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Russia must seek genuine strategic partnership with the US, and the latter must understand that, when excluded and despised, Russia can be a major global spoiler.
The former, called the Senkaku Islands in Japan, and the Diaoyu Islands in China, are claimed by China, Japan, and Taiwan; the latter, called Takeshima in Japan, and Dokdo in Korea, are claimed by South Korea and Japan.
For example, while capitalism depends on investment and consumption, an excess of the former leads to production gluts, and too much of the latter causes economies to overheat.
Companies invest and reinvest in their workers, because the latter can insist on it, possessing as they do a seat in the boardroom as a result of the 1951 Codetermination Law.
In a recent commentary, Harvard University economist Dani Rodrik thoughtfully argues the latter.
What, then, could be a more suitable task for militant liberalism than to subsidize the latter, while separating itself from the former?
The experience of other federations shows that the latter would be a mistake.
Indeed, while the latter is rare compared to the former, such attacks have made this year one of the costliest years for US troops since the “surge” of 2007-2008.
In the long run, striving only for the latter leads to imbalance and resource depletion not only on the individual level, but also globally.
They demand long-term capacity building and knowledge transfers from rich to poor countries, with the latter gaining far more agency in developing solutions.
If we choose the latter, we should be clear about what that means: a lost generation, at risk of abuse or trafficking – or, worse, a permanent source of fuel for radicalization and ongoing violence.
When banks in the former fail, it is creditors in the latter that would bear the cost.
If they choose the latter option, the new state will come into being on July 9, 2011.
The latter is wholly conventional and subject to regulation (and recently to questions about how corporations should behave when there are no host-country regulations).
Turkey’s reform process shows that the latter is not an unavoidable destiny for the countries of the region.
Lagarde’s challenge will be to chart a strategy for the IMF that is independent of the eurozone’s strategy, even though she has been intimately involved in formulating the latter.
Most activists in these fields, not to mention their allies in private philanthropies and international organizations like the UN, believe that they need to work together - that humanitarian emergencies are the product of human rights crises and the former cannot be seriously addressed unless and until the latter are as well.
While the latter is taken for granted in the developed world, sidewalks in Latin America are often akin to disputed territory.
While external powers would probably accept the latter option, the killings in Benghazi might have been only the beginning.
Perhaps most importantly, Mexico must devise a French-style semi-presidential system whereby a designated Prime Minister is responsible for building majorities in Congress, and must be ratified by the latter.
The former could give carte blanche to debtor countries to run up their deficits; the latter might perpetuate a two-speed Europe.
Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia are all candidates, with the latter probably posing the most difficulties.
The current imbalance in US spending on global education and military-related programs is staggering: $1 billion per year on the former, and roughly $900 billion on the latter.
The question now is if the dikes that separate the latter from the nationalist right will be breached.
The latter permanently ask for more, while the former zealously try to defend their purse.
If the latter, that is bad enough, but the answer is not self-evident, and the whole question of organized crime and the illegal trade with CFC’s demands attention.
Given the choice between re-empowering and starving its citizens, the regime chose the latter and bought off as many henchmen, through venal means, as it would need.
The latter may be politically mandatory and marginally beneficial in fiscal terms.
Given limited resources, grant-making authorities are always tempted to channel a higher proportion of funds toward the latter.
Focusing on the latter, we estimate the cost of the reinsurance premium needed to provide protection against shocks at 0.5% of the GDP of the poor countries concerned, or a vanishingly small fraction of global GDP, which can be shared between rich and poor countries.
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