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They are both an asset for Italian democracy – because only something really disruptive can force real reform – and a clear liability.
But, as the “party of struggle,” it has its own populism – and a dismal 20-year record on reform – to blame.
Meanwhile, Monti paid the price of imposing austerity while enacting little reform.
Second, because reform has not delivered prosperity, the region has grown sick of reform.
In Latin America, things continue to fall apart: governments backtrack on reform and the economy loses ground to the rest of the world.
To succeed, Europe must equip itself with the necessary instruments: a large semi-public foundation to promote Europe and support political reform, a university to train future executives of nascent democracies, a police force, and an army of judges and magistrates to breathe life into the models that we want to emulate.
Without reform of the Pakistani army and ISI, there can be no end to transnational terrorism – and no genuine nation-building in Pakistan.
A democratic and European Turkey could be a bridge to deliver reform and modernity to the Muslim world; an alienated and authoritarian Turkey could bring conflict and strife back to Europe’s eastern borderlands.
In terms of fiscal policy, most advanced economies’ public finances are suffering because policymakers have failed to implement sufficient supply-side structural reforms to control public-pension growth, reform growth-inhibiting taxes, and liberalize labor markets.
By reinforcing already-strict labor-market regulation, pursuing a misguided energy policy, and reversing pension reform, Germany is undermining its current economic position and will move in the direction of problem countries.
Russia’s withdrawal from the Treaty of Conventional Forces, its deliberate efforts to block the election monitoring of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the Kremlin’s refusal to ratify the reform of the European Court on Human Rights (Protocol No 14 to the European Convention on Human Rights), all marked its passing.
China’s Illusory Global LeadershipATLANTA – Even as China’s economy slows and its government backslides on reform, President Xi Jinping is trying hard to portray his country as a global power ready to assume a broader international role.
Of course, European leaders strongly oppose any such reform: they fear losing not only important opportunities to have their photographs taken, but real power as well.
It is thus not surprising that some Europeans - particularly the French - are so reluctant to reform the international organizations, even in terms of cutting waste and inefficiency at the UN.
After all, might not someone then suggest that the first step in such a reform is to reduce Europe to a single seat on the Security Council?
For a while in postcommunist Russia, the answers were blindingly clear: parties were divided between those nostalgic for Soviet times and those who wanted reform.
Putin has also not turned the clock back on economic reform.
Far from opposing absolutist power as an impediment to religious democracy, they tried to persuade the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of the value of reform.
But Khamenei had no interest in reform, as he made plain in dismantling the reform movement.
The first is comprehensive tax reform aimed at aligning tax policy with desirable economic incentives.
This year’s health-care reform legislation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is a starting point.
In the Czech Republic, a reformist government was elected in 2006, and in Hungary, political divisions rather than reform fatigue dominates electoral campaigns.
Fortunately, the ground is being prepared for reform by the Convention on the future of the Union being chaired by former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, which should make its institutional proposals next spring.
And, though the Fed was partly responsible for the regulatory failures that led to the global economy’s near-meltdown in 2008-2009, post-crisis reform has left it with even greater authority and more responsibility for overseeing the financial system.
Yet, in a recent speech that reviewed the landscape of financial reform, Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer skipped over the requirement almost completely.
The garment industry does need to reform; but, for the time being, if women and girls are not to suffer needlessly again, promising to eradicate child labor may not be the right answer.
In Algeria, security-sector reform – particularly greater transparency – is long overdue.
In other words, China’s future – and that of the global economy – depends on how committed its leaders are to overcoming vested interests and pursuing comprehensive structural and policy reform.
But the third and most important arrow – structural reform – has so far had little impact.
Merkel’s preference for muddling through has been apparent in her approach to eurozone reform.
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