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With interest rates on government bonds in the US, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland at ridiculously low levels, investors are on a global quest for yield.
Known as the North Korea of Europe until the early 1990s, when Albania abandoned its quixotic quest for autarky, it started cutting and sowing garments and shoes for Italian manufacturers, gradually evolving its own fully integrated companies.
In some of the world’s poorest countries, central bankers have proved willing to make bold decisions – embracing innovative approaches in their quest to broaden participation in the formal financial system, increase financial stability, and put their countries on the path to inclusive, sustainable economic growth.
The first change is the escalation of efforts by the United States and its Western allies to abort the Iranian regime’s nuclear quest.
The extent to which policymaking by the country’s new leader, Xi Jinping, takes into account the insecurity felt by China’s neighbors – and abandons a quest for absolute security for China – will be one of the key variables influencing East Asia’s security environment in the years ahead.
But the US has flatly rejected China’s proposal, ostensibly because it seems to morally conflate North Korea’s quest for weapons of mass destruction (which it appears fully prepared to use) with America’s right to defend itself and its allies.
Fundamental values are also at stake for the EU, whose members, ironically, have in some cases actively supported the US in its quest to extradite Snowden, despite being victims of America’s alleged breaches of international law.
Bartholomew’s conference opened at the Acropolis, the very heart of ancient Athens, where 2,300 years ago Aristotle defined ethics and politics as the quest for wellbeing.
For starters, she frames her quest in terms of outdated, unappealing, and irrelevant rhetoric.
After monetarism was discredited – at great cost to those countries that succumbed to it – the quest began for a new mantra.
One does not naturally associate China with the quest for compassion.
Much of the history of the two centuries since Beethoven composed his opera has centered on that quest for freedom: the fight against colonial powers, the campaigns for basic human rights, the resistance to modern totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.
In a quest for economies of scale and a strategic repositioning of facilities in order to survive in a world of fast growing competitive pressures, globalization adds to the process of corporate restructuring, mergers, and acquisitions.
Indeed, Japan’s quest to re-establish its own military capability is a vote of limited confidence in its US ally.
If the quest is for a way of securing perpetual security or dominance, then the answer is “no.”
It does not enjoy the massive backing of its society, except when it comes to national pride and the quest for nuclear status.
In its quest to rebuild Russia’s geopolitical power and influence, Presdient Vladimir Putin has the support of the immense majority of the population.
In their quest for post-Soviet stability, Russians seem to have found reassurance in Putin.
But the bloodstained shambles of the US occupation led America to abandon the quest for democracy.
The North Korean regime, led by Kim Jong-un, is engaged in a remorseless quest to develop nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles capable of delivering them.
Among non-democracies, China had the Bo Xilai scandal, which was worthy of a spy novel, with illicit affairs, rampant corruption, murder, and a senior police official’s dramatic quest for asylum in a US consulate.
Their quest for mythic, messianic, transnational movements of liberation remains the same, as does the enemy: America's imperial colossus.
With the rise of political leaders who had not witnessed the terrifying consequences of WWII, it was inevitable that Germany’s emotional bond with its European mission – born of guilt and the quest for redemption – should gradually disappear.
The same could be said of the current conflict between Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the West: It is, at root, a collision between the West’s supposedly universal values and Russia’s quest for a distinct identity.
The resurgence of Islamism is essentially a quest for a fulfilling identity by an ancient civilization overwhelmed by the challenges of modernity.
This amounts to an alarming quest for control over a strategically crucial corridor through which $5.3 trillion in trade flows each year.
The current regime in Syria, in its ruthless quest to remain in power, refuses to acknowledge peaceful protesters' demands for freedom and dignity.
The existence of thousands of unemployed young people, without income or roots, idle and knowing only violence to express their quest for recognition, is not particularly French.
It will be a challenge, but a gradual, well-designed, and properly communicated set of policies could accelerate the quest for more sustainable sources of energy.
Though now better off than they have ever been in material terms, the Chinese people under the current regime are denied any real opportunity to retain and refine their own dignity beyond the quest for wealth and luxury goods.
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