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But NATO is also acting because some European countries want to show Washington that they can pull their security weight even though they refuse to go near the war in Iraq.
To refuse to deal with a painful past is to risk reproducing it.
But in what is perhaps the most damning failure of democracy in Russia, the young are politically apathetic and refuse to vote or actively participate in politics.
And, in any coming showdown, we must hope that all leaders will refuse to use innocent people’s lives as bargaining chips.
In balancing whether to use multilateral or unilateral tactics, or to adhere or refuse to go along with particular multilateral initiatives, any country must consider how to explain its actions to others and what the effects will be on its soft power.
If they refuse to express support for the US, on whom they rely for their security, the Americans will regard them as disloyal.
Other countries would refuse – and they would be right.
That agenda is “Islam,” which many imagine to include all the terrible things that we can read about in the press every day: the stoning of adulterous women under Sharia law in northern Nigeria, the amputation of thieves’ hands in Saudi Arabia, honor killings of women who refuse arranged marriages in Pakistan (or even northern English cities like Bradford and Manchester), the willingness to justify suicide bombings.
Just as he texted me that he did not want his generation to be responsible for strangling Greece, I, too, refuse to be part of a generation of leftists responsible for allowing a fascist and racist to win the French presidency.
But many European countries still refuse to accept that some of their high-tech firms might not make it: better, they think, to keep them alive with generous subsidies, and in the meantime avoid the consolidation of EU defense budgets.
If, for example, one region or country in a future European currency area is badly affected by, say, a relative fall in the prices of their exports, and workers refuse to either move to where there are jobs, or adjust their salaries (downward) to the new situation, a rise in unemployment is unavoidable.
But if US President Donald Trump tries to make South Korea pay for America’s recently deployed Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system, Moon will have to refuse.
In fact, what is most damaging to the country’s reputation are politicians who continue to refuse dialogue.
As long as Sunnis and Shia refuse to think about their past together, it is difficult to foresee a tranquil future together.
But Japan and South Korea refuse to let go of history.
Its policymakers deny the eurozone’s crisis-ridden countries a more active fiscal policy; refuse to support a European investment agenda to generate demand and growth; have declared a fiscal surplus, rather than faster potential growth, as their primary domestic goal; and have begun turning against the European Central Bank (ECB) in the struggle against deflation and a credit crunch.
So why do German officials refuse to get on board?
They may refuse to lend to some firms.
Were Iran to refuse the offer or fail to honor its obligations, it would totally isolate itself internationally and provide emphatic legitimization to further measures.
They could start by closing down the dirtiest form of energy production, coal-fired power stations, and refuse licenses to develop new coal mines.
Why do Greece’s creditors refuse to move on debt restructuring before any new loans are negotiated?
As long as member states remain fully sovereign, investors cannot be assured that if the eurozone breaks up, some states will not simply refuse to pay – or will not refuse to pay for the others.
The troika could then have pressed the flesh with China’s leaders and made an offer that they would have found difficult to refuse – including, for example, sustainable mining technologies to address the environmental costs of extraction, or the development of a certification scheme to help prevent the illegal smuggling of rare earths.
They would refuse to work with Korolev.
But the deal could be a script for a situation comedy: Japan and South Korea refuse to provide intelligence data to each other, leaving the US to play the middleman.
Local courts, whose judges are appointed and paid by the local government, often simply refuse to file cases that challenge official decisions.
Unfortunately, the political environment in Central and Eastern Europe is ideal for populists who refuse to participate constructively in the European project.
They refuse to come to the aid of the destitute, and defend tax cuts at every opportunity.
Acting at the behest of the member states, the ECB has sufficient powers of persuasion: it could close its discount window to the banks, and the governments could seize institutions that refuse to cooperate.
G20 leaders can – and should – refuse to smile for the cameras and sweep everything under the rug.
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