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To preserve the appearance that their meddling is benign, senior military officers probably know that they cannot afford to install another general as president.
In the end, the country has built a thriving economy and a well-established democracy capable of dealing with calamities such as the global financial crisis and the tragic death of the country’s president last year.
Sukarno, Indonesia’s first president after independence, adopted a confrontational stance, making Indonesia a leader of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Not coincidentally, Bush’s administration included ten of the 25 signatories of the PNAC founding statement of principles, including Dick Cheney as vice president and Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense.
The US Election and the Global EconomySTANFORD – Big changes are underway in the United States, as the country gears up to elect a new president, one-third of the Senate, and the entire House of Representatives this November.
By appointing a new Fed Chair (or reappointing Janet Yellen), and possibly other Fed governors, the next president will have an indirect influence on interest rates, exchange rates, and global financial markets.
A sort of beefed-up Juncker plan (the European Commission president’s scheme to invest €315 billion over three years), based on preselected projects to be activated when the time is right, would provide a significant hedge against the risk of recession.
And he has been exploring what the president can and cannot do – including calling referenda – without permission from parliament.
Indeed, from the EU’s perspective, a hostile president in France, the country of Jean Monnet, would be far more destructive than Brexit.
Increasingly, the battle over the US government’s debt ceiling reflects a deeper constitutional power struggle between the president and Congress.
Finally, different clans around the president have long been trying to promote their own candidates for succession.
At the moment, who will succeed Putin is not important; what counts is the process that will result in the choice of Russia’s third president.
The real historical significance of the choice that Russia will face in 2008 will be determined not by the next president’s personal qualities, but by his loyalties – that is, to whom he owes his job.
Thus, the implementation of Operation Successor (which may include the extension of the current president’s term) has imitated the way Putin himself came to power, and leaves Russia on the same path that Yeltsin set in the last years of his presidency – a path that will either ruin the country or bring it to a dead end.
If the next president comes to power by means of a free and fair election, Russia will have a real chance at a decent future.
The Eurozone Must Reform or DieOXFORD – With the election of a reform-minded centrist president in France and the re-election of German Chancellor Angela Merkel seeming ever more likely, is there hope for the stalled single-currency project in Europe?
This is the narrative being promoted by America’s new president, Donald Trump, who has declared his support for the British and his expectation that more countries will follow suit.
Its decision to cut rates by 25 basis points at the first policy meeting under its new president, Mario Draghi, is the one ray of light in an otherwise darkening sky.
That opens the way to the possible return for a second term of José Manuel Barroso as president of the Commission.
That is why, after being elected for his third (illegal) term as president, Putin asserted full control over the Russian Academy of Sciences.
America’s Trouble with ChinaWASHINGTON, DC – Xi Jinping, China’s newly anointed president, made his first visit to the United States in May 1980.
Now, with a Republican majority in the Senate and a Republican president in the White House, those plans can provide the basis for legislative action.
Those votes may have been merely symbolic, given Obama’s veto power; nonetheless, the striking fact remains that the Republicans never bothered to try to formulate an alternative in the event that one of their own would one day become president.
Reinventing the World Bank, AgainMADRID – With three nominees now in the running to become the World Bank’s next president – Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Colombian Finance Minister José Antonio Ocampo, and the United States’ nominee, Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim – this is the moment to step back and assess the Bank’s trajectory.
Unless the Bank’s next president has a clear vision of the way ahead, and the gravitas to withstand the institution’s internal pressures, he or she will be swallowed up by its complex machinery and unwieldy processes.
Ironically, the same World Bank whose former president, Robert McNamara, transformed it almost five decades ago, at the height of decolonization, into a key instrument in the fight against communism, today views the so-called “Beijing Consensus,” by which the Chinese Communist Party maintains an iron grip on the country, as a viable development model.
The mandate of the Bank’s next president will be crucial in making or breaking an institution that the world desperately needs in the century ahead.
Most members of the president’s large cabinet are seat warmers.
That’s why, in 2009, at his first global summit as US president, Barack Obama joined then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to spearhead the G20’s upgrade, making it the world’s preeminent economic forum.
If a US president can so easily force one-sided amendments to settled agreements, why should any country bother negotiating with the US?
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