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Internal inertia, incomplete information, risk aversion, and conscious and unconscious biases combine to impede recognition of the urgency and importance of adaptation.
The visible and persistent failure of education systems to adopt exciting technological breakthroughs is a well-known example of this inertia.
I do not attribute any malign or sinister purposes to the OSCE presence in Albania, unless one considers inertia malign.
There is little except national inertia, complacency and opportunism that stands in the way of beginning to formulate and implement a distinct EU policy to bolster the coalition against terrorism.
Such factors of inertia are systemic: they cannot be overcome internally by some ingenious system of majority voting.
As the Geneva II peace process slogs along – leaving cadavers and atrocities to pile up – Karski’s dedication to bringing the plight of Poland’s Jews to the world’s attention during World War II, despite the inertia of governments and publics, embodies exactly what Syria desperately needs.
Wade’s inertia is particularly damaging because instability elsewhere in West Africa – civil and foreign wars, coups d’état, predatory corruption, and trafficking of all kinds – gives Senegal a chance to position itself as a regional power.
But the most likely strategic outcome of the Ukrainian crisis is not an end to Europe’s inertia; rather, it is the revitalization of transatlantic ties, with America, having underestimated Europe’s importance, recommitting to NATO.
The fact that the energy system involves so many complex interconnections leads to tremendous inertia.
In these circumstances, the transatlantic alliance survives less from genuinely shared interests than from inertia.
Such continuing political inertia leaves an increasingly young Arab population prey to the appeal of extremist ideologies, while driving the best and brightest to seek their fortune elsewhere.
That things have turned out far differently reflects Japan's inertia.
The global rise in oil prices, endemic fear of change, lack of a viable alternative, and reliance on state hand-outs are keeping Russia in a state of inertia.
No, the lone actor most responsible for threatening world peace might unwittingly be US President Barack Obama, with his scholarly inertia and apparent disregard for the fate of smaller, faraway countries.
However, these positive transfers are countered by negative transfers from the inertia of corruption and rent-seeking.
And, while emerging firms will offer better services, they will not find it easy to overcome immediately and decisively the institutional and regulatory inertia that anchors traditional firms’ market position.
Indeed, the watchword among major investors is inertia.
The corruption and inefficiency of the state apparatus and the government's incompetence and inertia leave no hope for a real improvement in living standards.
But achieving it will require a thorough overhaul of the existing road transportation system – and that means overcoming the complex combination of public and private elements, vested interests, ingrained business models, and massive inertia that has so far impeded its development.
The forces of inertia are always strong, and when it comes to resources the current economic crisis favors neither ambitious reforms of the alliance nor serious intensification of ESDP.
Moreover, governance reforms have fallen far short of what is necessary, and barely address the sources of inertia impeding the organization.
As Pope Francis begins his first overseas trip – to Brazil, the world’s most populous Catholic country – it is difficult, despite the inertia of the past, to tell where the church is headed.
Nonetheless, we must not submit to panic and despair, or allow ourselves to be drawn into a vortex of negative inertia.
Crisis conditions can liberate a gifted leader from the accumulated constraints of vested interests and bureaucratic inertia that normally inhibit action in the American system.
It comes at a time when the West is increasingly being dragged down by short-term disruptions and continued policy inertia.
But the real cause is the inertia of state control.
But inertia is considerable, if only because consensus is required to change the rules.
But they remain plagued by inertia, immobilized by conservatism, and preoccupied by domestic politics, with many leaders allowing themselves to be taken hostage by populist Euroskepticism.
Nevertheless, this social inertia is doomed to shatter.
Government officials have taken modest steps in this direction, but culture and inertia remain powerful obstacles.
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