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In the event, as the crisis of diplomacy was escalating in July 1914, he suddenly announced a grand new peace initiative.
Europe, to be blunt, must devote more energy in the years ahead to addressing its micro challenges rather than to promoting grand ideas.
Whatever the case, the current warming of relations between India and Russia, symbolized by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s recent visit, does not translate into a grand reversal of alliances, as India’s break with Russia in the 1990’s did.
In this quest, India is impaired by its lack of practice in the exercise of power on a grand scale.
Today’s de facto grand coalition between the conservative European People’s Party (EPP) and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) most likely will not survive beyond the elections.
Hedgehogs are big-idea thinkers in love with grand theories: libertarianism, Marxism, environmentalism, etc.
Attention will inevitably be focused on the US to provide more material and technical support to the security forces; drips of funding for Central America under the term of the Mérida Initiative agreed with Mexico are welcome, but likely to be insufficient in the grand scheme of things.
Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem from 1921 to 1937, maintained close ties with the fascist regimes in Italy and Germany.
France, paradoxically, has neither made clear which problems global monetary reform is expected to solve, nor proposed a grand plan for such reform.
So far, the grand bargain between the core and the periphery has held up: the periphery continues austerity and reform while the core remains patient and provides financing.
Obama’s Middle EastJERUSALEM – President-elect Barack Obama’s plans for the Middle East, the region where his predecessor’s policies shattered America’s standing around the world as a benign superpower, represent a welcome departure from President Bush’s grand design to redress the region’s ills through “constructive chaos.”
The fox, by contrast, lacks a grand vision and holds many different views about the world – some of them even contradictory.
Ozawa’s aspiration to make the next election the grand finale of his political career by cementing the DPJ as a party of government now seems in jeopardy.
And as the recently instated interior minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s new grand coalition government, he has sought to burnish his own populist credentials, including by restoring the word Heimat (homeland) to the ministry’s name.
But when two countries are genuinely prepared to engage each other, a grand sporting occasion can be a useful instrument to signal the change.
A progressive realist policy would also stress the importance of developing an integrated grand strategy that combines “hard” military power with “soft” attractive power into “smart” power of the sort that won the Cold War.
Such a grand strategy would have four key pillars: (1) providing security for the US and its allies; (2) maintaining a strong domestic and international economy; (3) avoiding environmental disasters (such as pandemics and global flooding); and (4) encouraging liberal democracy and human rights at home and, where feasible,abroad where feasible.
Such a grand strategy would focus on four major threats.
Indeed, he promotes an alliance with big money in the grand style of Anastasio Somoza, the dictator who was overthrown by Ortega’s Sandinistas in 1979.
That means telling Putin to keep any grand visions to himself.
Merkel may have been softened by having to preside over a grand coalition, but her original stance was more of the Reagan-Thatcher variety.
Such transfers will be pushed through with measures that French President Emmanuel Macron has already called for, in order to strengthen his country’s hinterland in the South, and which Germany’s new provisional grand coalition has already endorsed (with minor modifications).
For the past 10 years, Austria has been governed by a grand coalition of Social Democrats and Conservatives; but these two mainstream parties constantly block each other, and are united only in their opposition to right-wing populists such as Hofer.
To be sure, a German-style grand coalition would not be in line with how politics is usually practiced in France, which is accustomed to a rigid left-right divide.
Right now, China’s focus is not on grand political visions for the future, but on grand visions for a Beijing reborn to impress the world.
And the economic payoff would be enormous: every dollar invested in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to achieve this grand convergence would return $9-20.
The opportunity to achieve a grand convergence in global health outcomes is within reach.
Even several grand titles have either closed down or publish only online.
Australia is a beautiful and prosperous country, with a grand landscape and fine cities, most notably Sydney and Melbourne.
Increasing spending today is the only way Italy’s coalition parties can deliver on their grand campaign promises.
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