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Competition to control water has already played a key role in regional geopolitical tensions, for instance, between Turkey and Syria;Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority;Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia; and between Saudi Arabia and its neighbors, Qatar, Bahrain, and Jordan.
Because the state uses its apparatus to deter competition – both informally, through arbitrary enforcement of property rights, and formally, through trade restrictions – crony capitalism is not only unjust, but also inefficient.
Without competition, capitalism works only a little better than socialism did.
Poland introduced massive competition by dismantling monopolies and opening its economy to the world.
Détente helped to keep the competition from spilling over into conflict as it exposed the Communist world to Western ideas of freedom and capitalism along with their benefits.
But this alone would not have been enough; indeed, the Cold War could well have turned hot if Western strategy had consisted only of military competition and confrontation.
It was important to moderate the competition in order to allow pressure for change to build up from within the Soviet bloc.
His threats to launch a trade war against “unfair” foreign competition seems likely to draw in Russia’s steel exports.
”The Gospel of Wealth” is based on the premise that business competition results in “survival of the fittest” – the fittest being those endowed with the most “talent for organization.”
Indeed, both Syria and Lebanon were sites of strategic competition between Iran and Turkey.
Thus, for example, Turkey’s competition with Iran over Iraqi politics and the crisis in Syria has intensified, though bilateral dialogue about Iran’s nuclear program continues.
But, as Turkey builds closer relations with the US, and its competition with Iran stiffens in both Iraq and Syria, it will also have to deal with a more assertive Russia, which is eager to prove itself in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean – and to maintain its foothold in Syria.
Facing escalating geopolitical competition with the US, China is scrambling to win friends in the region.
Ironically, in an era of mounting resource competition, cooperation to rebuild depleted fish stocks would actually result in a greater catch for all.
Is there another way to manage the relationship that, while reflecting the reality of these forces and mindsets on both sides, would not risk turning legitimate competition into dangerous confrontation?
Domestic industries that face foreign competition are beginning to close down or relocate abroad.
Though political resistance and financial limitations have slowed expansion, this is arguably the most far-reaching universal coverage scheme, because it creates competition among all kinds of insurers and health care providers.
Because educational attainment is considered a measure of merit, officials scramble to obtain advanced degrees in order to gain an advantage in the competition for power.
Worse, as competition for promotion within the Chinese bureaucracy has escalated, even fake academic credentials and GDP growth records have become insufficient to advance one’s career.
Brazil’s abundance of energy, food, water, and biodiversity increases its stake in a security environment characterized by rising competition for access to, or control of, natural resources.
Amid all the attention being devoted to China and the potential for competition or even conflict with the US, it should not be forgotten that Russia’s future hangs in the balance, for history suggests that declining powers can pose as great a challenge to world order as rising ones.
Policymakers must weigh the risks of volatility, exchange-rate pressures, and vulnerability to sudden reversals in capital flows against the benefits of wider access to credit and enhanced competition.
Southern eurozone countries such as Italy and Spain have suffered from rising competition with China in textiles and light manufacturing industries.
The manufacturing sector, squeezed by stagnating productivity and competition from China and other low-cost producers, is no longer competitive.
The SICP just launched a competition for a new $10.6 million round of matching grants.
Beyond subjugating those in the caliphate, exterminating the Shia, and gaining custodianship of Islam's holy cities in Saudi Arabia, the Islamic State ultimately embraces an apocalyptic vision, to be realized through a sectarian totalitarianism that embodies divine revelation – and thus envisions no compromise or competition.
Now that the housing bubble has burst, the US finds itself out-trained, out-educated, and out-maneuvered in the global competition for employment.
Crony capitalism can be understood as a system, which, though based on some market relations and private ownership, fails to respect such important rules as the enforce-ability of law, free and fair competition, equality of opportunity, protection of ownership, transparency, and public control.
Moreover, India has attempted to establish strategic ties with countries that China sees as falling within its own sphere of influence (from Mongolia to Vietnam, including direct competition over Myanmar).
But if the global trading system remains open to competition, skilled workers’ ability to forestall labor-saving technology indefinitely should prove little more successful than such attempts by unskilled workers in the past.
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