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Meanwhile, America’s relationship with its traditional Arab allies – the region’s conservative Sunni regimes – is faltering, owing largely to US President Barack Obama’s failure to respond effectively in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings.
The communist Cuba he helped to forge is an undisputed and unmitigated failure, much more impoverished and much less free than it was before its “liberation.”
As a result, the consequences of a failure to hold elections, a violent crackdown, or a takeover by another authoritarian regime would surely be worse than taking a chance on democracy.
Europe’s Lost DecadeMILAN – “Never confess a failure.
Rather than digging into the reasons for this general failure, the EU is now issuing a document that calls for new ambitious targets for 2020.
In short, the most recent emblem of the traditional, internationally imposed drug-enforcement approach, based on punitive and prohibitionist policies, is turning out to be a catastrophic failure, costing Mexico dearly while producing no results for the country, the rest of Latin America, or the US.
The Hamas victory is, first and foremost, an indication of the total failure of the traditional Palestinian leadership to create a body politic.
But banks are regulated and supervised nationally – as they must be, because any rescue in the event of a large bank failure becomes a fiscal issue, with the cost borne by taxpayers in individual states rather than by the EU as a whole.
Economic failure could fuel further nationalist, xenophobic tendencies – and even trigger military conflict.
In all of these cases, economic failure and a lack of opportunities and hope for the poor and young are fueling political and religious extremism, resentment of the West and, in some cases, outright terrorism.
In the 1930’s, the failure to prevent the Great Depression empowered authoritarian regimes in Europe and Asia, eventually leading to World War II.
After the failure in 2005 of the draft European constitution, it was far from obvious that negotiations that would yield only partial progress in improving the European Union’s decision-making mechanisms was the right way to proceed.
A woman at the Addis Ababa summit might have asked those calling for war, for example, to explain how, given their failure to control poorly armed militias in Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and elsewhere, they planned to defeat Gbagbo.
Given this, the failure of the GGE in July 2017 should not be viewed as the end of the process.
Our Post-Modern CrisisBERLIN – On the weekend of May 7-9, the European Union gazed into the abyss of historical failure.
This uncertain response partly explains Western governments’ lack of will to draw tangible conclusions from the systemic failure of the financial sector.
Moreover, the failure of the global financial system comes at a time when power is shifting from West to East.
Despite the abject failure of Japan’s approach, the rest of the world remains committed to using monetary policy to cure structural ailments.
They are all caught between the problems of the present and the mistakes of the past: in Europe, between institutions designed to avoid inflation when the problem is growth and employment; in America, between massive household and government debt and the demands of fiscal and monetary policy; and everywhere, between America’s failure to use the world’s scarce natural resources wisely and its failure to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East.
Failure to address the issues and leaders involved risks the creation of an arc of even greater instability running from Jerusalem through Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad and Tehran.
The so-called advanced economies failure to fulfill their commitments means that Myanmar and Vietnam are hardly the most vulnerable developing countries today.
One of his jokes goes to the heart of the failure of the ideology – the dogmatic religion – inflicted on our poor world by his namesake, Karl.
In his magisterial book The Rise and Fall of Communism, Archie Brown notes how travel abroad opened Mikhail Gorbachev’s eyes to the failure of the system that he had lived under all his life.
It is too early to praise the deal as an historic achievement, but it is also far too soon to peg it as a failure, or to suggest that better negotiators somehow could have done a better job of wrangling concessions from their Iranian counterparts.
Some Europeans and others may gloat over America’s failure in Iraq, and the ineptness – or worse – of US post-occupation policy cries to heaven.
Yet the root causes of that failure go deeper, to Iraq’s creation as an artificial entity in the 1920’s by British imperialist planners, who stitched together three disparate provinces of the defeated Ottoman Empire into a state that never had a coherent identity.
Failure at Cancun would confirm the fears of those who resisted a new round of trade negotiations.
But in what is perhaps the most damning failure of democracy in Russia, the young are politically apathetic and refuse to vote or actively participate in politics.
He made the right choice before the Iraq war - America's intervention was never justified and has yielded a terrible failure - and so found himself in sync with an emerging European, even global, opposition to the Bush administration.
Indeed, these new development-finance institutions are seen as a reaction against the Bretton Woods institutions, whose pursuit of neoliberal austerity policies and failure to reform their governance structures to share power with emerging economies, has been blamed for strangling public spending, de-industrialization, and the dismantling of national development banks.
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