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Truman’s initiative subsequently went further, covering most of the non-proliferation issues that we still discuss today.
Compared with no deployment, spending $100 million on a peacekeeping initiative reduces the ten-year risk of conflict from around 38% to 16.5%.
The idea for the “Eastern Partnership” (EaP) came from a Polish-Swedish initiative early last summer.
The new initiative is exclusively for the region to the Union’s east – Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan – and is designed to complement the European Neighborhood Policy.
But the EU has its own problems with the initiative.
Many expected Xi’s anti-corruption campaign to be a temporary initiative, intended to pave the way for implementation of the aggressive economic reforms announced at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee in 2013.
Sanctified hierarchies stifle initiative.
Implementing a Marshall Plan-type initiative by mobilizing EU budget resources and additional lending by the European Investment Bank to finance investments in weaker countries could be an alternative, but it lacks political support.
Has Palestine Won?TEL AVIV – The somber spectacle of Israel’s isolation during the United Nations debate on Palestinian statehood marks the political tsunami that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s critics warned would arrive if Israel did not propose a bold peace initiative.
But, more importantly, the speeches at the UN General Assembly by the two rivals, Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, showed that any initiative to bring the parties back to the negotiating table might turn out to be futile.
This principle was stipulated by the 2002Arab peace initiative, and was previously realized in Israel’s peace with Egypt and Jordan.
If not for his bold initiative at the UN, the Quartet (the UN, the US, the European Union, and Russia) would not have become so suddenly hyperactive in searching for a formula to bring the parties back to the negotiating table.
It must now back up its growing weight in the Middle East with political initiative.
A bold initiative toward Bangladesh would also yield a strongly positive impact on growth, and yet nothing is happening there, either.
Before that happens, governments must seize the policy initiative, thereby strengthening global financial markets’ confidence in Asia’s ability to withstand the ill wind from the West.
So if the Union wants to get closer to citizens it must undertake a galvanizing initiative: the writing of the Union's principal law.
In short, what is needed is a massive, joint initiative in innovation, applied science, development, and demonstration.
While expensive, such an initiative would help give companies and banks the surety they need to invest the capital that these emerging technologies require.
A US initiative that is not assured of gaining government support would be insufficient, and only if the US forms a partnership with China would adequate scale and speed be attained to meet the challenge.
One could follow, for example, Adam Smith’s principle of comparative advantage: what Europe does best is the state, while Asia still relies on the family and the US continues to focus on individual initiative.
In the event, as the crisis of diplomacy was escalating in July 1914, he suddenly announced a grand new peace initiative.
Such an initiative could co-exist with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy’s proposal to create a risk-sharing mechanism only for eurozone countries.
That may explain why, with its “one belt, one road” initiative and its establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), China’s government is increasingly attempting to recast the world order – in particular, the monetary and trading systems – on its own terms.
The “one belt, one road” initiative aims to re-create the ancient overland and maritime Silk Roads that carried goods and ideas from Asia to Europe.
The World Bank Group, together with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, is working on the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) initiative to go after corrupt gains and help spur action to return looted assets to their legitimate owners: the people in the affected developing country.
Mark Henderson, science correspondent for the Times (London), offered this view of the UK's half-million-pound initiative: "The exercise has been farce from start to finish.
Mr. Lavin himself should take the initiative, and work out with Mr. Lagos a series of legislative initiatives – including some that require a constitutional reform – on which both candidates agreed during the campaign and that would enhance Chile's democratic system.
But South Africa needs instruments that facilitate activity and incentives that reward productivity, not barriers to investment or initiative.
So widespread is it in my country that almost every state initiative seems tainted by corruption, with the result that the implementation of some governmental programs is now highly suspect in the minds of many ordinary people.
Turkey’s curbs on political freedom have made Europe understandably hesitant to provide financial support for any human-rights-related initiative that entails cooperation with the government.
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