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Underinvesting in ResilienceNEW YORK – The hurricane on America’s eastern seaboard last week (which I experienced in lower Manhattan) adds to a growing collection of extreme weather events from which lessons should be drawn.
Climate experts have long argued that the frequency and magnitude of such events are increasing, and evidence of this should certainly influence precautionary steps – and cause us to review such measures regularly.
That seems clearly wrong: Numerous expert estimates indicate that built-in redundancy pays off unless one assigns unrealistically low probabilities to disruptive events.
We have a tendency to underestimate both the probabilities and consequences of what in the investment world are called “left-tailed events.”
The current scandal’s impact on Obama’s image increasingly resembles the impact of the Watergate scandal on President Richard Nixon’s standing in the 1970’s – only now the events are playing themselves out on a global stage.
With Le Pen in charge, that relationship will almost certainly suffer, driving events in a dangerous direction.
But now, facing China’s rise, India’s dynamism, Africa’s soaring populations and economic stirrings, Russia’s refusal to bend to its will, its own inability to control events in the Middle East, and Latin America’s determination to be free of its de facto hegemony, US power has reached its limits.
On the contrary, many of them, their reputations under water, have doubled down on those beliefs, apparently in the hope that events will, for once, break their way, and that people might thus be induced to forget their abysmal forecasting track record.
Historians have long emphasized the importance of such “path dependence” – that events in the distant past continue to shape outcomes in the present.
And to guarantee that the facility is large enough to deal with global liquidity events such as that of 2008-2009, the IMF will need access to more resources, whether via market borrowing by the Fund or other means.
An unfortunate chain of political events in Russia, or insufficient care by NATO in its handling of Russian interests and sensitivities could contribute to the strengthening of a "Versailles Treaty" syndrome in Russia.
Not only have they contributed substantially less to climate change; they are also suffering its worst effects, including food shortages and the loss of livelihoods, brought about by increasingly extreme and frequent weather events like floods and droughts.
Western policy is at a crossroads: commentary or action; shaping events or reacting to them.
Yet the United States has refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol, which does little to change the long-term course of events on the planet, since it calls for only small steps up to the year 2012.
It then struck a reasonable balance by inviting people who want to learn more about “the science behind genetics and race” to attend other upcoming events at the museum.
The speakers at these events will presumably have better credentials than Watson to discuss topics like race and intelligence.
As Americans and other Westerners increasingly perceive China as a country unable to address its political problems and addicted to growth at all costs, the Chinese government appears to be reverting to a national narrative of victimization that has poisonous roots in China’s perception of historical events such as the 1899-1901 Boxer rebellion.
Growth is weakening in many countries, risks are mounting, and uncertainty has intensified, owing especially to events in Europe.
While international attention has been understandably focused on events in Darfur, Somalia and Zimbabwe, countries across the continent including Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique and Liberia have been quietly turning their economies around.
As a junior officer accompanying him to commercial events, I was often privy to his comments about some of his Washington interlocutors: “a mile wide and an inch deep,” was how he described a very senior member of the Carter administration at the time.
These activities raise the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which in turn has many effects: a rise in average temperature, a rise in the water level of the oceans, significant changes in the global patterns of rainfall, and an increase in "extreme weather events" such as hurricanes and droughts.
Unless these studies are done, poor countries might find themselves continuing victims of worsening climatic shocks, such as severe hurricanes, droughts, and flooding, without realizing that the events are not accidental, but the result of long-term patterns of global energy use.
This was her approach with the Monica Lewinsky scandal – which is predictably rearing its head again, as Lewinsky has come forward (we can’t know the machinations that may have been behind that timing) to muse on old events.
We saw the same conservative instinct at work with the first reactions to the events in Tunisia, and then in Egypt.
State-funded cultural programs strengthen "welfare democracy" even more, while the economic and symbolic importance of sporting events has led to state intervention that increasingly organizes athletic training along the lines of the public school system.
And the same challenge hides behind the formula of “inclusion of the Taliban” in any settlement for Afghanistan, because the Taliban have no bargaining power without Pakistan, as recent events have shown.
Ever since the historic events of 1989-1991 changed Europe forever, each of us has been involved in Euro-Atlantic security, both inside and outside of government.
Given its emphasis on iron laws of political and economic development, a dialectical-materialist worldview means that there is nothing random about world events.
The events were momentous, owing both to large and actively engaged audiences (more than a thousand in Yangon), and to the thoughtful and moving presentations by two world-famous Burmese economists who had left the country in the 1960’s and were back for their first visit in more than four decades.
Amid this perfect storm of economic challenges, there are also growing questions about whether Chinese President Xi Jinping has as strong a grip on events as he would like everyone to think.
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