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A second regional focus is reflected in the revived — at Tehran’s initiative — and expanded Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), sometimes referred to as the Islamic Common Market.
But the initiative is far from over.
Graeber sums up this argument in what he calls an “iron law of liberalism”: “any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces, will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork, and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs.”
Since the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 1989, however, not a single major democratic reform initiative has been implemented.
It is working to create a large sphere of influence through its “one belt, one road” initiative.
China’s new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and its One Belt, One Road initiative to establish modern transport and communications links throughout the region are steps in the right direction.
They want to be able to take the initiative and do work that is engaging.
History suggests that it would be one of entrepreneurial people (alert to unnoticed opportunities, and exercising their initiative to try out new things) and innovative people (imagining new things, developing new concepts into commercial products and methods, and marketing them to potential).
The shared steel initiative of 1952 could find its parallel in a German-Polish initiative to jointly manage natural gas imports.
Seven of the 11 countries that signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership – the Obama-era initiative to expand trade with Asia that Trump rejected during his first month in office – are now participating in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, China’s rival trade pact.
Despite Modi’s “Make in India” initiative, a significant increase in labor-intensive manufacturing is yet to be seen.
But even before the dispute flared in mid-June, China was seething over India’s boycott of its May 14-15 summit promoting the much-vaunted “Belt and Road” initiative.
One exciting experience of my time in the Clinton White House was helping spearhead Vice-President Gore’s “Reinventing Government” initiative, where techniques and policies were developed to enhance the efficiency, efficacy, and responsiveness of government agencies.
A new Middle East policy will thus have to concentrate primarily on four aspects: 1) a comprehensive offer to Syria to detach the country from Iran and settle open conflicts; 2) an offer to Iran for direct talks about the perspective of a full normalization of relations; 3) a decisive and realistic initiative to resolve the Israeli-Arab conflict 4) a regional security architecture that centers on stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan.
By offering to permit South Korea to settle its bilateral trade accounts in renminbi, and to launch the first-ever Sino-South Korean initiative toward North Korea, Xi is seeking to convince South Korea’s leaders that the country’s future, including reunification, will be determined in Beijing.
China’s “one belt, one road” initiative – which aims to link Asia to Europe with modern infrastructure networks – will help to advance some of these goals, assuming the projects are designed with a low-carbon-energy future in mind.
That initiative will boost employment, spending, and growth, especially in the landlocked economies across Eurasia.
The polemics that preceded and followed Cameron’s recent speech on Europe showed that both British Euro-skeptics and Europe’s truest Europhiles – including such iconic figures as former European Commission President Jacques Delors – welcomed the British initiative.
As for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there is no new initiative or circumstance on the political horizon that could break the deadlock.
The so-called Immortal Regiment march, once a wonderful civic initiative, has been taken over by the Kremlin for profit and propaganda: it is a display of national unity, in which the state provides, for a fee, items like portrait-holders and ribbons.
In the past, only a few highly motivated people engaged in political activism; the masses took almost no initiative.
The initiative will aim to promote economic cooperation and integration in the Asia-Pacific region, mainly by providing financing for infrastructure like roads, railways, airports, seaports, and power plants.
In a sense, the SRF can be considered China’s latest sovereign-wealth-fund initiative, and some media have even referred to it as the “second CIC.”But, whereas the CIC is under the managerial control of the finance ministry, the SRF’s operations appear to reflect the influence of the People’s Bank of China.
And in 1902, Progressives in Oregon won overwhelmingly approval of a ballot measure creating the initiative and referendum processes.
Today, a new generation of progressive federalists are leveraging the initiative process to give citizens power over policy.
Citizen-based redistricting, open primaries, changes to term limits, majority-vote budgets, a rainy-day fund, and legislative transparency have all been the direct result of civic-minded leaders deploying the initiative process for the public good.
In the last several years, the initiative process has led to redistricting in Arizona, and ranked-choice voting in Maine.
On average, 150-200 initiative measures are on the ballot in states across the US every election year.
It may have taken more than a century, but their effort to ensure that democracy actually works, by putting power in the hands of citizens through the initiative process, created what may be the most powerful reform tool in US history.
Indeed, in America the qualities that lead people to become immigrants – initiative, ambition, risk-taking – are lionized.
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