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The Palestinians are not primed for compromise, either.
In any case, President Mahmoud Abbas lacks the legitimacy to turn his back on his predecessor Yasser Arafat’s legacy and confront Hamas over the need to compromise on core elements of the Palestinian national narrative.
But his life experience should enable him to understand better than most people the extent to which ego can impede even the most minor compromise.
To persuade Israeli and Palestinian leaders to take the political risk that compromise entails will require massive pressure from both the US and Israel’s Arab neighbors.
Unless some rational compromise is agreed, insistence on that approach will lead only to massive and even more costly defaults.
America’s friends around the world watched with dismay the recent brawl in over raising the federal government’s debt ceiling, and the US Congress’s inability to come to anything like a balanced and forward-looking compromise.
Political posturing and outlandish claims foreclosing any possibility of compromise?
The current winner-takes-all electoral system tends to favor regional opposition parties that are identity-driven and not prone to political compromise.
Some believe a political compromise between Republicans and Democrats can be reached before the 2012 election; others suggest an agreement is more likely after the election.
This is a topic on which they could help pave the way for an eventual global compromise.
Indeed, the last-minute agreement to raise the debt ceiling is proof that the politicians did what they were sent to Washington to do: represent their constituencies and only compromise in the interests of the country as a whole.
These then are the roots of America fiscal impasse, which has produced passionate constituencies viscerally opposed to compromise.
If this structure works as advertised, Congress will be forced to reach a compromise, which can be sold once again by politicians to their polarized constituencies as being necessary to avoid a worse outcome.
A donation from a Chinese state-owned enterprise to, say, a Western academic or cultural institution must be handled with extraordinary care, if not rejected outright, because it could compromise the recipient’s reputation or constrain its freedom.
Palestinians made one compromise after another, hoping that partial agreements would lead to statehood.
The Founding Fathers created this system as a compromise between the popular vote and a vote by Congress, to balance the influence of each state.
Some members of Congress are unwilling to vote for any tax increase, even as part of a compromise to avert the fiscal cliff or to stabilize the debt.
But how this motivation affects their willingness to compromise has changed as a result of redistricting and the growing polarization of voting districts along partisan lines.
In such districts, members have little incentive to compromise on bipartisan deals to address the country’s fiscal challenges, because failure to do so poses no threat to their re-election.
To see why, one need look no further than the House Ways and Means Committee, whose current chairman, Paul Ryan, is a leader of the hardline Republican insurgents who had scorned Boehner for being too willing to compromise with President Barack Obama and House Democrats.
With security outsourced to America, European governments shifted their focus and expenditures to social welfare and set about building a twenty-first-century post-sovereign utopia that has blurred national divisions and replaced aggression and hostility with negotiation and compromise.
And if a compromise is reached – a so-called “third way” solution involving increased autonomy within Spain – the subsidies for media and cultural outlets on which they depend will be freed from the threat of austerity.
After a year of negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo, President Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin rejected the UN mediator’s report recommending supervised independence, prevented the Security Council from accepting that report, and insisted on three additional months of negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo – even after compromise became impossible.
Such a proposal could get some support in Europe and elsewhere as a seemingly appropriate compromise, even if it would destabilize the Balkans once more.
External powers are extremely foolish to allow themselves to be manipulated into taking sides in bitter national or sectarian conflicts that can be resolved only by compromise.
Yet each side in these conflicts harbors the tragic illusion of achieving an ultimate victory without the need to compromise, if only the US (or some other major power) will fight the war on its behalf.
More than ever, we need an era of diplomacy that emphasizes compromise, not another round of demonization and an arms race that could all too easily spiral into disaster.
Yet, while the two parties now seem irreconcilable, it is not too late for compromise.
As with any compromise, the contending parties would both gain and lose from this arrangement.
Like their European brethren, Latin America’s social democratic governments should eventually prosper through pluralist democracies and the even more demanding politics of compromise.
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