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Japan and the Politics of GuiltCANBERRA – Japan is again alienating its neighbors and driving its friends to despair over the issue of accepting responsibility for its wartime aggression and atrocities.
Back to the Politics of Cultural DespairSome years ago the historian Fritz Stern wrote a book about Germany entitled The Politics of Cultural Despair.
The murderous triumph and bloody defeat of the politics of cultural despair was followed by an economic miracle that made Germany one of the world’s most prosperous countries, with nearly six decades of increasingly stable democracy.
The well of the House – supposedly sacrosanct – becomes a stage for opposition MPs to crowd and jostle, waving placards and chanting slogans until the speaker, after several futile attempts to restore order, adjourns in despair.
Tudor claims that only he can pull Romania out of its disorder and despair, and many are beginning to believe him.
Africa Beyond EbolaMADRID – Among this summer’s grave global worries, the spread of the Ebola virus has monopolized the discussion of Sub-Saharan Africa and reinvigorated hoary notions of disorder and despair – at a time when a new image of a dynamic Africa was emerging.
Where Obama’s strategy is weakest is in reaching ordinary people: the networked web of human relationships that transmits rage, hatred, and despair or hope, trust, and loyalty.
As someone born in the old Soviet Union, I know firsthand the despair and brutality of such attempts.
One could despair: the Bush administration has obviously wasted almost seven years during which it could have pursued a solution.
The documentary’s footage of shot-out computer screens and piles of smashed printers and cameras – under graffiti reading “Palestine Never” – makes one despair.
Behind the stock images of a region trapped in chaos and despair, economies are growing, reform is increasingly embraced, and governance is improving.
The suffering and wanton destruction of people’s lives, the despair and absence of human dignity in this region have gone on for too long.
The answer lies in Ayn Rand’s rhetorical invocation of despair in her 1957 epic Atlas Shrugged: “Who is John Galt?”Simply put, when the state seizes the incentives and drivers of capital investment, owners of capital go on strike.
In both places, I witnessed firsthand the virus’s devastating impact: suffering, fear, despair, and, ultimately, death.
In Spain, citizens were united by economic and social despair.
Trade unions, reinvigorated by the despair of marginalized middle-aged workers, will question the system’s fairness.
But, unless they have reason to believe that improvement is coming, today’s transforming dynamism will become the dynamism of despair – with all the risks that this implies.
How can the Middle East halt this downward spiral of despair and rage?
Ours is a story of great hope for the Middle East in particular, where generations of conflict and despair have driven high levels of outward migration.
All of these stories elicit horror and despair from most Nigerians.
Megacities like Mumbai, Nairobi, and Kinshasa are essentially small cities surrounded by huge slums – pockets of wealth in a sea of despair.
This is not reason for despair or grounds for acting unilaterally.
We heard personal stories of unimaginable heartbreak, pain, and despair.
We may have moments of fear in the days ahead, but we must never let despair overwhelm us.
Disrupting Climate ChangeDENVER – After a season of record-breaking hurricanes in the United States and floods across Asia, it would be easy to despair about the accelerating pace of climate change.
But don’t despair: there is still time to save our climate.
Indeed, citizens throughout the rich developed world all stand to benefit from a more prosperous globe – especially a world in which there is less poverty, with fewer people facing despair.
For we all suffer from the political instability to which such despair gives rise.
The more death, destruction, and despair, the better.
Putting Youth FirstAll of the world's current crises - conflict, HIV/AIDS, unemployment - have one thing in common: they all involve young people who are burdened by the despair of these problems, but who are also a largely untapped source of change.
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