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So the window of opportunity to talk and compromise may be open only briefly, and, unfortunately, we have probably not seen the end of nuclear brinkmanship.
The good economic data will reinforce initial favorable impressions of Angela Merkel’s new government, which got off to an excellent start at the EU Summit, where Merkel helped to broker a compromise between Britain and France on the Union’s 2007-2013 budget (by adding another €2 billion to Germany’s annual contribution).
The EU most likely would have collapsed early on had it not been for what The Economist has described as its “spirit of grubby compromise.”
The EU’s spirit of “grubby compromise” will have won out again.
Unlike dictatorships, the democratic process takes time, and implies compromise.
Indeed, China’s paramount leader must rely on teamwork, compromise, and support from his colleagues for decision-making and policy implementation.
When both parties to a dispute know that they are likely to end in a labor court, neither has an incentive to compromise.
Sceptics fear that now that the collective financial threat is perceived, rightly or wrongly, to be manageable, the Pittsburgh Summit will result in a weak compromise that reflects divergent national interests rather than a sense of urgency about tackling climate change, chronic poverty and ineffective global governance.
Given that satisfying one of these prerequisites often comes at the cost of the others, such a system would entail continuous adjustment and compromise.
For example, he overruled Iranian nuclear negotiators who offered a compromise during the Geneva negotiations in October 2009.
Neither Asian, nor European, this middle ground is not mere compromise, it is the authentic Russia.
But in Rouhani’s discussions on proliferation back then, Iran had offered the three EU countries with which it had begun negotiations a reasonable compromise: Iran would maintain a civil but not a military nuclear capacity.
The talks collapsed: no compromise, no agreement.
Bringing the Baltic states into Nato, Russia claims, would severely compromise its security (for that read Russian self-esteem).
Voters will learn to compromise, replacing tailor-made niche-parties with a couple of solid off-the-shelf options.
In the absence of a compromise – and forces that can guarantee its terms – polarization can lead to bad outcomes, ranging in seriousness from Spain in 1982 to Turkey in 1980, and, most worryingly, Algeria in 1992, when the military regime’s nullification of an Islamist electoral victory touched off a prolonged and brutal civil war.
During the Round Table negotiations that brought about the end of communist rule, a compromise was reached between the reform wing of the communist government and Solidarity.
Solidarity adopted a philosophy of compromise rather than revenge, and embraced the idea of a Poland for everyone rather than a state divided between omnipotent winners and oppressed losers.
Given sufficient will, there could be ample room for compromise.
The challenge is to find the proper point of balance – the “fair compromise” – between the parties.
Those Polish elections were the result of a compromise hammered out during weeks of "Round Table" negotiations between the leaders of the Communist party and representatives of the Solidarity trade union.
A compromise - and this is, of course, what the Round Table was - is usually a result of some weakness on both sides.
They offered to talk about a political compromise that would bring some new people into the Parliament, provided real "radicals," like Jacek Kuron or myself, were kept out.
I could see that the historical chance for my country was beginning in an act of compromise.
But rather than emphasize “denuclearization” – which implies a one-sided compromise – negotiators should seek to secure a nuclear-weapons-free zone (NWFZ) on the Korean Peninsula.
Right now, every senior politician in America is telling their favorites in the press that they are confident that compromise on the “fiscal cliff” will be reached before the end of December.
Ending the civil war that erupted almost simultaneously with Georgian independence, and putting a stop to the bloody conflicts and attempts at secession that followed, required me, at times, to compromise on some issues in order to rescue even more important values – such as the very life of the country.
This model is being hailed internationally as a possible compromise formula for ending intractable conflicts where atrocities cannot go unpunished but incentives must be found to disarm warring factions.
The general public approved of this seeming compromise.
The longer Israel, cheered on by the wrong European friends, continues to humiliate the Palestinians and occupy their lands, the more likely it will be that hatred and violence will stand in the way of compromise, without which there can be no peace.
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