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Instead, we find ourselves still facing serious nuclear threats.
Schuman was France’s foreign minister in May 1950, facing grand strategic questions on the organization of European and Atlantic cooperation.
Communities are already facing more extreme and frequent droughts, floods, and other weather events.
Facing a shared threat from the Soviet bloc and US prodding, European countries created institutions to promote peace and cooperation, leading to economic and monetary union, now a banking union, and possibly in the future a fiscal and political union.
That may be true, but it should not be permitted to obscure the underlying structural problem that the world economy is facing.
But the challenge facing Orthodoxy underscores the three options that all contemporary religious communities now face: to resist pluralism, to withdraw from it, or to engage with it.
So let us speak frankly, facing a taboo, about what it means to be a senior woman leading effectively: it means that one will occasionally contradict a man, however politely; overrule a man, however courteously; disregard a man’s strategic advice, no matter how gently the decision is put; and tell a junior man, however tactfully, that he is not performing well enough.
Both have had to expend a great deal of political capital, confronting domestic nationalist forces and facing down no-confidence motions spearheaded by opposition parties.
Now watch this video on the challenges facing France’s President-elect Emmanuel Macron:The Missing Arrow of AbenomicsTOKYO – In his drive to kick-start the Japanese economy, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, shortly after taking office in 2012, introduced a large fiscal stimulus and put in place a bold program of monetary easing.
Wall Street is now facing one of the worst contractions in history.
Unlike Roosevelt, he has a perfect understanding of the nature of the economic challenges facing him, and, like Churchill, he benefits from the support of a population ready to follow him in a climate of national unity, at least in the short run.
If more Tatars do settle in Crimea, Russia’s neo-imperial project, already facing an Islamist insurgency in Chechnya and Dagestan, would become all but untenable.
Equally important, however, is the fact that the IMF made its decision while facing an existential crisis.
Indeed, it has only gained strength since 2012, and now, with post-Crimea popular support having bought it some time, the regime is trying to adapt to the protracted economic, political, and social malaise Russia is facing.
For political leaders, facing electoral calendars or other short-term pressures, “long-term planning” can mean just four years, or even less.
Indeed, although structural adjustment continues in China, the economy is facing an increasingly serious contraction in demand and continued deflation.
Facing tribal unrest and incessant fighting, the British proposed to settle the tribes from Waziristan (present-day North Waziristan and South Waziristan) in British territory.
We must also attract foreign investment, despite the difficulties facing Europe, the US, and Japan.
Currently, however, Obama’s smart-power strategy is facing a stiff challenge from events in the Middle East.
Precisely because Israelis are aware of the constant security threat facing their country, they have always believed that their leaders should be able to lead Israel in war – but also to ask the military tough questions when diplomacy may fail.
All six troubled countries are facing the prospect of being consigned to second-class status in the eurozone.
And Saudi Arabia is unlikely to start paying attention now, when it is facing a perfect storm of problems, beginning with rock-bottom oil prices.
Is the West a concept defined above all by its political culture, i.e., democracy and human rights, by its cultural dimension, including religion, or merely by its diplomatic and strategic implications, i.e., facing the rise of new powers?
The challenge facing the international community is thus to ensure adequate consumption of the right kinds of food.
Making Sense of Pension ReformWARSAW – Pension reform has become one of the most troubling fiscal dilemmas facing developed countries, especially those with a shrinking workforce and an aging population.
In fact, the reforms are a sensible and sustainable response to the fiscal squeeze that many other developed (and some developing) countries are facing.
The initiative will have to come from the top if the case is to be made within each country for more open markets, and for help to be made available to those facing adjustment.
A 1979 Gallup Poll had shown that 62% of Americans regarded inflation as the “most important problem facing the nation."
Conceptually, the eurozone must include solidarity with countries facing hardship, because this is what unites and gives strength to the whole – but without the heavy machinery of a federal budget or a permanent increase in transfers.
Further east, resource-rich transition economies such as Russia and Kazakhstan are facing what is arguably an even bigger challenge.
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