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Instead, the world must focus on the second phase, because it is weapons potential that is the looming danger, and it is here that internationally mandated
mechanisms
for oversight and supervision exist.
But at a time when the world is moving toward increasingly multi-layered and networked governance mechanisms, the ability to bring a variety of actors to the table – which implies influence over who gets a seat – is a valuable commodity.
We need to put in place
mechanisms
to identify the gaps at each facility and coach leaders and staff in closing them.
Their idea is that the eurozone could not afford a neo-fascist government in a member country, and that preventing such an outcome requires both carrots (transfer mechanisms) and sticks (supranational powers).
Within the G-20 countries, there are
mechanisms
that attend to the interests of the most vulnerable citizens.
Indeed, the proliferation of bilateral agreements, with their own
mechanisms
for resolving differences, will inevitably weaken the WTO’s dispute-settlement mechanism, further undermining multilateralism.
Despite the fact that microbes do not ordinarily seek to maximize their virulence, most research on infectious disease focuses on the
mechanisms
by which the harmful effects of microbes are felt, as well as on the ways in which host organisms adapt (mainly through the immune system) to fight that virulence.
Very little attention has been given to the microbes’ internal
mechanisms
for sustaining themselves as inhabitants within their hosts, which includes the interest the microbe shares with its host in controlling and limiting the damage it does.
Traditional reductionist views of science, with their focus on “bottom-up” mechanisms, do not suffice in the quest to understand top-down and circular causality and a world of nested processes.
The memory of 1914 may trigger the most concern in East Asia, where all the ingredients of a similar disaster have accumulated: nuclear weapons, the rise of China as a global power, unresolved territorial and border disputes, the division of the Korean Peninsula, historical resentments, an obsession with status and prestige, and hardly any cooperative conflict-resolution
mechanisms.
Because many cities share water resources, cross-jurisdictional financing
mechanisms
and a shared sense of commitment will be needed in order to protect and restore natural sources of clean water.
The Pact also improves the business environment and creates mechanisms, such as the extension of a research tax rebate, designed to boost innovation.
A good place to start would be the formation of a Red Sea Trade Agreement, similar to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, outlining specific measures to reduce the costs of cross-border trade and
mechanisms
to settle disputes between investors and governments.
Yet political
mechanisms
to solve these problems are lacking or dysfunctional, even as the continuing global crisis should persuade us to seek – without delay – a new model that can ensure political, economic, and environmental sustainability.
We need more inclusive institutions and
mechanisms
that provide assurances and guarantees to all.
At the same time, new
mechanisms
are being put in place to measure and evaluate emissions, which will allow much clearer comparisons between countries.
Will we be able to implement cooperation
mechanisms
between countries such as the UN’s Collaborative Program on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries – the REDD program – so as to prevent deforestation and encourage technology transfer and financing?
In Australia’s case, this means thinking again about some of our efforts to limit our exposure to the International Court of Justice and certain dispute-resolution
mechanisms
under UNCLOS.
In fact, eurozone banks’ preference for home-country sovereign bonds is rooted in a combination of factors, including fear of redenomination – a consequence of the crisis that leads banks to concentrate their risk domestically – and the expectation that bailout
mechanisms
will be national.
Never before has mankind been able to understand the functioning of cells, tissues, and organs, the precise molecular
mechanisms
of evolution, and where and how our species originated and spread throughout the world.
The technology that allows us to unravel cellular and subcellular processes and mechanisms, identify the causes of diseases and develop more specific and effective treatments, and determine who is biologically related to us and to what degree combines knowledge from biology, computer sciences, information technology, and material sciences.
A significant group of Latin American countries with leftist governments have created new
mechanisms
for integration among themselves, as well as more autonomous relations with the US.
Our aim should be to invent financial
mechanisms
for segmenting and spreading risk, so that one bad case no longer has the potential to destroy the whole system.
The work of Duke neuroscientists Scott Huettel and Michael Platt has shown, through functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments, that “decision making under ambiguity does not represent a special, more complex case of risky decision making; instead, these two forms of uncertainty are supported by distinct mechanisms.”
This long-run plan should increase spending on education, infrastructure, and research, while curbing future growth in health-care spending through the cost-containment
mechanisms
contained in Obama’s health-reform legislation.
Societal
mechanisms
simply cannot be adjusted without a crisp, practiced understanding of a culture.
In the absence of forced equalization
mechanisms
(such as those used in the United States’ National Football League), European soccer is now dominated by a handful of teams that have become business behemoths.
In Asia, especially, filling the vacuum with alternative financing
mechanisms
has become a high priority.
To achieve this, we must use innovative
mechanisms
to leverage and mobilize global funds, especially from the private sector.
When traditional market
mechanisms
fail, instruments such as “transferable market exclusivities” can help, by allowing drug makers to transfer an antimicrobial medicine’s intellectual-property benefits to another drug.
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