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But if we recall the problems that Europe faced in the 1950’s, there is no reason to suppose that this cannot be done.
Historically, whenever a new great power has emerged and faced an existing power, military conflict has ensued.
Faced with a choice between Fernando Haddad of the leftist Workers’ Party and the right-wing extremist Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilians chose the extremist – an outcome that will have far-reaching consequences for the environment, among other things.
Add to that a sharply depreciating peso (down by more than 50% against the US dollar this year), and the increase in gas prices faced by households and businesses, on average, amounts to 1,300% over the last 24 months.
Several economies that recently faced financial crises are rebounding strongly.
But we will still be left with the most difficult global issue we have ever faced: as more of us prosper, how do we deal fairly with some of the economic and environmental consequences?
We have never faced a more difficult political task.
Indeed, given a very low savings rate and high fiscal deficit over the past few decades, the US might otherwise have faced economic disaster.
Faced with inflows of huge numbers of refugees from the Middle East and Africa – inflows that exceed many countries’ absorptive capacity – the EU may need to modify the free movement of people for a period of time.
Faced with the urgent necessity of alleviating so many Americans’ suffering, Obama knows only too well that the “audacity of hope” will not be sufficient to the immensity of the challenges confronting him.
But a series of events – the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, the assassinations of a presidential candidate and the incoming president’s chief aide, and the collapse of the currency – shook Mexico that year, underscoring the depth of the challenges it faced.
But the Mazowiecki government faced a nearly impossible task: building democratic political institutions while resuscitating the country’s torpid economy.
After Chinese leaders faced international criticism and deteriorating relations with the US, Japan, India, and other countries, they decided to return to Deng’s smart-power strategy.
They were convicted for financial crimes in a 2004 trial, but in August faced a fresh round of charges, including tax evasion and embezzlement.
In trying to explain the astonishing repudiation of Major's government, British commentators have quoted a comment made by Harold Macmillan in the 1960s, when he was asked what was the greatest problem a Prime Minister faced: "Events, dear boy, events".
In 1995, she also faced a coup attempt – which was ultimately foiled – by renegade military officers.
When Russia faced its worst crisis, aid was given to the corrupt Yeltsin regime.
Shortly after the war, the US government faced a new set of challenges – reintegrating returning service members, responding to the growing threat from the Soviet Union, and rebuilding a devastated Europe – that it prioritized over individual incomes.
Will he be remembered as the French Harry Truman – a discreet, uncharismatic man who, when faced with urgent and dramatic circumstances, ended up doing the right things for lack of a better alternative?
Liberal democracies, when faced with dire challenges, have found such voices before.
The multilateral trading system has faced challenges before, including during the Uruguay Round in the early 1990’s, and has emerged with renewed vigor.
Even though Museveni faced no risk of losing, he took no chances, arresting his opponent's aids and supporters.
He also created enemies (and even faced death threats).
The MDGs also cast a global spotlight on the crippling debt burdens faced by many of Africa’s poorest countries, leading to a process of debt cancelation led by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Yes, UK growth has been slightly slower, but the British economy has also faced, among other factors, the headwind of sharply falling North Sea oil production during this period, whereas the US benefited from a shale-oil boom.
And the dissident Hassan Abbas has spoken publicly about the regime’s impending collapse (and, to be sure, the special abuse that he has faced for being Alawite).
This shield may, perhaps, have worked too well because the more weakly performing countries faced no discipline from financial markets.
At one point recently, companies faced the threat of being compelled to furnish a list of their foreign workers.
And yet, in fighting for their lives against the Islamic State, the Kurds have won new legitimacy; once the fighting has ended, they will not simply forget their national ambitions – or the mortal threat they faced.
I recently attended a presentation on the constraints of creativity faced by editorial cartoonists.
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