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As the three pillars of Western Middle East policy crumble, a new Middle East is taking shape, buffeted by Pacific trade winds and owing allegiance to more than one power.

Disbursal of relief funds to help Italy rebuild after severe floods in 2011 took almost a year, owing to politicization in the Council.

This is attributable to the destruction of capital – owing to two world wars, the 1929 stock-market crash, and inflation – as well as an historic move toward big government and progressive taxation.

In Iraq, after years of declining sectarian violence, the casualty figures are up again, in part owing to the war in neighboring Syria.

But these outcomes may actually have the opposite effect, owing to three key developments that could enable the revival of the WTO – and of the multilateralism that it embodies.

This influence is felt not just in particular communities, but throughout French political and civil society, owing to the rise of advocacy and activist organizations with obscure origins and funding, some of which promote the establishment of Sharia law.

It is clear that an overwhelming majority of Germans do not support the AfD, whose fortunes could soon fade, owing to a probable split in its leadership.

A handful of national leaders could veto the inclusion of migration, owing to misplaced fears of its domestic political consequences.

That $3.8 trillion net debt increase reflects a roughly $5 trillion increase in the deficit, owing to higher spending and weaker revenues from middle- and lower-income taxpayers, offset in part by $1.3 trillion in tax increases, primarily on high-income earners.

Building true military interoperability within the entente will not be easy, owing to the absence of a treaty relationship between the US and India, and to their forces’ different weapon systems and training.

Owing to its flawed design, the common currency now threatens to abort the very project of political union that it was meant to advance.

As growth slows throughout the region, owing to falling commodity prices and the end of quantitative easing in the United States, Colombia’s economy is actually accelerating.

These firms know that the return on their investment will be relatively low, owing to the long lead-in time that results from slow manufacturing processes (though new, faster methods offer some hope).

But there are concerns that these bonds of kizuna may also bind the Japanese economy, which must recover as soon as possible – not only for the benefit of the Japanese, but also because disruptions in Japan’s economy are hitting the rest of Asia, owing to the production chains of which Japan is an integral part.

For China, foreign trade as a percentage of GDP soared from 25% in 1989 to 66% in 2006, largely owing to its admission to the World Trade Organization in 2001.

Countries that produce and export more labor-intensive goods – perhaps owing to increased trade openness, or faster labor-force and productivity growth, all of which are true of China – may experience a rise in saving, but a less-than-equivalent increase in demand for capital.

The real problem is the over-treatment that follows, owing to the lack of reliable tests to differentiate observable lesions from those that actually require medical intervention.

Germany, owing to its history, is reticent about reclaiming a leading role on the world stage.

For example, domestic private investment remains weak, partly owing to overregulated services and heavy bureaucratic burdens.

In some ways, Germany has already moved beyond the point of no return on its path toward openness, owing to Merkel’s 2015 refugee policy.

Authoritarian regimes, owing to their lack of accountability, are dreadful at coping with anomalous situations.

The slump in demand is coming at a time when Russia is desperate for hard currency, owing to sanctions that exclude it from credit markets.

Nonetheless, Cuba is in trouble, owing to a crucial variable that probably motivated Castro’s decision: the recent collapse in the price of oil.

By the 1960’s, Germany had emerged as the strongest and most dynamic European economy, owing to robust export performance.

By the Great Depression, Germany was already trapped, owing to previous bad choices.

An estimated 1.4 billion people were still living in extreme poverty in 2005, and the number is likely to be higher today, owing to the global economic crisis.

In fact, few countries have ever really tried – and not owing only to a lack of resources.

For the moment, such immigration has almost stopped, owing to rapid economic growth – indeed, the fastest in Europe – in recent years, which is absorbing the country’s available labor and has thus stemmed the flow of emigrants.

The United States first tried to resolve the issue back in 1994, with the US-North Korean Agreed Framework; but that effort gradually collapsed, owing to actions taken – and not taken – on both sides.

Without greater short-term support for effective demand, many countries in crisis could face a downward spiral of spending cuts, reduced output, higher unemployment, and even greater deficits, owing to an increase in safety-net expenditures and a decline in tax revenues associated with falling output and employment.

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