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The Maastricht Treaty envisaged a simple policy framework for economic and monetary union.
And they, too, have a universally accepted ritual framework that stands the test of time.
By extending the Kyoto Protocol – which limits some developed countries’ greenhouse-gas emissions – for another eight years, the Doha agreement preserves the vital framework of international law and retains hard-won accounting rules for emissions allowances and trading between countries.
But at least we now have a promising framework for understanding how bizarre experiences in the mind can be linked to abnormal processes in the brain.
Even local initiatives, which are increasingly important for addressing the problem, must fit into a framework of converging global policies and obligations.
Why do some societies achieve the compromises needed to sustain an independent judiciary and a modern regulatory framework – both necessary for an efficient modern economy – while others perpetuate a partisan, winner-take-all approach to governance that weakens public policy and erodes private-sector confidence?
The absence of a stable framework will force investors to re-think asset-allocation decisions and risk pricing.
Indeed, the longer it takes to put a strategic communications framework into place, the more the vacuum will be filled by the enemy.
But it must be underpinned by a regulatory and policy framework that encourages risk-taking and innovation.
The global liberal order’s architects constructed a web of international agreements, trade arrangements, and military alliances to achieve three basic goals: promotion of open trade, prevention of catastrophic wars, and discouragement of economic nationalism by replacing a centuries-old zero-sum arrangement with a positive-sum framework under which all participating countries could prosper.
At the Hawaii summit, Obama must orchestrate the first steps toward constructing an effective multilateral framework within which the complications posed by China’s rise can be addressed.
The Greening of ChinaTwo countries – the United States and China – remain aloof from global efforts to create a new post-Kyoto framework on climate change.
This Contingency Credit could be adapted so that any country could use it in times of crisis, provided it received a positive report in its annual consultation with the IMF;a general framework for working out a country's debt problems, to be activated when crises occur.
But it can provide a political framework and institution-building support to improve the deficiencies that made these countries so vulnerable to the crisis: imperfect market economies, weak state institutions, and continued corruption.
Rather than creating a uniform, predictable, and scientifically sound framework for effectively managing legitimate risks, the bio-safety protocol establishes an ill-defined global regulatory process that permits overly risk-averse, incompetent, or corrupt regulators to hide behind the precautionary principle in delaying or deferring approvals.
To achieve this, policymakers must have a sound enforcement framework at their disposal, take an economy-wide approach, and attract the participation of all stakeholders.
A clearly defined and mutually agreed framework will guarantee swift action to meet security threats when necessary – and only when necessary.
In the Middle East – a region that, unlike Eastern Europe, has no landing strip – our support is essential to the construction of a new regional framework.
In 2012, the lesson should be the need for greater political integration and financial regulation, a legitimate and transparent institutional framework, and consensus.
In an article in July, Sheng Songcheng, the PBOC’s head of statistics, argued that “the macro framework in a socialist market economy is superior to the Western economy,” because “the Chinese government has significant power in terms of both monetary and fiscal policy and is able to seek the optimal combination.”
We know that any framework or process will have its limitations.
As a lawyer experienced in US government regulations, I can confidently say that the existing regulatory framework is utterly incapable of assessing and governing gene-drive technology.
The absence of a framework that addresses the factors driving migration leaves politicians free to attend to their domestic markets, with little thought to the negative political and economic externalities that may be wreaking havoc outside their borders.
The ideals of globalization, which emphasized cross-border interconnectedness, are being replaced by a framework of “every nation for itself.”
Xi told Singh that he sought “a fair, reasonable, and mutually acceptable settlement based on mutual understanding and accommodation,” adding significantly, “Let’s settle the boundary framework agreement quickly.”
Whether Xi’s appeal to India to “settle the boundary framework quickly” was an exhortation or a warning, other Asian countries can no longer afford to ignore their own border disputes with China.
It should give member states the chance to develop an approach to Europe that suits their national traditions, within the EU framework.
In rethinking economics and security, we will need to develop an approach that advances innovation within a framework of coordinated deliberation about future social and political arrangements.
Indeed, since the end of WWII, Japan has avoided a full-fledged debate on the country's national security framework, in which Japan would have the courage to disagree with the US.
These initiatives have been presented as complements to the prevailing Bretton Woods system, but it is easy to see how they could also form the foundation for an alternative global-governance framework at some point in the future.
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