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It requires a discontinuous leap in expectations and policies, and a fundamental shift in the political and social consensus.
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.
China’s Reform StalemateBEIJING – China’s reform program has reached an impasse, with fundamental conflicts of interest and subtle resistance mechanisms blocking progress.
Of course, reconciling the fundamental misalignment of interests in China will not be easy – not least because interest groups will not discuss, much less oppose, reforms in an open and transparent manner.
The fundamental contradiction, as these examples show, is between the goals of the reform process and the incentives that underpin them.
While rifts between, say, Spaniards and Catalonians will surely reemerge soon, that fundamental sense of unity must endure.
Moreover, the mood in the West swings between a realization that this crisis will not be resolved without fundamental commotions and changes, and hope that it will be resolved in the normal, cyclical way of other crises – Mexico, Asia, the Internet bubble, etc. – and that in the not-so-distant future things will start to pick up.
But whereas Juppé, who coined the term l’identité heureuse (the happy identity), aims to transcend the deepening divisions within French society, Sarkozy seems poised to capitalize on them, presenting Islam as a fundamental threat to the French way of life.
The march towards higher interest rates has already begun in the United States, where the Federal Reserve is betting on a fundamental market asymmetry.
There remains the most fundamental issue of attitude.
Radical proposals that would help restore a more resilient system, offered by the likes of Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King, have been smothered by noisy discussion of measures that do nothing to address modern banking’s fundamental defects.
Carson drew on scientific findings, but also voiced fundamental misgivings about consumer capitalism and a “postmaterialistic” belief in the primacy of the quality of life over economic growth.
What is needed, above all, is fundamental reform in the structure of the eurozone.
In this way, fundamental tensions are created both in the way these deals are put together and in the overall conduct of North-South and South-South integration.
The only way to halt the current Ebola outbreak, and prevent similar epidemics, is to address the fundamental social and political vulnerabilities that have allowed the virus to flourish.
Ebola will be defeated, but the vulnerabilities that this outbreak has exposed should spur a fundamental shift in focus among policymakers.
It is a fundamental national-income accounting identity that must hold for every country in every year.
The saving-investment imbalance is fundamental, and it alone determines a country’s external position.
Language delivered a fundamental breakthrough in the life of nations.
They are the fundamental basis of Hungarian life.
But if Italy defies common rules or refuses to accept the fundamental principles of sound budgeting, any reform will be dead on arrival.
Whichever path emerging economies choose for addressing these challenges must also account for the fundamental shift driven by digital capital-intensive technologies.
With the subtext in most cases being recurring nervousness about China’s rise, recent weeks have witnessed some very significant institutional and policy changes, as well as fundamental strategic repositioning, by the region’s major players.
In all of these cases, many people consider hatred and conflict inevitable, owing to a fundamental clash of values and interests.
The two world wars and the Cold War shaped European integration as a project of peace, a defense of the West’s fundamental values, and common economic prosperity.
At issue is not only the allocation of competencies, but also the more fundamental matter of when to rely on intergovernmental institutions and when to turn to the European people as a whole.
The time may not have come for a true European constitution, but confronting, rather than evading, the fundamental issues that the EU faces could create the proper context for reviving the constitutional treaty and preparing the Union for the challenges of our time.
The experience of the last decade suggests that a policy of engaging the Kremlin intensely while protecting fundamental Western interests may be the best way to proceed.
Chirac's outburst is so damaging to European unity precisely because it undermines this most fundamental kernel of trust.
Even a global depression cannot be excluded in the face of this fundamental crisis.
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