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Palestinians’ choices are limited, and there is no consensus among them on how to proceed.
The EU is nowhere near a policy consensus – the political climate does not allow for it.
For too long, politics had become a vehicle for the aspirations of various groups that felt marginalized by the cosmopolitan secular consensus developed in India under its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
The fighting has heightened instability in the region;US and European citizens are streaming into Syria to take up jihad; and there is a growing consensus that the post-World War I Middle East boundaries are coming undone.
This assumption underpinned a broad global consensus on trade rules, including the relatively consistent protection of property rights.
A lot seems to rest on a consensus about moral norms and about who is right and who is wrong.
His views represent, as much as can be expected, a consensus among those who have studied the issues carefully.
Just when the world reached a consensus that Ahmadinejad was merely an instrument of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, Ahmadinejad appointed a Vice-President against Khamenei’s wishes (though he later retracted the appointment).
It is an irony of history that just as a host of researchers around the world were developing these ideas and enhancing our understanding of the limitations of markets, international economic institutions were pushing the Washington consensus - based on market fundamentalism - which ignored market failures.
Managing greenhouse-gas emissions and global flows of drugs, arms, terrorists, and pathogens would be no easy task under the best of circumstances; it is made more difficult by a lack of consensus on what to do and a lack of will to act even when agreement exists.
But what can be accomplished is likely to be limited by countries’ domestic politics, the absence of international consensus, and the waning of US influence, which no other country is able to replace and few are willing even to support in promoting order.
Of course, Ukraine’s position may change in the future, with cultural, demographic, and economic shifts producing the needed consensus to abandon neutrality.
More fundamentally, Germany has benefited from the extraordinary culture of consensus that it developed in the post-World War II period, with social partners and political parties showing a remarkable ability to compromise.
Despite the transitional nature of so much of Russian life nowadays, a new consensus about Russian national interests is visibly emerging.
But even if either event comes to pass, some of the elements of this consensus will stick, for they reflect lasting changes in and around Russia.
On the other hand, the desire to avoid confrontation can prevent meaningful agreements from being reached in a reasonable timeframe, and the appearance of consensus may merely mask the true politics at work.
Health: Asia’s experience in dealing with SARS, bird flu, H1N1, and other diseases should be studied carefully – for both positive and negative lessons – with a view to developing a new global consensus on handling pandemics.
The first ethical hurdle is to reach a consensus on how to characterize drug resistance.
Reaching a national consensus will be a formidable task for the Constituent Assembly, and meanwhile the Nepali people cannot be expected to wait patiently until a new constitution is drafted to see real improvement in their daily lives.
But only two – trade and investment – are founded on relatively effective structures, buttressed by domestic consensus and international agreements.
In the same vein, there is a mismatch in Sarkozy’s approach to Europe between the message and the messenger, between careful diplomacy needed to create a new consensus within the European Commission and with countries like Ireland, and president’s rather authoritarian style.
Given this, China would also need to engage with the US in sustained diplomatic efforts to reach a consensus on how to stabilize the Korean Peninsula and eliminate the risk of a military conflict.
But as scientific and technological issues start to dominate global affairs, ways must be found to provide a forum for global consensus building on scientific issues.
There is a “common-sense consensus” among borrowers – in China, as well as in highly indebted advanced economies – that raising interest rates would undermine GDP growth, employment, and asset prices.
But is it possible that this consensus has emerged just as the populist wave has crested?
These rules must eventually be restored intact if Europe is to return to the path of sustainable growth, and a consensus will need to be forged now to make that happen.
Early this year, economists at the International Monetary Fund produced empirical results that seemed to upend the old consensus.
So the emerging new consensus on the harmful effects of inequality is as likely to mislead as the old one was.
There is now an overwhelming consensus that open, transparent, and accountable mechanisms of shareholder control are essential for the efficient functioning of public corporations.
While not everyone agrees on exactly what the new growth model should look like, proposals do not differ drastically, given the prevailing consensus that the current model rests on an unsustainable foundation.
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