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In the parliament, a vocal but
fragmented
minority of critics, cranks, and bigots is likely to push the center-right and center-left groups, which still have a combined majority, to club together even more closely.
Courtesy of what the University of Geneva’s Richard Baldwin calls the “second unbundling” of globalization, the world is awash in the excess supply of increasingly
fragmented
global supply chains.
Yet the top priority for the leader of a
fragmented
state is to gain and consolidate a monopoly on the legitimate use of lethal force.
Instead, Western central banks have had to confront market failures,
fragmented
financial systems, clogged monetary-policy transmission mechanisms, and sluggish growth in output and employment.
Such a debate does take place within all Eastern societies, which leads us to the real clash of civilizations: all societies today are
fragmented
between Westernizers and non-Westernizers.
China’s
fragmented
regulatory system – composed of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), and the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) – exacerbated the situation considerably.
The ironic sequel was that Somalia itself later
fragmented
in a civil war among its clans and warlord leaders.
The answer lies in the
fragmented
and deliberately informal nature of Europe’s monetary union.
What is new, and encouraging, about the events of the last month is that Russia has found enough common ground with the US – in their mutual anxiety about the rising influence of radical Islam in an increasingly
fragmented
and volatile region – to be prepared at last to do some squeezing.
The
fragmented
supply chains that emerge would be much less efficient, as no single country can match China in terms of infrastructure, the industrial base, or the size and skill of the labor force.
But these forces are too timid and fragmented, with no drive for political action.
Less
fragmented
industries also lobby better.
A
fragmented
“splinternet” would be very costly to the world, but that is one of the possible futures outlined last month in the report of the Global Commission on Internet Governance, chaired by former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt.
What will emerge could be a fragmented, easily manipulated region.
Similarly, China has become more uncoordinated, or fragmented, as its income disparities have continued to widen.
America’s light, incomplete, and
fragmented
pattern of regulation will not survive, and it will not be used as a model in other parts of the world.
The European Parliament is almost certain to become significantly more
fragmented
– a consequential development, given the power it has recently accrued.
But the story they tell is fragmented, incomplete, and at times even misleading.
The response of the countries involved has been
fragmented
and repressive.
Even when world trade finally began to revive after the depression ended, it remained fragmented, developing primarily within trading blocs and regions.
As for the left, it has not become
fragmented
so much as atomized.
What appears as a systemically interconnected world will also turn out to be increasingly
fragmented
cognitively, with weak global governance and policy coordination.
In the old Europe, with
fragmented
financial markets, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's request that Mannesmann remain a German company in the face of a (successful) takeover bid by Vodaphone was tantamount to his following an order by the company's mostly German shareholders.
But if the status quo powers are unwilling to cede control, the system of official international financing established by Bretton Woods will become increasingly
fragmented.
Unsurprisingly, this humiliation fueled rage within increasingly
fragmented
societies, with some groups concluding that they must wage a holy war against the Western infidels.
Humanitarian agencies are left tinkering at the margins of education provision through a
fragmented
patchwork of small-scale projects.
Marine management remains a
fragmented
patchwork of national and international bodies, with separate and often overlapping jurisdictions, and no global accountability.
The two states that gave weight to this system, Iraq and Syria, have lost their central authority, and will remain politically
fragmented
and socially polarized for at least a generation.
One key factor limiting firms’ growth is the
fragmented
nature of the African market, which currently comprises mostly small economies with only limited economic and political linkages.
In recent years, the international financial system has become increasingly fragmented, exemplified in the proliferation of bilateral and multilateral currency-swap arrangements.
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