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True, the Fund has been notably soft on the United States of late, downplaying the continuing vulnerabilities posed by the gaping US current account and trade deficits.
A higher rate of global migration is desirable for four reasons: it is a source of innovation and dynamism; it responds to labor shortages; it meets the challenges posed by rapidly aging populations; and it provides an escape from poverty and persecution.
In other words, the government eliminates the threat posed by leading opposition figures by jailing them or forcing them into exile, regardless of their prominence.
After all, one of the lessons of the 1962 war was that a vacillating response to Chinese aggression is self-defeating, particularly in situations like that posed by the incursion at Daulat Beg Oldie.
That failure placed the world on the path to the negative watershed posed by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
Politicians warn of the challenge posed by Asia's "tiger economies".
But, while celebrity activists warn about the impending doom posed by climate change, a more realistic view is offered by these cities’ ability to cope.
But, resting on the laurels of the EU’s founders, successive European leaders largely failed to perceive the competitive challenges posed by globalization.
The post-1945 US role was challenged first by the Soviet Union, which, for a time, posed a real technological challenge.
Still, the biggest risk is posed by fiscal authorities, who tend to be more heavily influenced by political considerations.
Yet the threat posed by global warming is nonetheless real, and focusing on human CO2 emissions is not necessarily "bad science," just incomplete science.
This was a long, difficult process; but German society, mindful of its historical misdeeds, has become capable of confronting moral and political challenges of the type posed by the influx of refugees today.
Not long ago, I posed that question to a monetary-policy authority (whose name I am not at liberty to divulge).
America’s hypocrisy – advocating free trade but refusing to abandon subsidies on cotton and other agricultural commodities – had posed an insurmountable obstacle to the Doha negotiations.
The challenges posed by climate change are real, and the consequences of inaction are impossible to ignore.
Abe recognizes the new challenges posed by proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism, and has acknowledged the rising expectation, at home and abroad, that Japan’s contribution to international security must grow.
Amnesty International argues that human rights are more likely to be respected when the legal agreements behind major infrastructure projects are known in advance, and it apportions some of the responsibility for the dangers posed in Chad and Cameroon to the World Bank and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corporation.
This declaration of a “return to Asia” marked the start of the famous “pivot” to the Pacific in US foreign policy – a shift away from the Middle East that was intended to meet the challenges posed by China’s growing geopolitical ambitions.
Ever since the Stuxnet virus was used to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program in 2009-2010, governments have taken the threat posed by cyber weapons very seriously.
In 1931, the experts were preoccupied with the complexities posed by the combination of reparations and war debts arising out of World War I with large private-sector indebtedness.
The challenge posed by global climate change could have been addressed more effectively that way.
With the eurozone as a whole benefiting from a relatively solid balance-of-payments position, European leaders initially failed to foresee the risk incurred by letting competitiveness differentials grow, and underestimated the threat posed by some countries’ accumulation of significant external debt.
By recklessly denying China’s request to extradite Uighur extremists to China for trial, the US showed scant regard for an issue of paramount importance – the threat posed to China’s hard-won unity by separatists.
All of this uncertainty surrounding the world’s emerging and traditional superpowers has impeded efforts to address security challenges in the Middle East, from the enduring Israel-Palestine conflict and the aftermath of the Arab Spring to the new and potent threat posed by the Islamic State.
But the real danger – which even Hollande’s sternest critics may be underestimating – is not so much his individual policy failings (serious though they may be) as his approach to the twin challenges posed by France’s economic imbalances and the eurozone crisis.
Chief among these challenges is the threat posed by global warming, with China having surpassed the US as the leading producer of carbon-dioxide emissions (though not in per capita terms).
The international community has long been concerned about the threat posed by terrorism.
Only some stalwarts timidly point to the inflammatory question posed by Mack the Knife in Berthold Brecht’s Threepenny Opera: “What is a bank robbery compared to the founding of a bank?
Or a British exit from the EU may trigger European dis-integration, with the additional risks posed by the fact that some countries (the UK, Spain, and Belgium) are at risk of breaking up themselves.
The continuing failure of the post-colonial state, the threat posed by transnational armed groups, and the weakness of regional organizations obscure the nonchalance of major powers that now land troops with only a vague idea about what to do the morning after.
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