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Democratic institutions are designed for making deals between competing interests, with parliaments specializing in finding the right combination of concessions to enable agreement on a generally accepted solution.
Two competing narratives are now being tested.
When World War II ended in 1945, Japan and Russia did not sign a peace treaty, owing largely to their competing claims over the Southern Kuril Islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories.
Today, competing territorial claims – mostly involving China – continue to stoke tension across Asia.
In the United States, among the candidates still competing for the Republican Party’s nomination to challenge Barack Obama in November’s presidential election, Ron Paul stands out for arguing consistently that government is the problem, not the answer, with regard to banking.
As a result, conventional monetary and macro-prudential policies are caught between competing demands for credit, with one track needing to support productive growth and the other attempting to buy time for restructuring.
Decisions are mired in a constant battle for resources between competing interest groups, countries and organizations.
The Fund, precisely because it is an international institution that is above local politics, should be careful not to give one of the competing sides all the ammunition it needs in the run-up to the October 2019 presidential election.
Iran’s Pre-Emptive StrikeIran’s quarreling and competing leaders have decided, by their acts, to reject the offer by Europe and the United States of a nuclear reactor, aircraft spare parts, economic cooperation, and more in exchange for giving up uranium enrichment.
The old model of private partnerships – in which partners had an incentive to monitor each other to avoid reckless investments – gave way to one of public companies aggressively competing with each other and with commercial banks to achieve ever-rising profitability, which was achievable only with reckless levels of leverage.
These companies aren’t all competing to build precisely the same kind of vehicle; in fact, each considers its own approach superior.
In the meantime, each of them is competing not for a single grand prize but for a share of a growing market, risking investors’ money and their own reputations.
But if prejudicial desires lead to a dead end, and fail to reveal the right course of action, where does the key to rectitude lie?“We should all do our duty” – a very German reply – merely displaces the disagreement to another plane, where we interminably debate competing duties.
If Chinese authorities had acceded to US demands and allowed the market to determine the exchange rate, the renminbi would have depreciated further still, and US exporters would have had a harder time competing.
But, but instead of supplying the population with the necessary infrastructure – economic development, education, welfare, medical services, housing, and refugee rehabilitation – Yasser Arafat’s Fatah-led PA spent more than 70% of its meager budget on a dozen competing security and intelligence services, neglecting all other spheres of activity.
It is not clear how many street-fighters Saddam can obtain from his five competing security forces (the 5,000-man Al Amn al-Khas Special Security Service, the 4,000-man, al-Mukhabarat al-Amma General Intelligence Directorate, the 5,000-man Al-Istikhbarat al-Askariyya Military Intelligence, the 5,000 man Al Amn al-Askariyya Military Security Service, and the 8,000-man Mudiriyat al-Amn al-Amma General Security Service) whose 25,000-30,000 men are distributed throughout Iraq.
Soon, however, he was recoiling from what he saw as a chaos of competing ideas.
Reconciling these competing strategic visions of the world, in particular of global crisis, will make international diplomacy more complicated than ever.
But this amalgam of competing strategic visions probably marks the end of America’s post-Cold War power.
It will take years to sort out the competing claims under the treaty, but so far all of the concerned states are playing by the rules.
Cynics might add that even if Aung San Suu Kyi is pardoned, she may yet still be detained on political grounds or face other barriers aimed at preventing her from competing in the elections promised in Myanmar for 2010.
Recent changes in China should instead be regarded as part of a broader process, in which competing systems of governance are emerging to cope with complex, globally connected challenges, such as disruptive technologies, geopolitical rivalries, climate change, and demographic shifts.
Viewed through the traditional ODA prism, with its one-year budgets, public-finance constraints, and competing national priorities, there seems little cause for optimism.
Indeed, public-sector asset management could be “outsourced,” with private asset managers competing for the job.
Its decision to maintain output at current levels – effectively neutering the OPEC cartel – has already had a dampening effect on competing supplies; nearly $400 billion of fossil-fuel investments have been shelved.
Polish foreign policy today is torn between two competing visions.
Europe’s future will ultimately be decided by the balance of competing political pressures, particularly at the national level.
Competition requires redundancy – three or four firms competing to accomplish the same task or deliver the same product, outdoing one another and ultimately advancing the market.
Competing with one another to prove who is tougher on crime, they have militarized the region’s police forces, and casualties have increased.
The duty of progressive Europeans is to reject both: the deep establishment at the EU level and the competing nationalisms ravaging solidarity and common sense in member states like Spain.
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