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If liberalism is to survive as a guiding framework for international relations, its
proponents
must tap into passions of their own.
Proponents
of such cross-fertilization point to outsiders or their descendants who have attained high positions in their adopted countries: a Latino member of the US Supreme Court, German constitutional lawyers of Turkish origin, French prefects whose parents and grandparents arrived from North Africa, British lords and baronesses with roots in Africa and the Caribbean, and Italian writers of Indian descent.
The descendants of slave traders and slave owners in the United States now have a black man as their president;Africa’s colonizers have all been defeated and kicked out; and apartheid’s
proponents
are now governed by those they despised and abused for generations.
All of which leads one to ask: What can Brexit’s
proponents
possibly be thinking?
While too rapid a rate of immigration can cause social problems,
proponents
argue that, over the long term, immigration strengthens the power of the US.
Some
proponents
of helicopter money, such as Adair Turner, former head of the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority, argue that this danger can be neutralized with clear rules to limit the use of monetary and fiscal stimulus.
While
proponents
admit that a world without nuclear weapons would not be without dangers - especially from governments that might decide to violate abolition agreements - these dangers rate far below the perils of living in the world of uncontrolled nuclear proliferation toward which the Indian tests point.
Proponents
of the post-American view point to the 2008 financial crisis, the prolonged recession that followed, and China’s steady rise.
Last month, during a public prayer in Ramallah, the Palestinian Minister of Religion, Mahmoud Habash, delivered a speech that gives hope to
proponents
of this solution.
Trade agreements, their
proponents
often argue, can help rein in such wasteful policies by making it harder for governments to dispense special favors to politically connected industries.
The South African bill’s
proponents
argue that it will replace the country’s obsolete, apartheid-era espionage law, and that it will allow officials to classify certain kinds of information as “secret” in order to combat national-security threats.
Proponents
of this view point to furious trading in New York and London, with average holding periods for major stocks diminishing in recent decades.
Assad wants nothing more than to see this affair forgotten – and the
proponents
of dialogue think that they can give him what he wants in the hope of breaking Syria’s alliance with Iran.
Assad’s recent refusal to attend a summit in Tehran with his Iranian and Iraqi counterparts was a mere tactical move designed to appeal to the
proponents
of dialogue.
Even the most vocal
proponents
of open data appear to have underestimated how many profitable ideas and businesses stand to be created.
The main reason that oil companies have become such strong
proponents
of CCS is that it offers them a source of subsidized CO2 for use in EOR.
Proponents
of this approach suggest that it could buy time for relevant countries to work out a more sustainable solution.
Proponents
of this view often argue that migrants drive down wages, particularly at the lower end of the income distribution, undermining natives’ living standards.
The scars from the post-2008 split between eurozone creditors and debtors are still visible, and a new fight pits advocates of the open society against
proponents
of identity politics.
Proponents
of carbon cuts argue that green-energy technologies only seem more expensive, because the price of fossil fuels does not reflect the cost of their impact on the climate.
This has two great advantages: it is difficult to test (so
proponents
of it cannot be easily contradicted) and it permits the economist to watch the “irrational” workings of the market with an air of detached conceit, without having to force himself to understand it.
Of course, if America’s strong patent regime were, as its
proponents
claim, the best way to foster innovation in the pharmaceutical industry, the Obama administration’s policy toward India could perhaps be justified.
The greatest winners in this situation are neither Great Britain nor the
proponents
of Brexit, but rather Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin.
Ironically, the only thing that might stop the system from continuing to work is the low confidence of its greatest
proponents.
Proponents
of global citizenship quickly concede that they do not have a literal meaning in mind.
So Argentina’s shale megaproject undermines efforts to address climate change, threatens local democracy and indigenous rights, and will not bring the economic benefits promised by its
proponents.
For Turkish
proponents
of democracy, the country’s best hope rested with Europe.
But despite protests by the yesterday’s
proponents
of deregulation, who would like the government to remain passive, most economists believe that government spending has made a difference, helping to avert another Great Depression.
Proponents
of this view also claim that the megabanks are managing risk better than they did before the global financial crisis erupted in 2008.
Such a tricameral legislature, its
proponents
believe, would better ensure that political decisions are made by more educated and enlightened representatives, thereby avoiding the rank populism of Western-style elected factions.
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