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First, the tail risks (low-probability, high-impact events) in the global economy – a eurozone breakup, the US going over its fiscal cliff, a hard economic landing for China, a war between Israel and Iran over nuclear proliferation – are lower now than they were a year ago.
In 2012 alone, the continent experienced 99 extreme weather events, which is double the long-term average.
But the impact of sports extends far beyond major international events, as impressive they may be, to include far-reaching benefits for ordinary people.
The West is right to insist on norms of decent government, but it risks losing its capacity to influence events in Africa when it automatically links aid to elections.
But no one should leave such events thinking that anything Medvedev says means that Russia is changing.
The events in Iraq demonstrate the failure of democratic processes at the international level--and the need to strengthen them.
The Treason of the EconomistsLONDON – All epoch-defining events are the result of conjunctures – the correlation of normally unconnected events that jolt humanity out of a rut.
Such conjunctures create what the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls “Black Swans” – unpredictable events with a vast impact.
What strikes me as dangerous is that the issue of peace – the motor that has driven European integration from the start – rarely comes up in the debate about what to do in the wake of these events.
People’s reactions to these events depend on their emotions and their sense of justice.
Schmidt understood that a practical politician had to deal with events as they unfolded, managing them as astutely as possible.
But he understood instinctively that daily events were shaped by powerful trends and forces: the strategic competition between East and West, the evolving international financial system in the age of global interdependence, and the consequences of decolonization.
The events of the last twelve months have surely driven home to most people that the most dangerous conflict facing humanity in the future is not the conflict between Man and the environment, but between Man and Man.
The Arab Spring’s Balance SheetCAIRO – Last year’s events in Egypt and Tunisia drew the curtain on a tottering old order and delivered much of the Arab world into a long-awaited new era.
There are certainly some uncanny similarities between current events and that fateful time.
We could save many more lives during extreme weather events, for example, by insisting on hurricane-resistant building standards than we would by committing to Live Earth’s target of a 90% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050.
But, though the events of 1989 did not bring about perpetual peace and prosperity, they did set in motion some true success stories.
Scotching the EurozoneLONDON – Which of the following events is more likely to happen this year: Scotland votes to secede from the United Kingdom in its September referendum, or at least one country decides to leave the eurozone?
States that are eager to enjoy the trappings of great-power status – the deference accorded their diplomats, high-level global parlays abroad and important diplomatic conferences at home, and the assumption that they must be consulted on major events or crises in their regions – must accept the burdens that go with it.
The recent emergence of additional powers – the European Union, China, India, and a Russia driven to recover its lost status – has eroded America’s capacity to shape events unilaterally.
While these concerns are undoubtedly valid, the broader question is whether protesting, boycotting, or banning such events encourages or impedes social and political change.
At the same time, we should not overestimate the longer-run impact of football’s “feel-good” factor in influencing political and social events.
Our brains are primed to register such events; so on rare occasions the brain makes a mistake and reconstructs unrelated sounds (such as people talking indistinctly) into a false perception of the spoken name.
After all, as the events of 2008-9 showed, a common currency without a common government cannot be made to work.
But adopting the terrorists’ interpretation of events conceals the reality of this conflict.
One is hyperactive, responding aggressively to events.
It remains calm in the face of events, seeking at all cost to avoid doing anything that might be construed as encouraging excessive risk-taking or creating even a whiff of inflation.
Anyone who does so will find it hard to defend the ECB and its stubborn inaction in the face of events.
Recent events have further weakened market-oriented, Western-leaning factions in Russia and strengthened the state-capitalist, nationalist factions, who are now pushing for faster establishment of the EAU.
The short answer is no, notwithstanding the frightening events in Charlottesville, Virginia, this past weekend.
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