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Largely as a result of technological successes in the past 200 years, the human population has grown seven-fold since 1800, from around 900 million in 1800 to more than 6 billion people today, crowding humanity into vulnerable spots throughout the world.
But policymakers have been largely oblivious to the shift – a failing that has undermined their ability to develop effective global solutions.
What is wrong is that those concerns and policies are driven largely by anger over Putin’s own nationalism, rather than by a careful consideration of the diplomatic and strategic milieu.
This dynamic “liberal order” – largely fair, flexible, and open enough to welcome new entrants as they rise – will continue to serve Asia well.
But it should now be clear to everyone that democratization in the southern Mediterranean cannot bypass Islamist movements, and that the success of that process largely depends on the degree to which their full participation in the political arena is ensured.
As noted by The Economist, the Chinese Communist Party has not bought into the idea that soft power springs largely from individuals, the private sector, and civil society.
A warning system based solely on how widely a virus has spread, but that does not consider the nature and severity of the illness it causes, would classify as “pandemics” not only seasonal flu, but also the frequent but largely inconsequential outbreaks of virus-caused colds and gastroenteritis, for example.
There can be little hope for sustained economic development where the educational system is at least one generation--and possibly three generations--behind other regions in terms of its commitment to universal literacy, and where higher education largely ignores the skills and subjects needed to enable people to master technology.
Predictions are largely pointless, given that the assumptions underpinning them will invariably change.
But Leviathan's bleak portrait of contemporary Russian life actually confirms many of the reasons why Americans have been largely dubious about Russia's ability to reform following communism's collapse.
After a long and spectacular “bonanza” in commodity prices since the early 2000s, driven largely by China’s investment boom, many commodity exporters found themselves with historically high levels of foreign-exchange reserves.
Public pessimism in southern Europe is largely attributable to the absence of such a reward.
Despite momentous technological advances, classrooms – unlike workplaces or homes – have remained largely unchanged since the nineteenth century.
After independence, African and Asian countries pursued massive and largely successful initiatives to raise basic education and literacy.
Although Japan paid much of the costs of that war by raising domestic taxes, its supportive actions went largely unnoticed.
But the main reason for India’s good relations with Myanmar’s ruling thugs is the country’s vast and still largely unexploited energy reserves, which India desperately needs to fuel its economic boom.
In the US, government fostered the airline business – largely by buying cargo services from private airlines.
During the last few years, popular support for Putin has weakened considerably, largely due to a stagnating, commodities-based economy.
They find that an insult to their intelligence, and young women in particular are largely supporting Sanders; they prefer his platform and are troubled by questions about her integrity.
A second “must” for a successful twenty-first-century export strategy is a focus on services, which have been largely ignored in the government’s negotiations with the EU.
Moreover, Western Europe is largely secular, whereas much of Central and Eastern Europe (not to mention the US) is more likely to link its identity to a religion-based moral order.
This situation is largely the result of predictable post-crisis economic dynamics, as firms and households in advanced countries repair their balance sheets.
It will be harder in countries where they did not, or where the economy remains largely in the hands of the armed forces.
French and German banks have been able to sell their holdings of Greek government bonds, largely to the ECB, which has acted as bond purchaser of last resort.
But whether the Republican plan “would” do something depends largely on those “mights.”
Europe’s impasse is largely due to a standoff between opposing desires, objectives, and concerns: German fears of Greco-Latin rule-bending will always trump French fears of German empire-building, and vice versa.
Moreover, this winner-take-all system fails to account for the fact that scientific work is largely carried out by research teams rather than individuals.
And, third, exporters who wish to preserve their share in world markets – where prices are largely denominated in dollars – choose to keep their dollar prices stable, to avoid falling victim to idiosyncratic exchange-rate movements.
For example, this summer’s stock-market crash was widely viewed as a natural correction, because equity prices – driven largely by government interventions – had risen over the previous year far above what economic fundamentals merited.
But it lacked commitments by large developing countries, such as China and India, and, largely for that reason, the United States never ratified the treaty.
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