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In their excellent book The Internationalists, Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro describe how the idealistic 1928 Briand-Kellogg Pact and its successors dramatically reduced wars of conquest, not by confronting aggressors militarily but by denying them recognition of sovereignty over their ill-gotten gains.
Breaking the cycle will not be easy, but there is no other way to address many of the most pressing problems confronting China’s economy.
By drawing on these principles, countries, regions, states, and businesses can move faster to tackle the climate challenge confronting us all.
That logic would make sense if the EU were confronting a non-democratically elected government, like that of North Korea or Cuba.
Confronting the UN's Anti-Human Rights LobbyUN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson is to be replaced by the Brazilian Sergio Vieira de Mello, a longtime UN diplomat, on September 12 th .
But replicating Modi’s success in Gujarat at the national level and confronting other development challenges will require cooperation from state governments, which is uncertain at best.
Given the risks confronting Europe, not to mention Trump’s isolationist tendencies, the Franco-German relationship will assume greater regional and global importance.
Not surprisingly, then, the US is finding it hard to accept the clear global limits that it is confronting.
Confronting it effectively will require the support of all NPT signatories.
Turkey is currently confronting the limits of its possibilities, while the EU finds that it can do very little in this region without Turkey.
Confronting Africa’s Water ChallengeABIDJAN – Water is essential for life, and yet it is scarce in many parts of the world.
There have been hints that this impulse still exists – notably, the Iranian nuclear deal – but they remain inadequate to the challenges confronting the world.
We need resolute action to address the uncertainty confronting the global economy and to chart a path toward self-sustaining recovery and job creation.
But the magnitude of the challenges confronting Europe implies an urgent need for far more decisive reforms.
Instead of confronting a (usually hostile) Russian/Soviet empire on its border, a vast swath of buffer states appeared after 1991.
These findings will surprise only those who buy into the narrative that the West is confronting a large-scale xenophobic revolt against the elites.
Europe, the US, and Russia are confronting a range of significant issues today.
How Europe Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Love PowerPARIS – US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker may have averted a trade war last month, but the challenges confronting the European Union are far from resolved.
Confronting the growing challenge means that humanity can no longer afford to ignore the inexhaustible resource found in the organic material that the sun provides each day through photosynthesis.
It’s the kind of question that tends to bring out the bureaucrat in even the most direct of communicators, as one feels obliged to explain the complexity of the challenges confronting humanity: how no imperative can be singled out over other goals; how the struggle for peace, the fight against poverty, and the battle to eradicate disease must all be waged side by side; and so on – mind-numbingly.
Governments are often confronting the challenge with courage and determination, and the use of African forces in many countries to try to keep peace is a tribute to that resolve.
Americans increasingly understand that confronting domestic problems and challenges often involves painful tradeoffs.
The origin of the universal banking system goes back to a situation facing the 19th century Germany that was in some ways similar to that confronting the transition economies today: the financial needs of the rapidly growing heavy industries which -- in the face of the underdeveloped capital markets in Germany-- could only be met by commercial banks, many of which were founded by industrial leaders themselves.
This led to a temporary reduction in the financial strains confronting the debt endangered countries on the eurozone’s periphery (Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Ireland), sharply lowered the risk of a liquidity run in the eurozone banking system, and cut financing costs for Italy and Spain from their unsustainable levels of last fall.
Confronting the Migrant Threat to the EUMADRID – The European Union loves giving itself ultimatums, whether it is the two-year deadline for Brexit negotiations or European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s declaration, upon taking office, that his was a “last-chance commission.”
Xi may be confronting the most difficult domestic agenda: an effort to engineer a relatively smooth transition from an economic structure based on manufacturing and exports to one in which domestic consumption and services fuel growth.
In some sense, his sudden death seems to symbolize the helplessness of a desperate leader confronting overwhelming challenges.
How to Be a MisleaderLONDON – Under President Donald Trump, the United States seems to find itself confronting an extraordinarily ego-driven administration.
But by putting them forward, and confronting them with reality, we learn something about the world.
When confronting this kind of disorder, committed multilateralists will have to stay focused on defending the most critical aspects of the international system.
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