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He failed, because most Japanese were still allergic to anything that smacked of militarism.
Even the G20, which emerged when the G7 proved too narrow and exclusive to support effective economic-policy coordination,
failed
to change the game.
While standards for students in the region’s upper socioeconomic quintile rose over the past decade, there was little change in the lower quintile, where 70% of students
failed
to reach the most basic levels.
For his part, Obama supported the Arab Spring uprisings, but offered no pro-democratic strategy – an approach that has led Libya to become a
failed
state, Egypt to become even more dictatorial, and Syria to collapse into nightmarish and protracted conflict.
Greece first tried and
failed
to use a referendum to impose its preferences on its creditors, which then used their superior leverage to render the referendum’s outcome moot.
Over the past year and a half, China’s environmental non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) have organized protests that reach across provincial boundaries, engage Chinese from all social strata, garner support from China’s media, and directly address the issue of
failed
governance on a national scale.
Worse, given the splintering of rebel forces in the South, where an estimated 80 tribes and clans control their own militias, a military response could generate a power vacuum in Sudan and destabilize the nine countries – many of them fragile or
failed
states – on its borders.
In the year since last July’s
failed
coup, the government’s inevitable but overly heavy-handed response has alienated many Turks.
And when the Americans have
failed
to intervene, or intervened late or ineffectively – as in Syria and Libya – Europeans have demanded more American leadership.
Thus, repeated financial crises are also the result of a
failed
system of corporate governance.
In a number of cases the program
failed
to deliver what it promised.
Mullah Aukhundzada became so angry and humiliated when the promised goodies
failed
to materialize, that he ordered all the former poppy producing areas, as well as surrounding areas, to double poppy production the following year.
Though there are export markets for services beyond the EU, past global efforts to open them up have generally
failed.
The incremental approach to the region taken by the last two administrations, under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, has meant that the US has
failed
to keep pace with events.
As a result, it has
failed
to increase business investment.
Here, too, Qaddafi’s successors have
failed.
For example, a 2012 meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers
failed
to produce a joint statement, because Cambodia, a Chinese ally, would not agree to mentioning the South China Sea.
But the government’s attempts to entrench the law in a constitutional amendment, thereby elevating the authority of the office,
failed
to command the necessary two-thirds support.
Every time a poor pregnant woman must bribe an orderly to get a hospital bed (to which she is entitled), or else deliver her baby on the floor; every time a widow cannot get the pension that should be hers by right, without bribing a clerk to process the papers; and every time a son cannot obtain his father’s death certificate without greasing the palm of a petty municipal official, Indians know that the system has
failed
them.
Perhaps worse still, the profession has
failed
to provide helpful guidance in steering the world economy out of its current mess.
Indeed, it has
failed
to fulfill any of the minimum requirements for dialogue that Modi himself has cited.
(Lehman Brothers owed more than $600 billion when it failed.)
The US established military bases throughout the region, and repeated
failed
operations by the CIA have left massive supplies of armaments in the hands of violent foes of the US and Europe.
The current approach of building US-led “coalitions of the willing” has not only failed; it has also meant that even valid US objectives such as stopping the Islamic State are blocked by geopolitical rivalries.
On March 24, 2010, what all observers of European affairs have long known will be written in stone: the EU
failed
to attain the targets for economic growth, efficiency, and modernization set ten years ago in Lisbon.
What
failed
in the Lisbon Strategy?
Failed
states of south eastern Europe are being transformed into formal or informal protectorates implying deep involvement of Europe in the creation of security for the whole region.
Three fundamental shifts have occurred, each of which would be important on its own; taken together, they may be a game-changer that finally ends the hemisphere’s
failed
war on drugs.
While a similar initiative
failed
in Oregon, and Proposition 19 (which called for limited legalization of cannabis) was defeated in California in 2010 (by seven percentage points), the outcome in Colorado and Washington sent a powerful message to the rest of the US.
Palestine is not yet a state, but it is already a
failed
one.
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