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Syria’s deepening crisis, and the criminal use of chemical weapons there, has created a similar dynamic and dilemma.
This development dilemma points to the third factor: ineffectual politics.
This might be a way round the majority voting dilemma, since it would allow groups of member states to cooperate together in particular areas, without waiting for the unanimous agreement of all partners.
But are we really in the throes of a Frankenstein’s dilemma, in which our own creations come back to haunt us?
But the common dilemma facing all sides in this negotiation, the ins as well as the outs, is to make sure that there are not too many losers in any one country.
As for the West, it is confronted with a dilemma.
A multicultural coalition is probably a requirement of legitimate military action in the Middle East; the dilemma is that unless Obama’s regional coalition broadens considerably, his current allies’ enthusiasm for US military intervention is likely to diminish quickly.
The Pentagon ran a military base there until 2005, when Uzbekistan’s regime massacred a crowd of peaceful protesters, presenting the US government with a dilemma: look the other way and keep the base, or speak up and be kicked out.
Indeed, China’s dilemma is emblematic of one of developing Asia’s greatest challenges: the need to tilt the growth model away from external toward internal demand.
Contrary to popular belief, the true global trade dilemma of our time is not so much liberalization versus protectionism, but the rights of capital versus the rights of people.
The lesson is that revolutionaries confront an impossible dilemma after seizing state power.
For its part, the US must recognize the correlation between its declining interest and influence in the Middle East and Israel’s current dilemma.
Israel’s Missing Peace OffensiveTEL AVIV – Even before the latest cease-fire took hold, it had become clear that the dilemma facing Israel in Gaza entails more than simply developing military answers to the challenge posed by Hamas.
For even if we believe that buyers and sellers of organs can in principle enter the transaction on the basis of free choice, none of them has chosen to face the underlying dilemma in the first place.
The nature of that dilemma makes it impossible to predict what he will do next.
The dilemma is that poor countries lack the means to connect all places to all inputs.
The German leader Otto von Bismarck confronted a similar dilemma when he presided over German unification in the nineteenth century.
So now Xi faces a dilemma.
And now China faces a dilemma.
The dilemma that officials face is that the impact of a fall in exports as a result of RMB appreciation will be felt acutely and immediately, whereas the large welfare losses due to the evaporation of the value of China’s foreign-exchange reserves will be borne by society as a whole – but not immediately.
Now, in the run-up to the European Council summit on 11-12 December, expectations are growing that Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen will provide a clear roadmap for an Irish solution to the EU’s constitutional dilemma.
In the meantime, the US and Europe face a policy dilemma.
Indeed, Europe’s finance ministries face a dilemma over how much of their stretched national budgets to allocate to the military; and European defense officials must somehow ensure that precious funding is spent in the most efficient manner.
The dilemma is that playing it safe--by treating every flu-like illness with the precautions appropriate for SARS--would present an enormous logistical, operational and financial burden to health care systems.
Humanity must begin to resolve this water dilemma.
The reaction of Boot, and others of his persuasion, points to a genuine dilemma that always occurs in authoritarian systems that use some semblance of democracy to bolster their legitimacy.
The resolution of Chen’s dilemma shows that standing up for human rights will gain the grudging respect of China’s leadership and citizenry.
The dilemma is that any depreciation of sterling increases the level of imported inflation that is not offset by spare capacity in the economy.
Moreover, there is another dilemma: the output gap.
Snowden did not create the security-privacy dilemma, but he did illuminate a deeply rooted problem that Western leaders have long tried to obscure.
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