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This new reality also demands a different type of diplomacy – one that recognizes the diverse interests of the continent.
This will increase demands for more regulation and heavy government involvement in the economy, so as to bring unruly and untrustworthy capitalists under greater control.
And, third, the US should support the demands of Latin American countries for a greater say in international institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
As the late political scientist Samuel Huntington put it more than 40 years ago, “social and economic change – urbanization, increases in literacy and education, industrialization, mass media expansion – extend political consciousness, multiply political demands, broaden political participation.”
When a country’s political institutions are mature, they respond to demands from below through a combination of accommodation, response, and representation.
When they are under-developed, they shut those demands out in the hope that they will go away – or be bought off by economic improvements.
As Asia creates the world’s largest middle class – projected to grow more than three-fold, from 500 million to 1.75 billion, by 2020 – it will also have to cope with demands for more competent and more accountable governments.
As China’s urban sprawl increasingly turns what once had been short, simple trips into long, dangerous odysseys, managing such demands is requiring a growing proportion of the government’s attention.
Meanwhile, Japan’s political system, like many others around the world, must reconcile domestic demands with diplomatic relationship-building – no easy feat, as rising nationalism raises suspicions among the country’s neighbors.
Critics point to the string of economic crises in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in recent years, often attributing them to multilateral lenders' demands for full liberalization of foreign trade and capital flows, privatization, and fiscal austerity.
Historically, few autocrats have understood that change produced peacefully by government is the most viable conservative solution to popular demands, and the best way to avoid violent revolution.
By incurring debt, states trade an element of sovereignty – the flexibility to alter course over time in response to the electorate’s demands – for the ability to fund expenditures without being compelled to navigate the political minefield of raising taxes.
The SDGs will have to integrate these concerns with the demands of the growing global middle class, the effects of shifting political and economic power, and the challenges of environmental sustainability, including climate change.
Europe, however, demands greater assimilation and offers a less porous economy and politics.
It speaks to none of the barriers to participation or to immigrant responses to them, but demands symbolic assimilation.
But such demands are a dead end.
Both fundamentalism and the demands of assimilation — be like us, now! — pre-empt these mechanisms.
But Europe demands assimilation before participation in an economy that immigrants can’t get into anyway.
Nor is it always the case that mainstream parties can cut off support for extremists by selectively coopting their complaints and demands.
To ensure that its labor force can meet the demands of a rapidly changing economic and technological environment, China must build a more inclusive, higher quality education system.
To meet these challenges, EU leaders will have to build a strong constituency by directly addressing Europeans’ needs and demands.
From Liberia to the Congo, the predicament of the African continent today demands that the press act not only as a watchdog, but as a goad.
It demands both the attention and the contribution of anyone concerned with the future of knowledge.
But, they fear that calling for spending cuts will be unpopular, unlike, they hope, demands to balance the budget.
Building a robust private sector capable of fostering inclusive growth, creating jobs, and broadening the domestic revenue base demands improved access to finance for micro, small, and medium-size enterprises.
Then came the pointless provocation of refusing talks with the troika, despite the fact that the three institutions are all much more sympathetic to Greek demands than the German government.
It seemed the urge to collaborate actually ran ahead of the party's demands.
After all, why should workers and unions moderate wage demands if governments will boost spending whenever high unemployment looms?
Unions would bow to government requests to moderate their demands for wage increases, and governments would bow to union demands for public spending and social insurance.
Addressing climate change demands a paradigm shift on a scale akin to that required to end the Cold War.
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