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Even when investors accept the intellectual case for much higher bond yields, regulatory impositions on banks and pension funds, together with quantitative easing in Japan and Europe and other forms of financial repression, will ensure continuing demand for government bonds at prices far above any reasonable estimate of fundamental values.
They now argue that Putin personally chose
repression
in responding to the protest movement that filled the streets of Moscow and other major cities in late 2011 and early 2012.
In addition to poverty, backwardness, repression, rapid population growth, religious and ethnic hatred, and stateless peoples (such as the Kurds and the Palestinians), the region has unstable borders.
Because these ideologies’ claim to be in possession of the ultimate truth is bound to be false, they can be imposed on society only through
repression
and compulsion.
Prevention is better than
repression.
As debt mounts and the recession lingers, we are surely going to see a number of governments trying to lighten their load through financial repression, higher inflation, partial default, or a combinations of all three.
Corruption thrives wherever power, secrecy, and
repression
combine.
One suggestion is that Putin is seeking to divert attention from his support for Syria’s government and from increased
repression
of his domestic opponents (as the leading economist Sergei Guriev’s recent flight from Russia, following police harassment, demonstrated anew).
Despite his intellectual status and prestige, Qutb had failed to persuade the majority of like-minded inmates under conditions of
repression.
Overall, Kuwait has always had a lively political life, with freedom of expression and less political
repression
than is common in neighboring countries.
Syrians suffered from extreme repression, with people denied the right to assemble or even to discuss issues publicly, and the country was reduced to a political desert.
Those who make such claims are bound to be wrong at times, and so can enforce their claims only by coercion and
repression.
Given this backdrop of
repression
and punctuated democracy, the failure of Islamists in Egypt and Turkey tells us less about Islam’s compatibility with democracy than we might think.
Indeed, Shafiq has been linked to multiple cases of corruption and repression, including the “battle of the camels” on February 2, 2011, when Mubarak’s henchmen attacked Tahrir Square, killing and wounding protesters.
The Regional Repercussions of Honduras’s Botched ElectionMEXICO CITY – In Honduras, stolen elections, followed by accusations of fraud, street demonstrations, and military repression, are business as usual.
In other words, financial deepening in China is not simply a matter of addressing financial
repression.
But stability built on
repression
is like a house built on a live volcano.
Unfortunately, however, Ben Ali succumbed to the temptations of corruption and repression, described in great detail by the former United States ambassador to Tunisia, Robert F. Godec, in cables released last month by WikiLeaks.
The underlying political drivers of social frustration and conflict – disenfranchisement, repression, pervasive official corruption, unaccountable rulers, and predatory state institutions and policies – remain unchanged.
The inability to achieve a consensus on acute issues, such as Syria’s internal repression, or on chronic problems, like climate change, highlights the (increasing) complexity of global governance and responsibility.
After ten years of a large-scale repression, the fire, far from going out, is spreading, crossing borders, setting Northern Caucasus ablaze and making combatants even more fierce.
Even repression, the mainstay of the regime’s survival, was fine-tuned.
That leaves only
repression
and nationalism in the CCP’s post-Tiananmen toolkit.
For a regime whose credibility is gone, the costs of maintaining power are exorbitant – and eventually unbearable – because it must resort to
repression
more frequently and heavily.
But
repression
is yielding diminishing returns for the Party, owing to a third revolutionary development: the dramatic decline in the cost of collective action.
We have witnessed brutal
repression
of protests in Syria and Yemen, Saudi troops crossing into Bahrain, and an ongoing battle for Libya.
Hong Kong’s Handover HangoverBANGKOK – Earlier this month, an estimated 100,000 Hong Kong residents gathered in Victoria Park, to mark the 28th anniversary of China violent
repression
of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
The biggest risk stemming from the Dalai Lama’s passing is violent resistance to Chinese
repression
in Tibet.
Even as China’s
repression
of Tibet’s religious, cultural, and linguistic heritage becomes increasingly severe, Tibetans have not taken up arms.
In the case of Kosovo, after the Milosevic regime’s brutal behavior in the 1990’s – including repression, massive human rights violations, and large-scale expulsions of Kosovo Albanians – prompted NATO to intervene and the UN to take over the country’s administration, return to Serbian rule became unthinkable.
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