Hierarchy
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In fact, any balancing tends to take place in order to preserve the hierarchy, not to replace or supersede it.
As China and India rise, and Japan becomes more “normal,” they will balance each other within the US-led
hierarchy
to ensure that the US remains on top and one or the other doesn’t dominate.
If China makes a bid for regional hegemony, it will find it difficult to resist the structural constraints placed on it within this
hierarchy.
On the contrary, if Trump follows through on his campaign promises, the greenback could eventually be toppled from the peak of the global monetary hierarchy, as a widening range of alternatives emerge to pull it down.
Even as the Bush administration was spinning the notion that the torture of prisoners was the work of “a few bad apples” low in the military hierarchy, I knew that we were seeing evidence of a systemic policy set at the top.
Paradoxically, the fastest way to build a strong middle class in Africa would be to move toward the
hierarchy
of principles that China’s model promotes.
Among other things, they seem to have predisposed people to accept bureaucratic structures, a social philosophy emphasizing hierarchy, and a belief that there is a single right way of doing things.
Whether it is at work, in school, or even on dating apps, we have already become accustomed to having our eligibility assessed by impersonal tools, which then assign us positions in a
hierarchy.
In fact, the basic concept that is sometimes called “Web 2.0” rests on the idea of user-based content bubbling up from below rather than descending from the top of a traditional information
hierarchy.
In his seminal 1996 article in the Harvard Business Review, W. Brian Arthur identified the important distinctions between a health-care system defined by planning, hierarchy, and control and one characterized by observation, positioning, and flattened organizations.
That multimedia spectacular did far more than trace China’s 5,000-year history; it was a statement that China is a major civilization that demands and deserves its rightful place in the global
hierarchy.
But this scientific
hierarchy
is false and misleading: we now know that biology contains more mathematics than we ever imagined.
As individuals in such regimes ascend the hierarchy, patronage and risk-aversion become the most critical factors in determining their chances for promotion.
Will compromise and mutual accommodation – extremely rare in recent years, enable Thailand to reshape its contested political order – currently underpinned by an elite-driven, monarchy-centered
hierarchy
– to reflect better the principles of electoral democracy?
Donald Trump and the New Economic OrderHONG KONG – Since the end of World War II, the
hierarchy
of economic priorities has been relatively clear.
Hu, a hydrologist by training, owes his swift rise in the Communist Party
hierarchy
to the brutal martial-law crackdown he carried out in Tibet in 1989.
For the Shia religious hierarchy, long accustomed to relegating the advent of the Mahdi to a distant future, Ahmadinejad’s insistent millenarianism is troublesome.
Above all, this crisis confirms the new
hierarchy
of powers that now exists in the world.
So-called “evidence-based medicine” entails a
hierarchy
of empirical proof that ranks medical studies according to their quality.
Physiological research on animals, or of human responses in laboratory settings, rank low on the
hierarchy.
But if this emerging
hierarchy
of rights isn’t managed carefully, the legitimacy of the entire human-rights project could be imperiled.
Because the Calvinists did not accept a Church hierarchy, they - like the Iranian Shi'ites who are not part of the Sunni majoritarian universalism - based their legitimacy on the community of believers and so introduced elections.
While successful twentieth-century insurgencies developed some degree of
hierarchy
and a political wing, the Iraq insurgency remains a loose, amorphous network.
There was an elaborate gradation and
hierarchy
among the middle-ranking and even untouchable castes, which governed interaction between them and kept inter-caste socialization to a minimum.
Usually a prosperous caste succeeded in raising its rank in the ritual
hierarchy.
Anyone failing to recognize – or, worse, directly challenging – this
hierarchy
is in the wrong.
But, unless Israel is ready to pay an exceptionally high price in terms of its international standing by occupying Gaza and destroying its entire military
hierarchy
and arsenal, Hamas can still claim victory, having survived yet another onslaught by Israel’s colossal military machine.
The Brotherhood is a movement run by a
hierarchy
that is more akin to the Bolsheviks.
But social science research in the 1940’s and 1950’s, including interviews with surviving Nazi leaders, demonstrated that members of the German governmental
hierarchy
were not only sane, but also highly intelligent.
Unlike the Bankruptcy Law, the administrative procedure has a different
hierarchy
of liquidation priorities: what a bankrupt SOE owes to its employees and the resettlement charges must be covered first and foremost by its total assets, including the enterprise’s collateral, in order to reduce dependence on local governmental budgets.
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