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Unfortunately Toback's script suffers from a real case of inertia, the plot doesn't so much unfold as it oozes.
With the entrenchment of a particular ideology or mode of thinking, monetary policymakers increasingly missed – by choice or inertia – opportunities to change, reinvigorate, and improve the running of these vital institutions.
History honors those who dare to challenge the politics of inertia by opening, through inspired diplomacy, new paths to progress.
But another force serves the Party's interests as well: the deep-seated Chinese cultural inertia that stresses collectivist, group-oriented behavior.
But the stubborn inertia of authoritarian regimes only encourages radicalization, so there is a clear need for a gradual process of liberalization.
The sense of being Europe’s economic superstar has generated policy inertia, bringing the country almost to a complete standstill on economic reforms.
This inertia has nothing to do with ideology.
Nothing much, except for policy inertia and lack of clear leadership.
Power in Russia is a product of inertia and personal willfulness, and a generally apathetic public has traditionally surrendered to the country’s paradox of tyranny: a weak state believes that it can function as a strong state by depriving citizens of basic liberties and the ability to make their own decisions.
History also teaches us that, despite their inertia, Russians are capable of turning on their government, as they did in 1917 and 1991.
Instead, a crippling malaise has engulfed the Kingdom, as Saudi Arabia’s peculiar inertia has produced idle talk of reform that cannot mask the realities of stagnation.
The inertia goes beyond the cabinet reshuffle: the judiciary – with 700 judges – also remains unchanged.
Such a hybrid, tradition-bound system may function well enough in Asian societies like Japan or South Korea, but not in countries like Poland, which must modernize and demystify their state in order to throw off the inherited inertia of the socialist era.
The public also knows that bureaucrats will use any tactic to ensure inertia, and hence their own survival.
This sterility and inertia make Europe less and less interesting for Americans.
Moreover, Trump carries no historical baggage, and his decisiveness, even if rooted in impulsiveness, could provide the necessary breakthrough to overcome decades of accumulated inertia.
Determined diplomacy, as much as goodwill, is needed to push ahead against an inherited inertia backed by a legacy of rage.
In most, if not all, of these cases, we see examples of a broader phenomenon: what might be called governing by inertia – a “can't, won't, and shouldn't" mentality, to paraphrase the economist Mark Blyth, that blocks effective policymaking.
As policy inertia prolongs sluggish growth and impairs job creation, it becomes even more difficult to abandon.
Oil demand is slow to change because of behavioral inertia and fixed technology, while adjusting production takes time.
One reason for this inertia can be found in Libya’s prevailing political culture.
In light of the current debt crisis roiling the eurozone, the advantages of a policy of inertia are easy to appreciate.
Alongside this inertia was a period of dubious, when not corrupt, government in the Kaliningrad oblast itself, as well as rivalry from neighboring Russian parts of the Northwest Region.
In these circumstances, policy inertia is not an option.
The Greek “program” is just another incarnation of Europe’s rose-tinted policy inertia.
Indeed, China’s North Korea policy is dominated by inertia rather than sensitivity to its own national interests.
But the risks of inertia seemed to be even higher.
Its vast agricultural holdings were hamstrung by worn-out equipment and the inertia of Soviet state farming.
To generate the political will that such reforms require, we must confront policymakers’ inertia and inaction with the grim facts of inequality and its devastating effects on our children.
Unfortunately, while the initiative’s goal – to foster trade, integration, and socioeconomic development within the AU – is laudable, bureaucratic inertia is likely delaying its rollout.
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