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Morsi and his Freedom and Justice Party (the Muslin Brotherhood’s political wing) gave no sign that they were prepared to accept real compromise, as opposed to tactical delays, in achieving their vision of an Islamic state.
In his final speech, Morsi rallied his troops for the barricades and bloodshed rather than for the compromise that would have kept him in office.
The Lisbon Treaty was the compromise agreed by EU leaders in the aftermath of the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty in popular referendums in France and the Netherlands in 2005.
The Kremlin’s military campaign has tilted the stalemate in favor of the government and derailed efforts to craft a political compromise to end the war.
They must be willing to negotiate in good faith and compromise in order to enact laws, solve problems, avert crises, and build faith in the future.
The main obstacle to an agreement has been insufficient political will on the part of the US to push for the needed compromise.
That task of governance will be extra hard because, with a real democracy, economics becomes more difficult as compromise is necessary, controlling budgets is harder, and shortcuts more tempting.
Whereas the US Congress’s “supercommittee,” charged with formulating a fiscal-consolidation package, will likely come up with a proposal, it is far from clear that either Republicans or Democrats will be willing to accept compromise in an election year.
Only with Europe-wide cooperation can an effective, mutually beneficial compromise be reached.
If the negotiations are to succeed, all partners must be aware that reaching a compromise on debt payments and investment will likely be easier than finding common ground on structural reforms.
The fiscal drag from rising taxes and spending cuts will hit growth, and the political system is dysfunctional, with partisan polarization impeding compromise on the fiscal deficit, immigration, energy policy, and other key issues that influence potential growth.
This means a period of trimming, accommodation, compromise -- which could mean, on the big issues, indecision -- the last thing Poland needs.
By and large, however, few leaders are willing to compromise growth in the tech sector or the Internet in any significant way in the name of a threat that is so amorphous.
A broad compromise has been elusive, and even limited efforts have failed.
In January, a bipartisan Senate compromise was reached that would have funded Trump’s unnecessary border wall in exchange for allowing “dreamers” (who as children had been brought to the US illegally by their parents) to become citizens.
But Trump, who initially favored the compromise, then backed away from it, under pressure from his immigration adviser, Stephen Miller (an aide to Sessions when he was in the Senate), and his chief of staff, John Kelly.
Given that several prominent critics of Syria have been killed since 2005, there is little room for compromise.
No side has a yearning for war, which is why compromise solutions are possible.
But what would such a compromise look like?
From time to time, the balancing act breaks down, as it did in 1914, when the momentum of events overwhelmed belated attempts at compromise.
Thus, the Brexit compromise, if it happens, may be a moderately optimistic foretaste of the fate of populism in our century.
Without the emphasis on compromise, peaceful dispute resolution, and minority rights inherent to democracy, a united India could not exist.
Chamberlain’s belief that Britain was not yet ready for war with Nazi Germany, and that diplomacy and compromise were safer options, was in fact shared by many Europeans, who knew from personal experience the horrible consequences of war.
Henceforth, diplomacy, compromise, and shared sovereignty would be the norm, and romantic nationalism, based on military prowess, would be a thing of the past.
In this sense, competing territorial claims – like those of Japan and China for the Senkaku (Diaoyu in Chinese) Islands in the East China Sea – pose a particularly intractable challenge, given the virtual impossibility of reaching a compromise.
One might suspect the influence of French political traditions which, on the right as much as on the left, always prefer purity of principle to messy compromise.
To be sure, consensus, compromise, and a pooling of sovereignty are the only ways to resolve many of the great issues – climate change, nuclear proliferation – that bedevil our world.
Nowadays, Europe is full of whispers that “neo-Finlandization” might be a reasonable compromise for countries like Ukraine and Georgia.
US-based IT monopolies are already tempted to compromise themselves in order to gain entrance to these vast and fast-growing markets.
Though it would be premature to announce a trend, one can hope that pragmatism and compromise will prevail over the moral righteousness of political extremes.
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