Commitment
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They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of
commitment.
Yet, sadly, there have been signs of slackening Western
commitment.
Aside from threatening to withdraw the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement and to start a trade war with China, Trump praises Russian President Vladimir Putin and suggests that America should not honor its
commitment
to defend its NATO allies unless they pay more for that protection.
One problem is that NATO members’
commitment
to spend at least 2% of its GDP on defense is not nearly enough.
This points to a possible solution: the US should restructure the NATO collective-defense
commitment
so that it is self-policing – what economists call “incentive-compatible.”
In 2015, then-Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz proposed that if the full defense budget could not be excluded from the SGP, at least increases in defense spending up to the 2%-of-GDP NATO
commitment
should be exempted for one year.
Having worked with Annan and for Carrington, I can vouch for their grace, honor, and
commitment
to truth.
These leaders’ combination of honor and
commitment
to truth – two attributes that are intrinsically connected – is nowhere to be seen in Trump or Johnson.
Europe has the world’s healthiest and most educated population, its largest economy, and huge stores of soft power, owing also to its
commitment
to human rights and democratic values.
The national leaders who oversee it lack the vision, commitment, or strength to set the direction for the European project.
And in St. Petersberg in July 2006, the G-8 leaders reaffirmed their
commitment
to the ambitious goals they had set the year before, although they did not go further.
I have also seen the need for ordinary Africans to embrace a set of values, like service for the common good, and commitment, persistence, and patience until a goal is realized.
The Nepali Congress Party, for example, has chosen to remain in opposition, dubious of the Maoists’
commitment
to democratic politics.
This approach was fortified last summer, when despite serious market turmoil, the CCP upheld its
commitment
to allow the market to play a “decisive role in resource allocation.”
It helps that, unlike most of his predecessors, Trump is initiating his bid for a peace agreement at the outset of his term, rather than in its twilight, thereby imbuing his position with a sense of vigor, conviction, and
commitment.
The key is practicality, boldness, and, most importantly, a
commitment
by those who are better off to volunteer their time and money to bring practical help–in the form of high-yield seeds, fertilizers, medicines, bed nets, drinking wells, and materials to build school rooms and clinics—to the world’s poorest people.
Most seriously, doubts persist about his
commitment
to democracy, with critics arguing he’s an old-style African “big man” ready to bully opponents and ravage the public coffers with his cronies.
Somehow Zuma must find a way to honor his own generation’s
commitment
to racial justice and national liberation, while empowering the masses who daily suffer the sting of class differences and yearn for material gain.
In the eurozone, the European Central Bank’s commitment, announced in 2012, to prevent debt levels from becoming unsustainable is politically conditional on fiscal restraint.
But I applaud the US Federal Reserve’s long-overdue
commitment
to the normalization of its policy rate and balance sheet.
Today’s generation of central bankers is almost religious in its
commitment
to inflation targeting – even in today’s inflationless world.
The outcome will certainly reflect what was learned from last year’s earthquake and tsunami, and seek to encourage deeper political and economic
commitment
to disaster-risk reduction and resilience worldwide.
But it is the West’s long-term
commitment
that will have the greatest impact on the Kremlin.
On the contrary, all other leaders – starting with China’s President Xi Jinping – have confirmed their
commitment
to it, and 174 countries have formally ratified it.
Asia’s ongoing transformation – rooted in the long-term conviction that more equitable, inclusive, and increasingly knowledge-led growth will help to reduce poverty and offer greater prosperity to its citizens – requires a short-term
commitment
to mitigating any global economic slowdown caused by new shocks.
And it is this collective
commitment
to the law governing how political power can be exercised that is the essence of liberal democracy.
The timing was highly significant: Merkel goes to China, the emerging global power, after declaring her own
commitment
to strengthening the eurozone, if not the EU as a whole, as a credible pole of an emerging multipolar world.
Authentic leadership requires a
commitment
to real goals.
His initial
commitment
to “zero conflicts with neighbors” has led, instead, to deteriorating relations with Armenia, Russia, Israel, and Egypt – not to mention significant domestic blowback, including a wave of terrorist attacks, from involvement in Syria’s civil war.
Its continued progress will depend on the
commitment
of two of its leading promoters – Turkey’s AKP and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood – to design and implement political systems that safeguard the basic democratic principles of pluralism, freedom, and the rule of law.
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