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And yet the world has failed thus far to devise an adequate response to the problem.
Certainly in defense and foreign policy, a cool and measured response to the extreme provocations that often come with that territory is what the world wants, and needs, from the leader of its reigning superpower.
The tone of the American response has been firm, giving appropriate reassurance to its allies and making clear that gamesmanship will not be tolerated, but not raising the temperature further.
But Obama’s response so far has been, again, exactly right – cool and measured; avoiding any military adventurism of his own and discouraging Israel from it; and applying the same three-pronged strategy of containment, deterrence, and openness to negotiations.
The first step at Bali was to break the deadlock that has crippled the global response to climate change since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol a decade ago.
An American war against Iran is plausible only as a response to a blatant and immediate Iranian challenge to vital US interests, such as a major terrorist attack, an invasion of an ally in the Gulf, or disruption of the free flow of Middle East oil to the West.
Benito Mussolini’s Italian fascism – a response to Lenin’s movement – also adopted an internationalist stance: colored-shirt movements, imitating Mussolini’s Black Shirts, emerged in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, to elevate authoritarianism as an alternative model to liberalism.
Against this backdrop, US Secretary of State John Kerry is right to make clear that NATO is not contemplating a military response of any kind.
This has not only facilitated trade and transport, but also translates into faster response times for emergency services, saving thousands of lives each year.
But in its rush to make money, the company seems to have been greedy – and pretty tone-deaf – in its response to critics.
The critics may not represent the majority of users, but they deserve a polite and considered response.
And calibrating a response was not easy.
And in 2016, Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) government faced mass demonstrations in response to many of its policies, including measures aimed at banning abortion and limiting the independence of the Constitutional Court.
Some actions are appropriately initiated by governments “from above,” in response to pleas by political movements and civil-society groups.
This serves to keep provocateurs at bay, while highlighting the unjust militarization of the police response.
The second response to climate change, called “adaptation,” requires that we ready ourselves for the climate change now underway and the increased climate change to come in future years.
Abe’s agenda includes reform of social security in response to demographic trends, as well as gaining the agriculture sector’s acceptance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the bold regional trade agreement that will unite the United States, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and much of the rest of Asia, with the exception of China.
Skeptics doubt the credibility of this policy, which in principle obliges the US to sacrifice New York in response to an attack on Warsaw, or endanger Los Angeles to defend Taipei.
Thus far, Europe’s response to the debt crisis has been impeded by a false juxtaposition of austerity and stimulus.
European government counterparts failed to converge on a common assessment of the country’s problems, let alone cooperate on a proper response.
We have reason to fear that miscalculations will lead to tragedies, just as Bush fumbled the response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, failed to capture Osama bin Laden, and invaded Iraq.
In response to social-housing shortages – and rising tensions over increasingly conspicuous social inequality – Oman’s leaders pledged to build 2,500 housing units for low-income families, and to support technical training tailored to job creation.
But that risks an aggressive response from a protectionist Trump administration, and could produce self-reinforcing inflation as savers seek to spend their money before it loses value.
This phrase – “No to everything” – is how Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank president, recently described the standard German response to all economic initiatives aimed at strengthening Europe.
In response to the recurrence of well-publicized and highly damaging scandals in recent years, many universities and some entire national research funding agencies now convene “institutional review boards” to deal with breaches of what has come to be known as “research ethics.”
But the EU’s response to mass migration makes it less likely that the refugee crisis will be resolved in a sustainable way.
The EU’s current myopic, reactive response to mass migration is driven by a zero-sum view of the economy that ignores the far-reaching effects of domestic policy.
The failure to take a long-term view not only undermines the effectiveness of the EU’s response; it is actively counterproductive.
Consider Trump’s decision in April to launch cruise missiles at the Shayrat Airbase in Syria, in response to the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
If European leaders tried the same approach with Britain, they might be surprised by the favorable response.
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