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Even if the summit produces few specific results, it can make a difference if three demands are made of the summiteers:we should insist that the world's politicians recognize the overwhelming scientific evidence that points to the major environmental perils humanity faces;we should press these leaders to invest more public money in basic environmental research and in the development of new technologies to address environmental risks.
Similar environmental protests have evolved into demands for broader political change in other countries.
This agenda’s interventionism is incremental: tougher economic sanctions, demands that China exercise its influence, creation of a “no-fly zone,” and military force against the Sudanese army.
Both sides would be pragmatic and moderate in their demands.
One can only imagine the reaction of the US Congress, including those who wanted to keep US troops in Iraq as long as they have been in Germany or Japan, had the Obama administration agreed to Iraqi demands that US troops be subject to the Iraqi judicial system.
First, the US hopes to force Iran to cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, by bringing its nuclear program into compliance with the international community’s demands.
Such demands are not new.
What makes the demands for reform more pressing this time are ominous developments in Egypt, the region, and in the wider world.
But Mubarak has never enacted the law essential to implementing this article or appointed a vice-president, despite repeated popular demands to do so.
Demands for reform are now focused on introducing direct presidential elections with two or more contenders, and limiting presidents to two consecutive terms in office.
Should Mubarak and his government fail to recommend constitutional amendments that satisfy these demands, ever more Egyptians will desert the regime and risk their lives in search of salvation in other lands.
A half-century of working together, plus a decade and a half of adapting to new threats and demands, is paying off.
If Chinese authorities had acceded to US demands and allowed the market to determine the exchange rate, the renminbi would have depreciated further still, and US exporters would have had a harder time competing.
After the recent landmine blasts, by contrast, President Park Geun-hye would not back down from her demands that the North, which denied planting the mines, apologize.
He has been repeatedly advised that his promised “re-negotiation” of Britain’s EU membership cannot yield any substantial results; so he should opt for a vote before the end of this year, thereby preempting the humiliation implied by rejection of Britain’s demands by almost all other EU governments.
Indeed, inaction in Iraq will not only postpone the inevitable reckoning with the past; it may prolong the past, as unfulfilled demands for justice fuel frustration, resentment, and support for extremist leaders and authoritarian solutions.
When negotiating with a country, the IMF ordinarily demands conditions of its government and central bank.
They cannot be, because religious authority demands obedience to divine power, which by definition is not open to rational challenge.
The protectionist responses are sadly familiar: protests against foreign workers, demands for trade protection, and a financial nationalism that seeks to limit the flow of money across national frontiers.
To address developing countries’ high currency demands, while enhancing their role in the creation of international money, a formula could be created to give them a larger share in SDR allocations than they now receive.
The key will be so-called “second-round effects” – whether growing crude prices lead to higher wage demands from trade unions.
The Great BacklashNEW YORK – In the immediate aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, policymakers’ success in preventing the Great Recession from turning into Great Depression II held in check demands for protectionist and inward-looking measures.
They are all caught between the problems of the present and the mistakes of the past: in Europe, between institutions designed to avoid inflation when the problem is growth and employment; in America, between massive household and government debt and the demands of fiscal and monetary policy; and everywhere, between America’s failure to use the world’s scarce natural resources wisely and its failure to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East.
Meanwhile, in the absence of a crisis that demands political attention, all of the problems and risks that Germany’s previous coalition governments have failed to address will continue to be ignored.
New technology will determine our lifestyle, and the demands that we make on energy and environmental resources.
Today, despite the Keynesian revolution, the same question demands an answer.
Ringo also heads the Apollo Alliance , a coalition of trade unions, environmentalist groups, managers, and local politicians that demands clean energy and good jobs.
As countries turn inward, amid rising nationalism and intolerance, responsive leadership demands that we listen to the underlying message and act accordingly.
Piketty argues that this bifurcation of the elite has insulated the political system from redistributive demands.
To China (and Russia), it signaled the futility of falling in line with US demands against an ally and the pointlessness of engaging in tough multi-party negotiations over several years.
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