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At any rate, both sides convinced themselves that the other represented an existential threat, and they both built up colossal arsenals to guarantee their security.
If we don’t protect them today, future generations will pay a steep – or even an existential – price.
The eurozone is gripped by an existential crisis that is slowly, but inexorably, destroying the monetary union’s very foundations.
The Shadow of the CrescentNEW YORK — As Pakistan atrophies in its existential crisis, a fundamental question about the nature of the country is coming to the fore: Are the country’s citizens Pakistanis who happen to be Muslims, or are they Muslims who happen to be Pakistanis?
In fact, it is this European crisis of confidence that has turned the current refugee crisis into an existential one: If the EU fails to regain control of its external borders, it will erect internal ones, jeopardizing the entire European project.
Profitability, growth, and safeguards against existential risks are crucial to strengthening a company’s long-term prospects.
Whereas the Saudis view the Brotherhood as an existential threat, Turkey considers it a model of Islamist politics worth defending and a means of expanding Turkish influence in the Arab world.
The history of the region’s discord is a complex mix of ethnic, territorial, and existential fears, imaginary or real.
The illness resembles a political version of Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential nausea, and led to both the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the Soviet Union’s demise with Mikhail Gorbachev’s Perestroika.
It is time for Sunnis in Iraq and beyond to speak and act with much greater clarity and consistency on this existential threat to civilization in the cradle of civilization.
Existential risks receive disproportionately little serious attention.
In 1950, five years after the war, Germany’s first postwar chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, also proposed a union – this time between France and Germany – as a way out of his defeated country’s existential crisis.
The S&D, in particular, is in deep – indeed, existential – crisis across Europe.
As became clear in 2013, Syria is now the main focus of Saudi Arabia’s attention in the region, and for existential reasons.
Rather, Europeans are facing an existential crisis over cross-border solidarity and the definition of "self-interest."
In uncertain times, Europe must decide how it will address the existential challenges it faces.
This Israeli conviction on what it considers an existential issue stands in stark contrast with the fatalism that otherwise dominates Israelis’ thinking about themselves and their relations with the Palestinians.
Credibly delivering on important EU-level reforms enabled Europe to put the most existential phase of the crisis behind it.
Common citizenship does not require a common form of life, common existential values or a common historical past.
In practice, as a small country in a troubled neighborhood – and with North Korea a constant source of tension – it lives in existential anxiety.
For the Israelis, the public statements of Palestinian armed groups celebrating rocket and mortar attacks on civilians strengthen a deep-rooted concern that negotiation will yield little and that their nation remains under existential threat from which only it can protect its people.
But, rather than rethink his approach, he has simply redirected it, in order to restore the Palestinians to their position as the principal existential threat to Israel.
To maintain their influence, it seems, they believe that they need to create an image of America as Russia’s implacable enemy, which, by extending NATO membership to ex-communist countries, is bringing an existential threat right to the country’s doorstep.
The success of the new Ukraine would constitute an existential threat to Putin’s rule in Russia.
Even more alarming, spurning multilateral cooperation means dooming the world to resignation in the face of existential issues such as climate change, a negligent stance that the Trump administration has adopted with relish.
In spite of differences concerning, for example, the German question, peace was for both of us not just a word but an existential and basic necessity.
Neither China nor the US poses an existential threat to the other the way that Hitler’s Germany or Stalin’s Soviet Union did.
Likewise, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s foreign-policy objectives and style were modest and incremental in his first presidential term, but became transformational in 1938 when he decided that Adolf Hitler represented an existential threat.
I am speaking, here, about climate change, the one truly existential threat.
Releasing a new foreign and security strategy at the same moment will not just doom the plan to irrelevance; it will reinforce the perception that the EU institutions are out of touch with the real world, exacerbating the Union’s already-acute existential crisis.
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