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Their intervention in recent weeks shows a reluctance to let this happen.
Indeed, at a time when restricting access to short-term international funds has acquired intellectual respectability, the government’s reluctance to enforce curbs has been puzzling.
Lack of trust in elites is probably healthy at some level, but numerous polls indicate that it is in rapid decline, which surely increases citizens’ reluctance to delegate authority to navigate an uncertain global economic environment.
Such a conjuncture set the stage for a new wave of imperialism (though the reluctance to use the word remained).
The reluctance of Northern European savers to invest in the euro periphery is the root of the problem.
French diplomats have of course informed China about the reluctance of other European countries about lifting the arms embargo, which was imposed after the massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Why the reluctance to share the cost of humanitarian rescue operations?
Last year, Bush showed little reluctance in imposing steel tariffs--in clear violation of WTO rules.
Others blame developing countries – particularly Brazil, China and India – for a reluctance to sign up to binding carbon cuts.
Markets noticed that the euro seemed caught between a rock (the EFSF’s limited borrowing capacity) and a hard place (the European Central Bank’s great reluctance to engage in large-scale purchases of financially troubled governments’ bonds).
The more important obstacle is Germany’s reluctance to admit publicly that ECB liquidity support for government debt markets can be crucial in maintaining financial stability.
Nor is Netanyahu especially happy with Obama’s reluctance to set a firm deadline for talks with Iran.
Another reason why we do not give to prevent disasters should be familiar to anyone who has ever delayed going to the dentist because the prospect of serious pain in the coming weeks or months just wasn’t as motivating as the reluctance to face some more immediate slight discomfort.
Harnessing Disruption for SustainabilityGENEVA – After decades of reluctance on the part of world leaders, a rapid, smooth, and purposeful transition toward sustainable development seems unlikely.
Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright famously chided Colin Powell for his reluctance to involve the US military in the Balkans in the 1990s, in part because of her own family’s experience as Czech refugees from Communism.
But the new leadership’s reluctance to intervene in order to spur growth is just part of the story of China’s current slowdown.
That reluctance to speak openly about how to restructure corporate governance in a way that improves stewardship places all of us at risk.
Readers will be disappointed if they want to learn more about Japan’s entry into the Pacific War, its defeat, the Allied occupation (especially Hirohito’s relationship with General Douglas MacArthur), or Hirohito’s later reluctance to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, where Imperial Japan’s war dead, including Class-A war criminals, are honored.
Why is a group of countries whose share in worldwide CO2 emissions is only 12% – and set to decline fast – aspiring to global leadership on the issue, despite US inaction and emerging-market countries’ reluctance to commit to binding emission-reduction targets?
But maintaining this economic revival will require greater reluctance to intervene in foreign conflicts or engage in new wars.
The Davis case further complicated Pakistan’s relations with the United States, which were already strained because of the military’s reluctance to move into North Waziristan – a mini-state within Pakistan from which the Taliban have launched operations in Afghanistan against US forces.
Broad-based reluctance to carry out the reforms needed for a post-oil world could lead to similar malaise in the years to come.
No breakthrough should be expected to alter this dynamic, given political resistance in many countries to increasing the legal retirement age, as well as many firms’ reluctance to hire aged workers.
But such a move would require a political will inconceivable today given America’s reluctance to relinquish any sovereign power to supra-national organizations.
The Americans (after initial reluctance) had to do the dirty work.
The West’s reluctance to intensify sanctions stems largely from European countries that retain strong economic ties with Russia.
Northern Europeans’ reluctance to invest in their southern neighbors is the problem behind the problem.
It either owned or dominated many other nations, and now it is only with grudging reluctance dealing with the loss of them all.
A slew of other factors – including America’s foreign-policy preoccupation with the Muslim world, Obama’s reluctance to challenge an increasingly assertive China, declining US defense outlays, and diminished US leadership on the world stage – were already working against it.
In Beijing last year, I was told by a Chinese foreign-policy expert that the country’s reluctance to interfere in other countries’ internal affairs partly reflects the legacy of the one-child policy that was enforced for more than three decades.
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