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The borders of the kingdom cannot be sealed to ideas and from the desire for change, with people avidly watching Al Jazeera – officially banned in Saudi Arabia – as it reports about elections in Kuwait and democratic debates in other Gulf countries.
That reflects a recurring tendency in official policy debates, particularly in the eurozone, to concentrate on fixable problems to the exclusion of more difficult issues.
Both Britain and France are having vigorous debates about how to change their economic models.
But there are also more similarities than might be evident from the debates and the campaign.
But, more importantly, Sarkozy’s choice of Strauss-Kahn is a crucial stand in today’s global economic debates.
Policy debates in the US and elsewhere have been turned inside out since the crisis – with potentially devastating consequences.
Its members will engage in all of the same professionally choreographed and well-rehearsed debates, the ritualistic display of legislative process that devalues parliament because the outcome is pre-determined.
Unfortunately, today’s debates about banking reform have just this character.
Indeed, ignorance about what is actually at risk makes debates about the right formula for capital buffers surreal.
At the time, he was engaged in heated debates about International Monetary Fund interventions in East Asia.
In recent years, debates about how to govern the digital economy have intensified.
These debates will only become more urgent in the coming years.
And that implies an extended period of episodic economic disruption and political upheaval far beyond this summer’s debates on America’s debt ceiling and Europe’s distressed sovereign debtors.
These debates represent just one round in an ongoing struggle, with vast political and economic consequences for years to come.
And while plenty of problems still need to be addressed, they are often not the ones that occupy our thoughts and public debates.
These are serious economic debates, but too often they have become entangled in ideological disputes about the appropriate response to the economic crisis and the value of government intervention in markets.
Mark Carney, the Bank of Canada’s current governor, who is set to take over as the governor of the Bank of England (BoE) in July, is already making his presence felt in British monetary-policy debates.
While the impact of Abenomics on Japan’s economy remains to be seen, its impact on debates about monetary policy and the relationship between central banks and governments is already becoming apparent.
But such debates largely stopped in the twentieth century, partly because they challenged democracy’s universality.
Meanwhile, over the course of three televised presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate, climate change, the signature issue of our time and the most serious problem confronting our planet, was not mentioned even once.
When Populism Comes Home to RoostROME – Debates about the euro usually contain proposals for complex financial arrangements to build “resilience” against the next economic shock.
Indians know that they can use other means – debates in Parliament, political alliance-making, and eventually the ballot box – to bring about the changes they desire.
Montreal is a relatively successful example of a city in which Anglophones and Francophones both feel at home, but language debates nonetheless dominate the political scene – and structure an ethos for the city’s residents.
Today, having engaged in toxic debates and played politics with the lives of the world’s most vulnerable people to win votes, they share the blame again.
Yes, one can debate about the third way, or the two and a half way, or the three and a half way, but these are essentially marginal debates.
The twentieth century was a criminal century, in terms of its ideological debates and political expression.
In China, where internal debates are carefully scripted, nothing happens by accident.
By contrast, presidential debates in the United States are more like staged performances, where the answers to every possible question have been rehearsed endlessly with teams of coaches and advisers.
The candidates in US debates address carefully selected journalists who rarely follow up on a question.
In his debates with Ronald Reagan in 1980, Jimmy Carter came across as smug and humorless, and Reagan as a friendly old uncle.
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