scale foreclosures and a
collapse
in consumption spending as well.
I myself thought that communism's
collapse
would deliver quicker social rejuvenation in Russia, although I argued from the start that Russia's road would be a hard slog, and that the country required substantial financial help from the West.
They were right about the immorality, of course; but they were wrong about the imminence of the project’s economic
collapse.
In 1939, the Cambridge University economist Claude Guillebaud published The Economic Recovery of Germany, which argued that the German economy was quite robust and would not
collapse
from overstrain or overheating in the event of a military conflict.
And yet Guillebaud was fundamentally right: Nazi Germany was not an economy on the brink of collapse, and the Western powers would have done well to start mobilizing a proper defense.
And the third generation – perfected by Germany with the “blitzkrieg” method employed in World War II – emphasized maneuver over force, with militaries using infiltration to bypass the enemy and
collapse
its force from the rear, rather than attacking frontally.
This kind of warfare emerged largely in response to America’s overwhelming conventional military advantage after the Soviet Union’s collapse, underscored by its victory in the 1991 Iraq War, with only 148 American casualties, and its intervention in the 1999 conflict in Kosovo, in which no American lives were lost.
Increased fear of competition from emerging countries is also a natural consequence of the
collapse
of the speculative bubble in equities in 2000; stock markets in some countries fell to less than half their peak value.
But, in the absence of policies to strengthen stability and sustainability, the chances of an eventual
collapse
are much greater.
Moreover, many of these regimes are simply ineffectual and will
collapse
or dramatically change in the foreseeable future.
The last decade – until the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 – was known as the Great Moderation, a period of low inflation and strong growth that reflected major new developments, such as global integration of emerging markets and major central banks’ adoption of inflation-targeting regimes during the 1990’s.
But, it also meant that a credit boom with international dimensions was not monitored, resulting in the most spectacular bust of modern times, including the near
collapse
of the banking system.
Now there is the
collapse
of the Greek government.
The result was the
collapse
of Europe’s exchange-rate mechanism.
Followed closely by a
collapse
in commodity prices, it dealt a devastating shock to the “transition economies.”
Since late summer, the United States Federal Reserve has been attempting to manage the slow-moving financial crisis triggered by the
collapse
of America’s housing bubble.
Since their
collapse
in 2007, US households have understandably become fixated on repairing the damage.
On the brink of
collapse
in the late 1970s, following the cumulative convulsions of Mao’s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, China was quick to turn to the US for external support for Deng Xiaoping’s strategy of “reform and opening up.”
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