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As my colleague Jessica Ludwig and I wrote in Foreign Affairs in November, “the democracies’ complacency concerning the evolution of malign, sharp power has been informed by their reliance on the soft power paradigm.”
Whether the future holds benign or malign scenarios depends in part on the policies that we adopt today.
By singling out Americans, British and Israelis for their malign attention, the terrorists extended the global Islamist war against “Jews and crusaders” to new territory.
Argentina then used a mixture of coercion and negotiation to get out from under the mountain of debt that it incurred in the 1990’s, effectively expropriating foreign creditors, who were viewed as dangerous and malign.
Other economists continue to fret that in Europe, if not in America, the benign disinflation of recent decades could yet turn into malign deflation.
While India’s government had briefly hoped that the proof might enable Pakistan’s weak civilian government to rein in the malign elements in its society, the Pakistani authorities’ reaction has been one of denial.
As a result, we now know that economic policies should be geared toward inclusion; material consumption will have to be curtailed; and democracy must be protected from the malign influence of concentrated wealth and entrenched interests.
Hence, every movement designed to stigmatize or malign some group – Jews, blacks, gays, the poor, women, and so on – has used disgust.
Not only good things – like principles of social justice and gender equality – cross borders more easily than ever before; so do malign influences like environmental problems and disease.
Many people in many countries interpreted a crisis that unambiguously began in the United States, but affected some other countries more harshly, as evidence of a fundamentally malign US plan.
It occurred to him that the US could use its own influence over the private sector to block malign actors from the global economy.
But I am bemused when a minister’s swearing-in ceremony is delayed because an astrologer told him that the time was not auspicious to take the oath, or when a candidate’s election papers are filed at the last possible minute to avoid the malign influences of the stars at other times of the day.
The great divide between the West and Iran today, it should be noted, is largely the result of malign Western behavior toward Iran (Persia until 1935) in the past.
The problem, of course, is that majorities with a malign “common motive” emerge nonetheless.
Rousseau was so convinced of the malign effects of urbanization that he “would rather see men grazing on meadow grass than devouring each other in cities.”Urbanization inures people to the suffering of the countryside, and as townspeople crowd together, their capacity for compassion toward others atrophies.
And while the defense planning of others in the region assumes no malign intent by China, such planning must be conducted – as evident in Australia’s recent Defence White Paper – with the capability of major regional players squarely in mind.
Nor did the endless debates on the shape of the table in the Vietnam negotiations advance the effort to end that malign conflict.
The digital age has introduced new vulnerabilities that hackers, cyber criminals, and other malign actors are already routinely exploiting.
And cross-border electronic transfers between banks are often used for malign and criminal purposes.
Rather, the danger is that the fallout from one disaster will combine with others, producing unprecedented negative feedback effects – possibly accelerated by malign human actors.
His scathing resignation letter excoriated Trump for not “treating allies with respect” or “being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors.”
True, despite Trump’s malign efforts, the United States retains considerable soft power, because much of the world regards his presidency as an aberration that does not reflect America’s “true” character.
If anything, the party has gained even more leeway to engage in malign and corrupt behavior.
But this does not mean that we must agree with everything Bogle said, or malign others who are not nonprofit.
The decision was reached after a campaign of lies and malign foreign influence, and it is obvious that its costs will far exceed its benefits.
Dealing with China After COVID-19LONDON – With the coronavirus continuing its brutal global rampage, it takes a particular sort of malign genius to put the United States in the political dock as the death toll mounts and economic devastation spreads.
The malign power of this virus is that people can be infective without showing symptoms.
From the start, the near-absolutist doctrine of shareholder primacy has served to protect managers at the expense of employees, and its malign effects have been exacerbated by the practice of paying managers in stock.
In the wrong hands, they could be used to fragment the Internet and enable top-down control of usage and users by governments with malign intentions.
The pursuit of higher GDP is easy to malign.
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