Prospect
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If Obama follows his instinct, pays attention to Main Street rather than Wall Street, and acts boldly, then there is a
prospect
that the economy will start to emerge from the downturn by late 2009.
In the former, the
prospect
of a Security Council veto prevented action, and a regional organization (NATO) acted without UN authorization.
But it does mean that the time has come for a diplomatic approach that does not depend on the
prospect
of Russia’s economic collapse.
Perhaps the most worrying
prospect
is that Medvedev could learn all of Putin’s bad habits and none of his good ones.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea, undertaken in open contempt of international law, has put European security back at the top of the global agenda, serving as a stark reminder that a free, cooperative, and peaceful Europe – the dream of countless Europeans since the 1950’s – remains a distant
prospect.
Add to that the potential deployment of a US-led missile-defense system in South Korea and the
prospect
of a US military presence in Vietnam, and it is not difficult to understand China’s anxiety.
Will you rejoice at the
prospect
that your financing costs will fall?
But the fact that a Bolsonaro presidency would not be part of a broader right-wing populist wave in Latin America does not make the
prospect
any less dangerous for Brazil.
After the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the shutdown of much of New York City by Sandy in 2012, the devastation wrought on Texas by Harvey, and now the
prospect
of Irma pummeling Florida, the US can and should do better.
A massive wave of immigration would fill the gap, but that
prospect
meets strong political resistance in most countries concerned.
There has been another avenue to cutting short diplomacy with Iran: Israel, which would lie within range of a nuclear-armed Iranian missile, and therefore is most threatened by that
prospect.
The
prospect
of NATO expansion caused Russia’s Duma to balk at approving the Start II treaty, which would cut the number of nuclear weapons aimed at North America.
The
prospect
of joining the European Union helped consolidate democracy in central and eastern Europe, and in Turkey, too.
Second, the benefits of mitigating emissions of GHGs are so overwhelming that this, combined with the
prospect
of the harm resulting from inaction, makes it imperative for the world to devise an international response and a plan of action.
Following that visit – the culmination of an effort to bring about regime change in Syria – any
prospect
of dialogue or negotiation with Assad (whose family, for better or worse, had controlled Syria for decades) was destroyed.
And the
prospect
of the House Judiciary Committee taking up the question of impeachment has grown stronger with the latest accusations.
For me, it would be political suicide to allow a Chinese company to
prospect
YPF control rights after the nationalization announcement.”
Though tensions between China and its neighbors over territorial claims in the East and South China Seas have receded somewhat in recent months, the
prospect
of worsening Sino-Japanese relations, in particular, remains worrisome.
Ukraine’s industries need to modernize, not become more addicted to cheap gas, and gas transit will become almost as monopolistic as gas supply – a dismal prospect, given past cut-offs of gas supplies between Russia and Europe.
The SPD will recoil at the prospect, sit on the fence, and finally give in, because Merkel has a powerful disciplinary instrument: she could call a new election, in which the CDU would probably win an outright majority.
There is an even more alarming
prospect
on the horizon: an alliance between authoritarian states and large, data-rich IT monopolies, bringing together nascent systems of corporate surveillance with already-developed systems of state-sponsored surveillance.
The European Union surely had the best of intentions in negotiating an Association Agreement with Ukraine, but that
prospect
had the unintended effect of setting off alarms in the Kremlin, which instantly put Yanukovych in a quandary.
After Mubarak’s ouster last year, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei welcomed the
prospect
of Islamist rule, with delegations from both countries exchanging visits.
For Japan and other US allies, an isolationist America remains a distant
prospect.
The
prospect
of a Middle East conflagration has prompted an airlift of senior American officials to Israel to warn of the devastating consequences that an Israeli attack on Iran might have.
But the need for spending cuts also raises the
prospect
that the US might be unable to finance a military shift toward the Asia-Pacific region – or, worse, that it will be forced to retrench there.
Europeans now face the
prospect
of being left behind by both the US and China, not only geopolitically, but also in the key economic sector of the twenty-first century: artificial intelligence.
With the
prospect
of entry into the EU, national markets matter less.
The
prospect
of a China-led AI revolution poses both opportunities and challenges.
Drawn from traditional “just war” theory, R2P rests not only on right intentions, but also on the existence of a reasonable
prospect
of success.
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