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The paradox is that these countries would probably not contemplate such increases in the absence of NATO membership.
The paradox here is that parties have become more tribal having lost their ideological distinctiveness.
In short, the eurozone's periphery is now subject to the paradox of thrift: increasing savings too much, too fast leads to renewed recession and makes debts even more unsustainable.
And that paradox is now affecting even the core.
This is a paradox intrinsic to democracy, and it is the duty of politicians to deal with the tensions to which it gives rise.
Which brings me to the paradox of ignorance in our era: on the one hand, we are constantly bombarded by expert opinion, by all sorts of people – with or without Ph.D. after their name – who tell us exactly what to think (though rarely why we should think it).
You can think of the paradox in another way: we live in an era when knowledge – in the sense of information – is constantly available in real time through computers, smart phones, electronic tablets, and book readers.
This is in line with the so-called Solow computer paradox: productivity gains lag behind technological advances – a notable phenomenon during the digital revolution.
But the paradox is more apparent than real.
The sad paradox, however, is that, as economic integration among China, Japan, and South Korea has deepened, and even as their security risks have sometimes merged, their diplomatic ties have deteriorated.
This is the paradox of the 1930’s.
The paradox is that, though the threat to both countries is the same, each is worsening the outlook for the other by the policies they are pursuing.
Prominent among those who anxiously await a solution to this paradox are the newest members of the Atlantic alliance.
Reigniting South African GrowthJOHANNESBURG – A paradox of Sub-Saharan Africa’s rapid economic expansion is the fact that the region’s most sophisticated economy seems not to be part of it.
Africa is a paradox.
Moreover, the brutal paradox of climate change is that heavy precipitation is occurring more often as well, increasing the risk of flooding.
To explain the apparent paradox, they cite these voters’ ignorance, irrationality, or racism.
One need only listen to the pellucid wonders of Furtwangler's concerts in the 1940s or recall that it was under the Occupation that French drama -- Claudel, Sartre, Montherlant -- reached new heights, to experience the paradox.
That choice gave rise to a seeming paradox: North Korea gained surprisingly powerful influence over China.
The unfortunate paradox in Georgia – and elsewhere in the post-Soviet world – is that self-serving pro-Western rhetoric has often led democratic values to be sacrificed in favor of a new dictatorship.
But even here there is a paradox for the regime.
So here is the second paradox: both large and small EU countries imagine that they can optimize their relative leverage by adopting inter-governmentalist positions.
The paradox of South Asia is that growth has been instrumental in reducing poverty and improving social outcomes, but poverty rates and social outcomes have not improved fast enough to reduce the total number of people living in misery.
At the heart of India’s current malaise is a paradox: rapid growth in real income has not been matched by genuine advances in living standards.
One way to think about this paradox is in terms of the closing of a four-century-long parenthesis.
For example, the so-called “voting paradox” presented by Condorcet showed that majority rule can reach an impasse when every alternative is defeated in voting by some other alternative, so that no alternative is capable of standing up to the challenge of every other alternative.
The paradox is that, despite Britain's opt-out, EMU is turning out to be the detonator of the decisive political clash now brewing.
The paradox of fire stems from its role as the great shape-shifter of natural processes.
The paradox of American power is that the strongest country since the days of Rome cannot achieve its objectives acting alone.
First, Moravec’s paradox applies.
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