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One has only to look at the Russian proposal’s fine print: Ukraine’s new federal units would have a powerful say over “Ukraine’s foreign-policy direction.”
But the terms that Russia is demanding, if accepted by the West, would fatally undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty; worse, accepting Russia’s terms would ratify the idea that powerful countries may bully less powerful neighbors into doing their bidding, to the point of surrendering their independence.
To understand why, we can appeal to game theory, which provides economists and others a powerful framework with which to explain the dynamics of both simple and complex interactions.
Periods of globalization have been eras of considerable economic advance; but they have also increased inequality within particular countries, as markets rewarded scarce factors of production, thus fueling powerful political backlashes that endangered the continuation of trade and financial integration.
Finally, top priority should be assigned to completing the Single European Market, in which the Union has powerful legal instruments to pry open markets and sustain competition.
In fact, powerful predators might be lurking around the nearest water cooler right now.
These programs produce powerful agents for community development in Burma, and can significantly improve the prospects for better governance.
US influence in Burma is unlikely to outweigh that of increasingly powerful Asian neighbors.
But, instead of wishing to attack them, the Japanese, being a practical people, decided that they would be better off cultivating those clever, powerful Jews as friends.
Hezbollah remains committed to Israel’s destruction, and Iran supplies it with powerful weapons.
MEMO TO ECB: DON’T FOLLOW THE FEDThe current dilemma of the US Federal Reserve of having to continue raising interest rates despite the hurricane-wounded US economy holds a powerful message for the European Central Bank.
In this way, a government that is exacting about the quality of its purchases can have a powerful impact on the evolution of its country’s comparative advantage.
In effect, by not accepting Saudi largesse the militant will be keeping food off his own family’s table – a powerful restraint in a culture and religion in which parents are highly regarded and respected.
All of us (including cartoonists) agree that cartoons are a powerful tool of communication.
The Kremlin TemptationPARIS – What is the significance of France’s recent sale of four powerful Mistral-class warships to Russia?
But of course, even the US Treasury, as powerful as it may be, cannot repeal the laws of economics.
Countries with smaller, more homogenous economies and undivided, powerful governments might not benefit from more decentralization and legislative review.
Let’s first dispense with a powerful emerging myth.
They would thus have a powerful incentive to impose controls on spending to insure that their claims could be met.
But the French Revolution also produced a powerful and attractive myth of social transformation.
But powerful countries such as the US and European Union members could have done much on their own to limit tax evasion – and the race to the bottom in corporate taxation – if they so desired.
Malaria-related health insurance costs for expatriate workers and their families provide a powerful disincentive for manufacturing activities.
Finally, Abe’s growth strategy demands a corporate-tax reduction – a powerful tool for increasing the tax base in a world in which countries are competing to attract multinational companies.
But their influence was powerful and lasting, and extended in directions that they could not have anticipated.
Women must be able to base their reproductive choices on their own physical and emotional needs and desires, not on the moral judgments of powerful agents or risk of criminal sanctions.
The proliferation of information technology, together with the unprecedented popular participation that it has fueled, means that electoral minorities have a growing number of increasingly powerful tools at their disposal to organize movements aimed at paralyzing their countries’ governments and even shortening leaders’ terms in office.
But doing that would require the government to abandon its ideological position and challenge powerful interest groups.
Killing Killer MosquitoesSINGAPORE – Mosquitoes may be tiny, but they have a powerful bite.
The United Nations system must be bolder, but powerful interests must also allow it to play a bigger role.
Once Bush’s re-election was secured, however, he had less incentive to seek the support of these powerful lobbies.
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