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Whatever happens, we can be sure that with every passing day, Putin will become increasingly preoccupied with his existential quandary: What next?
Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
“When a regime’s legitimacy is derived from its performance,” he argues, “any crisis – and how the party responds to it – can raise existential questions about the regime’s right to rule.”
On its own, terrorism is hardly an existential threat.
In a paper published prior to the release of their much-debated book The Israel Lobby, they argued:“… Iran’s nuclear ambitions do not pose an existential threat to the US.
Contrary to what Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu believes, the main existential threat facing the country is not a nuclear-armed Iran.
Rather, it will emerge from a concept that addresses existential needs.
Likewise, Europe’s latest existential identity crisis is again creating a great deal of policy uncertainty and unpredictability.
And the greatest existential threat humanity faces would be realized.
And Turkey views the PKK as an existential threat, and regards the PYD as its Syrian lethal appendage.
Yet we latter-day Easter Islanders seem unaware of this existential threat, preferring to build statues rather than sustainable systems for survival.
That is why trade unionists were the first through the gates of Dachau, and why Poland’s Solidarity movement posed an existential threat to Communist power throughout the former Soviet bloc.
In their desperate pursuit of contentment, the French express a profound existential malaise.
Although Europe remains mired in crisis and existential self-doubt, and Japan is still finding its feet after two decades of economic stagnation, the US is as relevant as ever.
But, despite stark differences, there are areas of existential common interest.
But none should distract attention from the important goal of identifying a new policy framework, based on existential common interests, that can stop the downward spiral in relations and stabilize Euro-Atlantic security.
The recent controversial bailout deal – likened by some to the 1919 Versailles Treaty, with Greece in the role of Germany – offers the latest twist in the eurozone’s existential saga.
Although the pressure from financial markets has moderated, for now, a long-term resolution to the crisis remains an existential priority for the EU.
General Motors, faced with an existential crisis, has sought to transform its business model.
More recently, NYU social psychologist John Jost has argued that “ideologies and other belief systems grow out of an attempt to satisfy the epistemic, existential, and relational needs of our species.”
Unlike Iran’s support for Hezbollah in Lebanon and other forms of terrorism, which Israel can manage, the nuclear question represents an existential threat.
The migration crisis poses an existential threat to the EU.
Post-Shutdown AmericaWASHINGTON, DC – After 16 days of closed museums, half-empty federal buildings, unnaturally quiet streets, and tens of thousands of workers left in existential limbo, the lights are back on in Washington.
That pits it against Saudi Arabia and countries like the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Jordan, whose rulers view such movements as an existential threat, with some, including the House of Saud, investing in propping up autocratic regimes like their own.
A globalized community that neutralizes the influence of nationalism, he rightly believes, is vital to enable us to confront existential threats like climate change and nuclear conflict.
Since the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum and US President Donald Trump’s election last year, populism has posed an existential threat to the European Union.
Israel also views Iran’s nuclear program as an existential threat.
Neither poses an existential threat to the other.
Macron’s melding of the left and right has created something of an existential dilemma for France’s traditional political parties, which are now struggling for survival.
But, for a country that has had little faith in deterrence when it comes to existential nuclear threats, relying on it now would mark a new, uncomfortable bet.
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