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It is only a question of time – no longer very much time – before economic destabilization gives rise to political instability.
On the positive side, it is likely to produce the political cohesion needed to implement structural reforms that shift the economy away from trade and manufacturing and toward domestic consumption.
As different interest groups and factions unite against a common foe, President Xi Jinping will gain even more political capital, facilitating the shift from export-led economic growth to a trade-neutral model.
Whether Trump’s trade war is about containing China or just about punishing it for its trade practices, the unintended consequence is that China is now fortifying itself for a new era of political and economic challenges.
Traditionally, countries’ global political power was assessed according to military might: the one with the largest army had the most power.
Nye argues that a country’s soft power arises from “its culture (in places where it is attractive to others), its political values (when it lives up to them at home and abroad), and its foreign policies (when they are seen as legitimate and having moral authority.)”
A system that promised a level playing field on which anyone could fulfill their aspirations is being denounced by its own political leaders as stacked against ordinary citizens.
For example, political obstacles to comprehensive economic policymaking in many advanced economies have undermined the implementation of structural reforms and responsive fiscal policies in recent years, holding back business investment, undermining productivity growth, worsening inequality, and threatening future potential growth.
Such economic lapses have contributed to the emergence of anti-establishment political movements that are looking to change – or are already changing – long-established cross-border trade relations, including those within the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Against this background, it should not be surprising that globalization and regionalization no longer command the degree of support they once did – or that some rising political movements on both sides of the Atlantic are condemning both concepts to win more support for their own causes.
Another disadvantage of derivatives is that they require a high degree of sophistication –both technical and political.
Although it illuminated the flaws of America’s political system, it also restored my belief in the compassion of ordinary Americans.
So, to explain the gap between Europe and the US on farm animal welfare, we should look to the political system.
The animal welfare movement, despite its broad public support, has been unable to compete in the arena of political lobbying and campaign donations.
Political discussions tend to revolve around three key issues: immigration controls, access to the single market, and passporting rights for financial services.
This may sound legalistic, and it certainly reflects political motivations.
Given the political and security imperatives of the crisis in Ukraine, however, the alternative is worse.
Doing nothing means allowing US investment funds to pursue enormous compensation cases – likely in the billions of dollars – against a future Ukrainian administration, which, even in the best-case scenario, will be on weak domestic political footing and already saddled with an unpopular austerity program and loan-repayment schedule.
Though all of these elements are essential to an effective strategy, a political consensus will not be easy to achieve.
For more than four decades after Independence in 1947, India suffered from the economics of nationalism, which equated political independence with economic self-sufficiency and so relegated the country to bureaucratic protectionism and stagnation.
This means changes in Israeli military policy, travel restrictions, and political posturing, and an end to one-upmanship by both sides.
The global financial crisis, and the botched recovery thereafter, put wind in the sails of political extremism.
To be sure, this explosion of political extremism cannot be explained by economic distress alone.
Historically, that of course includes the Nazis, who were National Socialists, and Mussolini, who began his political life as a socialist activist.
But history suggests that nationalists have the most to gain from episodes of political and social breakdown.
But so does the legitimacy and adaptability of the established political system, the scope of welfare provision, electoral politics and political leadership, and the international context.
Likewise, preserving today’s good politics also requires that we give urgent attention to four topics: the political and social limits of globalization; the financialization of the real economy; the role of fiscal and monetary policy; and the delinking of rewards from work in an era of accelerating automation.
Though the region’s countries have the means to stop the growing political, economic, and human-rights catastrophe in Venezuela, they lack the will, while the rest of the world’s attention to Ukraine has removed any pressure on them to act.
At a time when many people are despairing about current political trends, the penultimate paragraph of On What Matters, Volume Three encourages us to take a longer and more optimistic perspective:“Life can be wonderful as well as terrible, and we shall increasingly have the power to make life good.
Yet it is extraordinary how little political time or energy we devote to doing so.
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