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But the public often views interest-rate increases as negative events that increase unemployment and stifle growth.
The events that started in Taksim Square are specific to Turkey, but they mirror aspirations that are universal.
Things in Iraq may not be as bad as the daily news of bomb attacks make events there sound; but it is clear that there will be no lasting progress towards a liberal order in that country without basic security.
But recent events at the European Central Bank, in Germany, and in global financial markets, make it worthwhile to consider a favorable scenario for the common currency’s future.
Fortunately, several upcoming events offer an opportunity to do just that.
We need to build an arc of ambition across these events that can, in the words of our friend Tony de Brum, the late Marshallese foreign minister and untiring climate warrior at the Paris conference, deliver a pathway to survival for the most vulnerable.
As such weather events become increasingly frequent and intense, the need to mitigate and adapt to climate change is becoming more urgent than ever.
And make no mistake: These events are, at least partly, the result of climate change.
As the climate scientist Kevin Trenberth of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research points out, nowadays, “[a]ll weather events are affected by climate change, because the environment in which they occur is warmer and moister than it used to be.”
To be sure, this complex web of interconnected events reflects the declining global role of the US.
This also fuels opposition to government intervention, and to “stimulus” policies, which are supposedly redundant, if not harmful, since the events that require them cannot happen (but do).
Catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina have reinforced this stance.
As the latest research shows, it would have a dramatic and measurable impact on extreme weather events, water availability, crop yields, coral-reef degradation, and sea-level rise.
We saw this before in the events precipitating the financial crises that engulfed emerging markets in the late 1990’s.
Events have certainly moved at a brisk pace in recent months, with one obstacle after another to a lasting deal seeming to come down.
Such an impressive sequence of events has not been seen for a long time in that troubled region.
Asia’s Month of MilestonesCANBERRA – For grand strategy buffs, this has been quite a month, with several events looking like the kind of turning points that will consume future historians.
Recent events – the growing number of high-level defections from the regime’s leadership, the killing of three of President Bashar al-Assad’s most senior officials in a bomb attack, and the rebellion’s spread into Damascus itself – suggest that, after a long period of gradual decline, the Assad regime is now approaching collapse or implosion.
Inspired by the events taking place in Charlottesville, advocates have emerged in Britain seeking to pull Admiral Nelson off his famous column on Trafalgar Square in London, because the British naval hero supported the slave trade.
“However fixed our likes and dislikes may seem, the tide of time and events will often bring surprising changes in the relations between nations and neighbors.”
And, as the US and the broader international community attempt to address the unfolding events, it would be a mistake to leave the peace process off the agenda.
The events in East Timor in 1999 remain fresh in memory, and difficulties linger.
Recent events in Georgia remind us that resolving the region's "frozen conflicts"- i.e., those in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, of Transdneistria in Moldova, and Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan - must be a priority.
To wait until events in Europe force them into line has turned out to be a bad strategy.
On this issue, the Bush administration wasted eight precious years during which we have gotten perilously close to the point at which an irreversible chain of events could occur that leads to catastrophe.
But it is an erratic, not an automatic, dominance, and depends more on domestic politics than world events.
While sports like running are relatively inexpensive, others – including gymnastics, swimming, and even more so team games and equestrian events – require significant resources.
The events of 2007-2009 made it clear that there were serious gaps and inconsistencies that needed to be addressed.
Depending on the outcome of events in Syria, many wonder about the fate of that country’s vibrant Christian community.
Reading the opinion pages, there is a sense that the world is facing a malaise that exceeds any individual events, and that people are becoming increasingly – and dangerously – divided.
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