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But herein lies the problem for state capitalism: inclusive institutions require a private sector powerful enough to counterbalance and check the state.
The US should recognize that, while still globally powerful, it must now lead more by influence and persuasion, and less by holding fast to the rules and customs set 70 years ago, when it was, for all practical purposes, the sole creditor backing the creation of new international financial institutions.
These powerful symbolic gestures will have both short- and long-term effects.
Of course, the powerful have always encroached on the sovereignty of others.
Powerful nations, by virtue of contributing senior personnel and money, gain greater access.
This may not be in the immediate individual interest of every state, especially big and powerful ones, but is, in the long run, in the enlightened interest of all of humanity collectively.
Some argue that in the US and elsewhere the human rights regime is so powerful and pervasive that trade unionism is no longer necessary or even desirable.
This was followed by an embarrassing surrender to the demand of protestors that a powerful new anti-corruption agency be established.
That is not a systemic bug; it’s a powerful feature – one that leaders today should be using to its fullest extent.
Europe needs leadership, and its institutions require its member states – particularly the most powerful ones – to address an issue that goes to the heart of the values we profess to hold.
Over the next 50 years or so, as AI and machine learning become more powerful, human labor will be cannibalized by technologies that outperform people in nearly every job function.
Sanctions may, however, persuade some other powerful constituencies within Iran, namely the clerics, the businessmen of the bazaar, and political conservatives, to turn on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Revolutionary Guard base.
As Britain has just discovered in the EU budget debate, it can make powerful allies.
There are too many rifts and weaknesses on one side, and too powerful an illusion of strength on the other, for talks to yield anything of value.
Long the most powerful driver of Chinese growth, there is now considerable downside to an export-led impetus.
For an expanding set of private firms, the main source of pressure has been technological, particularly those advances underpinned by the increasingly powerful mix of artificial intelligence, big data, and mobility.
You may imagine, then, the powerful memories that I felt when I visited the Mwandama Millennium Village in the deeply impoverished southern African country of Malawi.
Indeed, often it is the state itself, now controlled by a powerful president, that mobilizes chosen groups, aided by the concentration of enormous resources in the government’s hands which has arisen due to greater state intervention in the economy.
Order never just emerges; it is the result of conscious efforts by the most powerful entities in the world.
While the US remains the world’s most powerful single country, it cannot maintain, much less expand, international peace and prosperity on its own.
The result, skeptics say, is that AIIB-financed rail and road projects will lead only to China, while recipients grow more dependent – and not just financially – on their powerful funder.
On the available evidence, then, skeptics of the Kyoto Treaty appear to have a powerful case.
The simple fact is that the president of one of the world’s most powerful countries has embarked on a path of confrontation with the entire international community.
All of this points to a powerful conclusion: the UK’s centralist, Whitehall-dominated constitution – which evolved during the First Industrial Revolution, when London’s political power was matched by the north and Midlands’ greater economic power – is not suited to today’s world.
The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network is a powerful effort to mobilize global knowledge to save the planet.
With more green investments coming to the fore, those financing them will, we should hope, counterbalance powerful lobbying by the coal industry, which is willing to put the world at risk to advance its shortsighted interests.
While the language is complex – inviting costly lawsuits pitting powerful corporations against poorly financed governments – even regulations protecting the planet from greenhouse-gas emissions are vulnerable.
In 2016, we should hope for the TPP’s defeat and the beginning of a new era of trade agreements that don’t reward the powerful and punish the weak.
Wherever powerful lobbies defend existing coal or oil interests, politicians typically are afraid to tell the truth about the need for low-carbon energy.
Brave politicians who do tell the truth about climate change are found mainly in countries that do not have a powerful fossil-fuel lobby.
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