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In the Middle East, the tragic conflict in Syria continues, despite several fruitless attempts at rapprochement, which were marred by the fundamental disagreement about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s future role in any peace process or political transition.
But NATO’s priorities this year include a sweeping review of its own strategic purpose, something the alliance has not questioned since 1999, while the EU continues to struggle towards its goal of forging a European defense policy worthy of the name.
As the recovery continues and the memory of the financial crisis grows faint, the appetite for regulatory change dissipates.
As long as the EU’s life-threatening political crisis continues, its financial crisis will continue to destabilize it.
So the death rattle of the French economic model continues.
Southeast Asia in recent decades has shown, and continues to show, remarkably steady growth and achievement.
Official production statistics are unreliable, but the drop in output has been far greater in Ukraine than in Russia, and it continues in 1996.
The message of hate continues to appeal to many people, including a few who are ready to resort to violence.
If it continues, Brexit could, as the doomsayers warn, be the EU’s downfall.
And it seems to me that, if gridlock continues into 2013, the odds are 60% that it will tip the US back into recession.
But this success, and the stability it brings, will be temporary if corruption continues, like corrosive acid, to eat away at the economy and the state.
That could happen in the US if Washington continues to favor policies that condone the reckless excesses of the recent past and inhibit the deleveraging and balance-sheet repair that America’s zombie consumers now need for post-crisis healing.
So far, the grand bargain between the core and the periphery has held up: the periphery continues austerity and reform while the core remains patient and provides financing.
Moreover, a system of mass incarceration that continues to target African-Americans has historically served a triple function.
If encouraging voters to think again about the biggest political decision of their lifetimes continues to be treated as an affront to democracy, the UK will lose its only safeguard against permanent self-harm.
If the situation continues until the end of the year, which cannot be ruled out, many more countries could experience serious banking crises.
But that shift can happen in two ways: a soft landing, in which China continues to grow at the slower-but-sustainable trend rate, or a hard landing, involving a financial crisis and more severe economic recession.
This understanding of international competitiveness continues to motivate a wide range of policy initiatives, including industrial policies to create and defend “national champions” and support a variety of so-called strategic industries.
In theory, at least, China’s rapid growth, if it continues, offers southern Africa a highly promising economic opportunity, not least by underpinning commodity prices and thus boosting southern Africa’s terms of trade.
There is little reason to believe that, as long as China continues to pursue market opening and structural reforms, its average annual growth rate over the next 15 years will fall below 5%, as some have predicted.
The longer Israel, cheered on by the wrong European friends, continues to humiliate the Palestinians and occupy their lands, the more likely it will be that hatred and violence will stand in the way of compromise, without which there can be no peace.
In the United States, nearly half the country continues to suffer from drought, while heavy rainfall has broken records in the Northeast, devastated crops in the South, and now is inundating Colorado.
It is the responsibility of all stakeholders – including governments, regulators, banks, and civil society – to ensure that microfinance continues to be part of the solution.
And the US continues to be the largest foreign investor on the continent.
The risk premium on Greek government bonds continues to hover around three percentage points, depriving Greece of much of the benefit of euro membership – namely, being able to refinance government bonds at the official discount rate.
Thus the black market grows ever bigger and the state's ability to carry out its most basic services continues to diminish.
Yet growth continues to be painfully slow.
And Russia, despite a very well educated population, continues to be reliant on commodity industries for economic growth.
But as long as it continues to hold and abuse prisoners without giving them a fair trial, America’s professed ideals will continue to sound to the rest of the world like the deepest hypocrisy.
A fragile ceasefire remains in place in most parts of the contested region, but fighting continues to break out in some areas, and many worry that a new Russian-backed offensive could soon be launched around the strategic port of Mariupol.
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