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Recent events in three countries have highlighted the importance of this question.
The events in Belgrade have provided another moment for that too-long-postponed debate on the larger goals of European integration to take place.
Many Muslims living in the West are also watching events in the region closely, hoping that their co-religionists will soon enjoy greater rights, freedoms, and protections under the rule of law, much as they have done for many decades.
But, given recent events, it is now they who bear the burden of proof.
Latin America’s Tale of Two CrisesMEXICO CITY – If one were an irredeemable optimist, upcoming events in Venezuela and Colombia could be viewed as a harbinger of good things to come.
The long-suppressed ideas and energies unleashed by events like the Arab Spring must mature before having their full effect on society.
How much influence these “fronts” actually had on events is hard to know.
Before January, this sequence of events was quite likely, but the ECB’s bond-buying program put a firebreak at each point of the contagion process.
Events can create politicians.
Events have similarly transformed Merkel from a cautiously calculating and often-slow decision-maker into a moral force.
In fact, events in today’s Middle East continue to be shaped by the radical changes brought about after World War I. Previously, most Arabs had been grouped together under various caliphates.
Consider that even with a rise of only 0.8ºC so far, the planet has experienced record-high temperatures, more extreme weather events, and substantial melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which contains enough water to cause a seven-meter rise in sea levels.
Such catastrophic events underscore the vulnerability of coastal regions worldwide to extreme weather events that produce intense storm surges (increased water depth at the coast) and large, powerful waves.
In addition, construction in coastal areas damaged by extreme events could be prohibited, as has been done in Hilo, Hawaii.
Coastal regions are the most vulnerable to many kinds of extreme weather events.
But those historic contexts shed light on Japan's response to events in Iraq and the wider world today.
The brief appearance of Iran’s disputed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have gained all the headlines, but China’s announcement of a $10 billion fund to support the budgets of financially distressed ex-Soviet states, which followed hard on a $3 billion investment in Turkmenistan and a $10 billion investment in Kazakhstan, provides more evidence that China now wants to shape events across Eurasia.
The most creative breakthroughs became famous events.
Since the outbreak of this crisis, they have repeatedly been forced by events to push European integration further than they had initially envisaged.
As events in Pakistan illustrate, the spread of nuclear technology does not extend the stability that comes with mutual deterrence.
From the dramatic events in the Middle East, to the groundswell of support for the anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare in India, leaders in emerging markets are getting a clear message from the streets that growth is not everything.
Some governments have reacted to recent events with political repression, information blackouts, or a combination of authoritarian measures.
As the past year’s events have shown, the costs of inaction could be calamitous.
Many people have inferred from this sequence of events that US banks – which are critical to both the American and world economies – are now out of trouble.
At one level, these events are nationally-specific and coincidental.
At a deeper level, these events are closely related.
While this approach would do little to reduce the number of small events, such as “routine” bombings or political assassinations, it would significantly impede the spectacular attacks that involve a large amount of planning and resources.
And yet, despite the unprecedented and unforeseeable nature of events – or perhaps because of it – hope ran high.
Whatever America’s Republican Party tries to claim during the 2016 presidential election campaign, Obama’s policy of engagement has worked, enabling the US to shape events in even the most closed countries.
Economists call such events “shocks” precisely because they come unexpectedly and can have far-reaching consequences.
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