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Sadat’s peace overtures were defeated not because they lacked merit, but because Egypt was perceived as not having a military option to back them up.
At first glance, this option – which was originally proposed by China, and has since been endorsed by Russia – appears to be a sensible compromise.
If EU member states believe that taking America to court is too confrontational, they have the lesser option of asking the United Nations to seek an advisory opinion from the ICJ on the compatibility of the NSA’s alleged activities with the Vienna Convention.
Floating the renminbi, for example, is a dangerous option.
One option would be greater federalism.
A better option would be to move toward a more flexible eurozone, in which elected national representatives have a greater say.
One option is to do nothing, or little.
With its huge state enterprise sector and pervasive restrictions on just about anything, China has only one option: radical transformation of its economy.
Thus, politically, a hard Brexit is actually the soft option for the government.
If the latter, the best course of action would be to save the additional income or use it, as a second-best option, to reduce the national debt.
The third option, acquisition of nuclear armaments by potentially threatened countries, was based on the assumption that a government would be willing to use such weapons to defend its own country, if not another one.
This option, too, carries grave risks.
While the Chinese may have good reasons to prefer the status quo on the Korean Peninsula, continuing to indulge the North Korean leadership’s nuclear ambitions is a risky option.
Symmetrical reflation is the best option for restoring growth and competitiveness on the eurozone's periphery while undertaking necessary austerity measures and structural reforms.
Unfortunately, Germany and the ECB oppose this option, owing to the prospect of a temporary dose of modestly higher inflation in the core relative to the periphery.
The bitter medicine that Germany and the ECB want to impose on the periphery – the second option – is recessionary deflation: fiscal austerity, structural reforms to boost productivity growth and reduce unit labor costs, and real depreciation via price adjustment, as opposed to nominal exchange-rate adjustment.
The problems with this option are many.
If the peripheral countries remain mired in a deflationary trap of high debt, falling output, weak competitiveness, and structural external deficits, eventually they will be tempted by a third option: default and exit from the eurozone.
Avoiding it would compel the eurozone's core economies to embrace the fourth and final option: bribing the periphery to remain in a low-growth uncompetitive state.
Having been left outside the club, these countries have no option but to self-insure by accumulating foreign-exchange reserves.
One option is higher inflation.
A second option is to issue more equity.
When Justine Greening, one of May’s recently sacked cabinet ministers, became the first senior Conservative to propose this option, the objections raised to it were no longer about the principle of a second referendum, but about the difficulty of deciding the right question and method of casting votes.
Labour opposition makes every Brexit option almost certain to be blocked.
This leaves one final option: a parliamentary rebellion to stop Brexit.
But all serious Brexiteers, plus the vast majority of Conservative MPs and the Labour leadership, who feel obliged to follow the “instructions” of the 2016 referendum obviously will not support this option.
But, crucially, the Liberals and Scottish Nationalists would enthusiastically support a referendum as long as it offered voters the option of keeping Britain in the EU.
But, before it can exercise any option credibly, India needs a stable government.
But the European authorities have a third option in the event of a Greek default.
The European Commission’s insistence on a “backstop option” would already ensure that a “common regulatory area” is maintained even after the UK formally withdraws.
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