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The good news is that a genuine – and unprecedented – global consensus has emerged over the last ten years: State sovereignty is not a license to kill.
Rebuilding consensus within the Security Council is not impossible, but it will take time.
If South Africa sees itself as speaking for Africa on the global stage and creating a vision for the continent’s future, it must know when to lead and how to build consensus.
Throughout my premiership, I kept a quote of hers in mind: “I am not a consensus politician;I am a conviction politician.”
By contrast, the Chinese statement says only that the two countries will work together to reach a consensus on trade issues.
And while it goes without saying that economists have many ingenious explanations to offer, none has yet proved persuasive enough to create a consensus.
North Korea has flouted the strong international consensus against the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
The emerging consensus is that people and communities displaced by these forces should be compensated, perhaps even with an unconditional basic income.
Yet it did not take long for a consensus explanation of these miscalculations to emerge.
The current consensus blames the “elites” – in academia, media, and business – for becoming so caught up in their relatively cosmopolitan and connected world that they failed to listen carefully to less educated and connected groups.
There is also a strong Indonesian tradition of resolving disagreements through “musyawarah dan mufakat” (consultation and consensus).
In practice, though, this will not happen, as these countries lack the capabilities, experience, and, above all, a consensus on what needs doing and who needs to do it.
A consensus is emerging that the gap between the US economy's growth potential and its actual performance will remain large for some time to come.
One reason is that inequality undercuts the political and social consensus around growth-oriented strategies and policies.
Nonetheless, whenever a crisis loomed in the last century, the broad consensus among economists was that it did not.
But his rather technical discussion (which focused on monetary economics and the gold standard) forged no new consensus among economists, and the news media reported no clear sense of alarm.
Likewise, most economists devote their efforts to issues far removed from establishing a consensus outlook for the stock market or the unemployment rate.
The interrogation of the one surviving terrorist, and evidence from satellite telephone intercepts and other intelligence, has led to an emerging international consensus that the attacks were masterminded by the Wahhabi-inspired Lashkar-e-Taiba, a terrorist group once patronized, protected and trained by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as a useful instrument in their country’s proxy war against India in Kashmir.
Since then the broad consensus in the US has been that cyclical economic distress requires the use of budget deficits to ameliorate suffering, stimulate aggregate demand, and hasten recovery.
Achieving that goal will require a new consensus between Northern and Southern Europe, led by Germany and France.
It is based on bottom-up consensus, fosters a collective sense of management, and stresses the promotion of trust and international cooperation.
In Germany, there has been a broad consensus for a stability union, but not for a transfer or liability union.
This is good, because only then will a reliable democratic consensus on Europe’s future be reached.
Given this, rather than parting ways with the other parties that helped to negotiate the agreement, the US should be seeking a consensus on what would constitute an Iranian breakout, in order to help guide the inspections conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Much as the Washington Consensus focused on financial liberalization, deregulation, free capital movements, privatization, and stable macroeconomic policy as the keys to development, today’s political consensus is on free elections and the political empowerment of the hitherto oppressed, without sufficient attention being paid to the institutional underpinnings of democracy, such as a functioning judicial system, an infrastructure of political parties, and other constitutional arrangements.
The economic Washington consensus took for granted the presence of institutions necessary for functioning free-markets or assumed that once government intervention was removed such institutions would emerge.
The broad Keynesian consensus that emerged immediately after the crisis has become today’s prevailing economic dogma: as long as growth remains substandard and annual inflation remains below 2%, more stimulus is deemed not just appropriate, but necessary.
Indeed, with the exception of the London summit in April 2009, when a consensus was reached on joint monetary and fiscal stimulus, the G-20 has become just another bureaucratic forum where much is discussed, but little is agreed upon.
Likewise, there is very little consensus on how to reform the regulation and supervision of financial institutions – and even less on how to reform an international monetary system based on flexible exchange rates and the dollar’s central role as the leading reserve currency.
Third, the Western powers now lack the domestic political consensus and financial resources to advance an international agenda.
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