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To understand what is going on, we need a different explanation of what keeps investment and growth low in most poor nations.
It helps to be seen as a “poor, developing” country, not as an economic giant, because “developed” nations are expected to do more to combat major global challenges, like climate change.
When developing nations are forced into overvalued currencies, entrepreneurship and investment in those activities are depressed.
What poor nations get out of Chinese mercantilism is, at best, temporary growth of the wrong kind.
But poor nations could have shifted the “burden” onto rich countries, where, economic logic suggests, it ought to be placed.
It also seemed to violate earlier agreements to cooperate with other nations through the G-20, the Financial Stability Board, and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
India’s independence marked the dawn of the era of decolonization, but many nations threw off the yoke of empire only after bloody and violent struggles.
Two decades ago, the West rejected “spheres of influence,” because Europe’s bloody history taught us that compelling nations to align themselves with others against their will was wrong and a recipe for future conflict.
The latter group, for example, are generally supportive of the plan to build a Community of South American Nations, a scheme backed primarily by Argentina and Venezuela.
By using its good offices to mediate conflicts in places like Northern Ireland, Morocco, and the Aegean Sea, the US has helped in shaping international order in ways that are beneficial to other nations.
For these reasons, the ways in which America assumes its global responsibilities must embody those premises that alone may save civilization as a whole: this way should be imbued with a new spirituality, a new ethos and new ethics; exactly with the things that should be adopted by all cultures, all spheres of civilization and all nations of today's world as a condition of their survival.
The popularity and success of their programs induced liberal, labor, and social democratic governments in many nations to also promote free market policies in direct conflict with their traditional ideologies.
Both nations suffered high unemployment and slow growth during the 1990’s, in good measure due to heavy-handed regulation of labor and other markets.
Conservative governments in these nations accomplished little in the way of serious market reform, despite considerable rhetoric.
How often, under what conditions, and for how long should the IMF offer financial assistance to distressed nations?
In my view, it needs not only to shun its traditional role as defender of pegged rates but actively to support (dirty) floating rates for most nations.
Yet it seems that neither the IMF, nor most financial experts, nor many nations learned this lesson.
We should put our ancient animosities behind us to attend to the problems our two nations face.”
Unlike the US, which has been engineering a strategic “pivot” from one geographic region to another, China is rebalancing from “politics among nations” to “politics among networks,” focusing on “connectivity” rather than “control.”
Because those nations - among the poorest in Africa - have an unresolved border dispute that led to a 1998-2000 war in which tens of thousand died on both sides and hostilities in the area continue, their involvement, by proxy, in the Somali civil war may have grave implications for the entire Horn of Africa.
Fragile treaties that cover this are enforced mostly by the fact that few nations can afford to place assets that high.
Soon nations will colonize the moon, giving rise to the same unsatisfactory and tentative situation we have in Antarctica, where nations essentially take without legally owning.
Abba Eban: The Voice of IsraelFor almost two generations, Abba Eban was Israel's voice - its messenger to the high and mighty among the nations as well as to the Jewish people all over the world.
Larger and more powerful nations were envious of so a powerful spokesman, and his speeches became textbook models for statesmen and diplomats in distant lands.
But there are nonetheless striking similarities in the crises that have bedeviled the two African nations.
China also managed to convince three nations to shift loyalty away from Taipei's meager diplomatic corps during President Chen's three years in office.
“Second, though we have closed the prisons, we must seek the forgiveness of our fellow nations for the horrors that we committed or with which we colluded by engaging in state-sanctioned torture and “extraordinary rendition” of detainees to countries that torture.
Many Western nations react to perceived flaws by drawing back somewhat from capitalism through increased public sector employment, public expenditure, and social control over the private sector.
In their recent bestselling economic history, Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson cite many past and current cases in which powerful individuals attain control over the state and use this power to enrich themselves.
The likelihood is that early next year most of the European Union’s member nations will recognize the Albanian-majority enclave on Serbia’s southern edge as an independent state.
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