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Europeans have to adjust to it, rise to its challenges, and
confront
competition from the emerging powers.
NATO was founded to
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the threat that the USSR represented 60 years ago.
The current system does not empower the United Nations and other technical agencies concerned with health governance to
confront
the determinants of poor health effectively.
The events of the past 15 months – starting with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, followed by the violence in North Africa and the tragedy in Japan –
confront
the world with a stark choice between the costs and risks of traditional energy sources and the promise and progress of clean energy.
This is the choice that European leaders now confront: a radical step forward toward political or policy integration, or a clear framework to deal with the consequences of a member country’s failure to abide by the fundamental rules of the monetary union.
This does not bode well for the world’s capacity to
confront
shared challenges, from migration to climate change.
Many challenges
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India on its path to sustained strong growth, principally that of converting the country’s vast promise into reality.
Should matters come to a head in another seismic zone of world politics – namely, East Asia – the world would
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a global catastrophe stemming from the synchronicity of numerous regional crises.
So why not help those in Iraq who are willing and able to
confront
this peril?
The point is not merely to make ourselves feel a little better, but rather to
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one of the world’s gravest threats: the widespread pessimism that today’s problems are too big to be solved.
It is time to
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alternative theories of secular stagnation with empirical evidence, as I have done.
It was mainly designed to steer internal integration; now it must
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external threats.
Yes, the economy’s long slide reflects Italian leaders’ failure to
confront
the country’s loss of competitiveness; but it is a failure that is widely shared in Europe.
The gravest threat comes from the wave of austerity sweeping the world, as governments, particularly in Europe,
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the large deficits brought on by the Great Recession, and as anxieties about some countries’ ability to meet their debt payments contributes to financial-market instability.
We cannot escape – and therefore must
confront
– the dilemma that gains from trade sometimes come at the expense of strains on domestic social arrangements.
By offering generous economic incentives to its Southeast Asian neighbors, it has weakened their will to
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China in a coalition.
On the contrary, they are poised to
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a massive youth bulge, with more than 100 million people under the age of 30 entering the domestic job market in North Africa between now and 2025.
It will also
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a growing number of issues that require power with others as much as power over others in order to obtain the country’s preferred outcomes.
While the need for fiscal unification is increasingly recognized, it is not clear whether European leaders are willing to
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its ultimate political logic head-on.
So much for using macroeconomic policies to
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the “jobs challenge.”
So, even with a key member of the American economic leadership team leaving, the world's largest economy seemingly is in very good shape to
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any of the small troubles of every day finance.
Designing a screening mechanism to minimize adverse selection in choosing bureaucrats and party officials has become one of the biggest challenges that China’s ruling elites
confront.
But they need not search too far for culprits; indeed, they need only look in the mirror and
confront
the consequences of the dishonest game that the leaders of EU member states have played for too long.
Europe need not go down this path; but, given EU leaders current failure to acknowledge and rise to the challenges they confront, it seems realistic to assume that it could happen.
Beyond Universal EducationDHAKA – As the World Education Forum meets in Incheon, South Korea, it is time to
confront
some unsettling facts about the state of education in the world today.
The people of Hong Kong continue to
confront
bravely the Goliath that threatens their values, even holding June vigils to honor the victims of the Beijing massacre – something that no mainland group would be permitted to do.
India’s politicians need to design an action plan that generates a groundswell of public pressure on the government to
confront
the issue head-on.
Two distinct quandaries
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China’s leaders: the first centers on the growing demands and dissatisfactions of Chinese society – from peasants and students to white-collar workers and pensioners; the second consists in the country’s conduct of foreign policy.
All of this speaks to why we should pity today’s policymakers, who must
confront
unusually difficult challenges with abnormally ineffective tools.
Probably the hardest truth that Britain’s Anglosphere dreamers must
confront
is that there is just no mood politically, in any of the candidate countries of which I’m aware, to build some new global association of the linguistically and culturally righteous.
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