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If Brown is to gain legitimacy, he must offer something new; but he can do that only by distinguishing himself from the Blair legacy in clearly perceptible – and therefore fairly
radical
– ways.
Beyond more aggressive tactics, his
radical
new strategy entailed a fundamental revolution in sports education and training, with programs that identified and propelled promising young players through the teams in Germany’s domestic league.
The attacks were largely conducted by a small set of young men who are receptive to the kind of radical, simplistic ideologies that have gained traction in the region, owing to dire political and socioeconomic circumstances.
If we are witnessing this kind of transformation, then piecemeal reformers who try to address specific grievances about immigration, trade, or income inequality will lose out to
radical
politicians who challenge the entire system.
But deploying such
radical
policies would mean rejecting the theories that have dominated economics since the 1980s, together with the institutional arrangements based upon them, such as Europe’s Maastricht Treaty.
Recently, a few writers, including internet entrepreneur Peter Thiel and political activist and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, have espoused a fairly
radical
interpretation of the slowdown.
As such, they are unlikely to see any sustained pickup in productivity growth without
radical
changes in innovation policy.
For years, Iran’s “conservative radicals” – a concept that combines extreme conservatism in matters of faith and philosophy with
radical
views on violence – have argued that negotiation and rapprochement with the US are foolish and futile.
That would be a grave error, given that any kind of cooperation with Russia wouldn’t contain or end the war in Syria: In fact, there is reason to fear the opposite: Any military cooperation with Assad – which is Putin’s aim and price tag – would drive a large majority of Sunni Muslims into the arms of
radical
Islamists.
It has become taboo to describe homosexuality as a “perversion,” though this was precisely the word used in the 1960’s by the
radical
philosopher Herbert Marcuse (who was praising homosexuality as an expression of dissent).
It did not mean the attainment of
radical
equality, but acceptance of Keynesian economics, the pursuit of full employment, the expansion of public education and pensions.
But the
radical
policy upheavals predicted by analysts will prove to be small tremors.
Consider the public confrontation between Ralf Dahrendorf, a member of the Free Democratic Party, and the
radical
left-wing student leader Rudi Dutschke outside a FDP conference in Freiburg.
Many establishment leaders nowadays – the so-called elites who are the standard-bearers of the liberal democratic order – seem to believe that the risks of engaging with
radical
figures are too great: more exposure could mean more legitimacy.
Letting
radical
movements run their course, as some have suggested, is both reckless and dangerous, given the amount of damage they can do before they fail.
To fulfill their responsibility as stewards of the public good, cultural and political “elites” must eschew elitism and find formats and formulas that enable more constructive engagement among diverse groups, including – as difficult as it may be –
radical
and populist movements.
Now that we are entering the euro’s third decade, it is worth noting that Portugal, Spain, and Greece are all governed by
radical
socialists who have abandoned the concept of fiscal responsibility, which they call “austerity policy.”
But this presupposes a
radical
change of heart, particularly in Germany.
Iran under a new and more
radical
president is moving irresistibly towards possessing a nuclear capacity.
Indeed, just as many supporters of
radical
leftist parties in the 1930s made a U-turn and ended up supporting authoritarian parties of the right, the economic ideologies of today’s populist parties seem to converge in many ways.
From the first popular election to the European parliament in 1979, until the latest one in 2014, the Party of European Socialists (PES) and the European Peoples’ Party (EPP) jointly received between one-half and two-thirds of the vote (with the rest going to centrists, the Greens, the
radical
left, and, increasingly, a new breed of Euroskeptic parties).
The left has largely split between a (much weakened) moderate wing and a radical, partly anti-European tendency.
The Italian governing coalition hints at such a scenario, while the increasingly anti-immigration stance of Sahra Wagenknecht of Die Linke (The Left) and fiercely anti-European diatribes by Jean-Luc Mélenchon of La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) suggest that some
radical
leftists would rather lose their souls than the working class.
By contrast, since the Bastille Day massacre in Nice – where an attacker, having received help from five men better described as criminals than as
radical
Islamists, barreled a truck into a crowd, killing 84 people, many of them children – the dominant feelings seem to be impotence and anger.
If people feel that their leaders are failing to protect them, they may turn to more
radical
alternatives; already, populist and even overtly racist political parties are gaining traction in France and elsewhere.
Rather, it is to create channels through which people who recognize
radical
or violent leanings in someone they know can report their concerns.
A more
radical
proposal would convert the tax deduction into a means-tested and refundable matching government contribution – deposited directly into a taxpayer’s individual retirement account (IRA).
Managing this quiet revolution calls for nothing short of a new international system, with a
radical
revision of existing institutions and patterns of doing business.
But an increased American presence could provoke
radical
groups, while requiring defense resources that are needed to support US interests in East and Southeast Asia.
To overcome this challenge, emerging-market governments should consider
radical
reforms in education and training in urban public health and health care.
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