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Now watch this video on the challenges facing France’s President-elect Emmanuel Macron:Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big LiesBOSTON – Over the last few years, a growing number of people have been taking a hard look at what is happening to our planet – historic droughts, rising sea levels, massive floods – and acknowledging, finally, that human activity is propelling rapid climate change.
ISIS – with its transnational commitment to a caliphate that encompasses vast swaths of territory from western Syria to central Iraq – exemplifies the interrelated nature of the challenges facing the region, and the threat it poses highlights the urgent need for a new framework for action in the Middle East.
After all, disorder there is a serious threat to their security, with Europe at risk owing to its geographical proximity and countries like China and India facing the prospect of energy-supply disruptions.
European arrangements must not weaken countries’ incentives to address the challenges facing them – and that means exercising extreme caution when it comes to bailing out eurozone economies.
Indeed, instead of facing the region’s changing realities with a new approach to peace in Palestine and beyond – endorsing the Arab peace initiative, for example – the Israeli left and center retreated either to worn-out slogans or to the safety of domestic agendas.
But, since 2013, it has been described as the biggest threat facing the United States.
As Obama’s new administration takes over, the choice is between making some progress, as has occurred in recent years, and facing a nuclear North Korea.
But none of the fundamental questions facing the Western Alliance have been answered in Bosnia.
Furthermore, as the economist Jeffrey Sachs has pointed out, the US defense budget amounts to $1.9 billion a day – just three days of which would plug the gap facing the Global Fund.
This tension is at the root of some of the most threatening problems facing the world economy today.
We are facing an energy crisis, a climate crisis, and an economic crisis – and perhaps a mobility crisis as well.
Harvard Business School Professors Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter argue that America’s two-party system “has become the major barrier to solving nearly every important challenge” facing the country.
Political leaders, Gehl and Porter continue, “compete on ideology and unrealistic promises, not on action and results,” and “divide voters and serve special interests” – all while facing little accountability.
Reading the opinion pages, there is a sense that the world is facing a malaise that exceeds any individual events, and that people are becoming increasingly – and dangerously – divided.
China’s South China Sea GrabMANILA – It has been just five years since China initiated its major land reclamation in the South China Sea, and the country has already shifted the territorial status quo in its favor – without facing any international pushback.
Shell's Corrupt Shell Game in NigeriaUnder fire from shareholders, and facing investigations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands for misrepresenting its oil reserves, Royal Dutch/Shell is trying to shift the blame to Nigeria.
Facing the sharp end of the stick are the seven million Niger delta peasants, who bear the brunt of the violence, environmental devastation, and social anarchy that Big Oil produces wherever it sets up its drilling rigs.
Those glaciers are disappearing, and the world’s most populous countries – all with significant military capabilities, including nuclear weapons – will find themselves facing an existential crisis if too little water is available.
Mid-career retraining must be made available not only to those who have lost their jobs to foreign competition, but also to those facing disruption from the continuing march of automation.
And, like many of them, China is now facing a “middle-income trap”: as wages rise, its low-end manufacturing is losing global competitiveness while government policies, endemic corruption, and dominant state-owned enterprises are stifling the type of private-sector innovation that China needs most to generate products and services with higher added value.
Russia and Ukraine are not alone in facing these twin epidemics.
The danger facing the EU became starkly apparent last June, when the United Kingdom voted to leave.
Facing the Four Structural Threats to US DemocracyBERKELEY – It has been one year since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, and America’s democratic institutions are clearly under strain.
But this would surely change as its dynamic private sector, facing down the government’s protectionist instincts, lobbied for membership – a proposition that would become difficult to resist as the TAP’s influence spread.
If the US tips from mild recession into deep recession, the global deflationary implications will cancel out some of the inflationary pressures the world is facing.
But tying executive payoffs to long-term results does not provide a complete answer to the challenge facing firms and regulators.
Hundreds of tent clusters have come up, but thousands of families remain out under the skies, facing rain and hail, and with dread in their hearts.
Only then will we know whether Germany can meet the Toynbeean challenge it is facing.
Poland as an ally of the US is not the real headache facing President Jacques Chirac or Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
A New Year’s Resolution for Real UN ReformThe threats and challenges facing the world at the dawn of the new millennium are numerous.
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