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The problem is that North Korea has no experience with collective leadership.
One-man rule has been so completely embedded in North Korea’s political culture and system that it is difficult to expect collective leadership to succeed.
Thus, some type of power struggle, rather like what occurred in the Soviet Union following Stalin’s death, may invariably follow a brief period of collective rule.
But the problem with military rule is a tendency toward incomplete understanding of the implications of political decisions – a problem that will be aggravated further by collective leadership.
Under a North Korean collective leadership dominated by the military, the power of the country’s economic bureaucrats will be marginal, at best.
Banking regulation is the most topical area in which collective action makes sense.
The danger of following such a path always lies in the fact that collective decision-making bodies not only provide services that are useful to everybody, but also may abuse their power to redistribute resources among the participating countries.
But it could also mean trying to address on a collective basis a broad range of issues – from security to refugees to economics – that, as pro-EU campaigners point out, the UK cannot resolve on its own.
That is why it is incumbent upon us in Japan to reconstruct the legal basis for collective self-defense and international cooperation, including participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations – a reform that my administration has begun.
Israel’s blockade amounts to collective punishment.
The post-WWII period stands as a reference point in America’s collective memory, but it was in all likelihood an aberration.
What is unambiguous today is a growing intolerance for bad governance and corruption – a collective rejection evident in countries as diverse as Burma, Congo, Russia, and Bolivia, not to mention Arab countries from Syria to Morocco.
In liberal, market driven societies, however, eugenics will not be coercively imposed by the state for the collective good.
From “Les Bleus” to “the Blues”PARIS – Is football (soccer) just a mirror that reflects the collective emotions of a country?
Asia is doing less well in the World Cup than it is doing in economic terms, yet it is definitely progressing, compensating for the current lack of individual talent by the greater collective discipline shown by its teams.
A weak emperor (the president of the French Football Federation) chose an incompetent general (the coach Raymond Domenech), who failed to inspire mercenaries (the players) or to instill in them a sense of collective sacrifice and duty.
In Ottawa, the Canadian parliament has called for similar measures, including asset freezes against those responsible for Magnitsky's death, as has the European Parliament, which has called for the European Union’s member states to take collective action.
The rise of economic nationalism, growing security threats, and the ongoing refugee crisis have made collective responses more necessary.
On the contrary, the Target system is essentially a collective insurance scheme: if a national central bank were to default, the loss would be shared among all ECB shareholders.
History suggests that collective negotiation about currencies and a new approach to the issue of reserves are unlikely to succeed.
If collective inaction prevails, we risk a return to the political and economic woes of the 1930’s, which paved the way to a devastating world conflict.
The methods used to pay market operators reflected our collective mistakes.
We must, however, reach several objectives and give clear signs of a true collective ambition.
In the first episode of A Touch of Sin, the local boss has become a private-plane-owning billionaire by stripping and selling all of his region’s collective assets.
To this end, the European Commission has proposed the European Defense Fund, which would foster common defense research and allow participating member states to reduce costs through collective purchases of military assets.
We have had the opportunity to learn a thing or two about the stupidity and uselessness of organized collective violence.
Since WWII, Europeans have found it unacceptable to subject any group to collective punishment or mass expulsion on the basis of ethnicity, so, in casting aside fundamental rights in the name of security, rounding up Roma sets a worrying precedent.
A member of a collective called Najeen (Survivors), Rasheed is part of a vanguard of younger artists, writers, and filmmakers whose work attests to their commitment to art in the midst of crisis.
Resolving a sovereign-debt crisis requires a collective agreement by creditors, which can be achieved only by individual investors’ incentive to try to grab their money and run.
The IMF proposed one in 2002; but, in the face of concerted lobbying by investors, the scheme was rebuffed and instead an agreement was reached to use collective action clauses (CACs) in debt contracts.
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