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It is possible, of course, that the United States will solve its political problems and finally adopt the stimulus measures that it needs to bring down unemployment to 6% or 7% (the pre-crisis level of 4% or 5% is too much to hope for).
As a result, global economic rebalancing is likely to accelerate, almost inevitably giving rise to political tensions.
The main factors undermining the prospects for US prosperity are mostly the result of its own political decisions.
Since 2012, this small group of journalists-turned-online activists has used social media to campaign for political freedoms and civil liberties in their country.
Ethiopia’s government is not alone in seeking to consolidate political power by restricting what citizens say online.
For decades, Mugabe has relied on intimidation and violence to stifle political dissent.
Last year, his government shut down the Internet in the middle of political protests, and vowed to arrest anyone caught generating or sharing “abusive or subversive material on social media.”
Although the UN Human Rights Council’s resolution to protect online freedoms is not binding, it offers a starting point for ensuring that governments allow citizens to use the Internet as a tool for maximizing political participation.
This suggests another reason why the US-Iran confrontation could lead to lower, not higher, prices: Trump and his Saudi allies now have a very strong political incentive to resist further upward pressure on oil prices.
Past experience suggests that US and Saudi political interests are likely to prevail, at least in the short term.
Political scientists tell us that rentier economies, or economies that depend on oil and foreign aid, stimulate greed and grievances.
Social and political mobility become extremely limited, and societies turn from production to consumption.
Rent-seeking tends to lead to policy failure in the form of intense political competition aimed at gaining short-term access to revenues and benefits, as opposed to political competition over what policies might be in the long-term public interest.
The report challenges the core principles of a faith-driven administration and of a president whose political gospel led him to a sharp departure from the culture of conflict resolution in favor of a crusade based on raw power.
All the problems of the Middle East – Iraq, the Arab-Israeli dispute, the need for political reforms, and Islamic terrorism – are interconnected.
As a result, fiscal uncertainty is affecting all major industrial countries, and producing political paralysis.
During the Great Depression, a spiral of protectionist trade quotas and tariff restrictions was used to combat monetary deflation, as popular demand for political action met legislative “log-rolling” by representatives of groups with very different – and often very locally oriented – policy priorities.
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Now is the moment to launch an analogous effort to reform and rationalize the political process that produces fiscal policy.
And with the prospect of general elections in 1998, the political front is infinitely less quiet than in Germany.
Economic and political fluctuations are not unusual.
Most important, a modicum of sanity has been restored to the US political process.
For more than a half-century, no US president was willing to pay the political price for admitting failure and resuming diplomatic relations with the island.
A US president can challenge political constraints only by taking on powerful lobbies.
Likewise, President George H.W. Bush could not have dragged the recalcitrant Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to the Madrid Peace Conference in October 1991 had he not been willing to take on what he described as “some powerful political forces” made up of “a thousand lobbyists on the Hill.”
Indeed, predictions that Cuba might now shift toward a Chinese-style model of political autocracy and economic opening might be accurate only in the short term.
That is the question confronting Russians today, and we fear that their fate will be the latter: if oil prices remain at $70-80 per barrel, Russia is likely to relive key features of the Brezhnev era of the 1970’s and 1980’s – with a stagnating economy and 70-80% approval ratings for its political leaders.
The resource curse means, of course, that Russian elites will prefer to postpone restructuring the economy and modernizing the country’s political and economic institutions.
But the incentives to escape the resource trap are weakened by the overwhelming importance of the resource rents to the wider political elite.
But now the talks are running on fumes, with sniping on both sides and the political window for an agreement closing fast.
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