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With its calibrated and targeted strikes, India has made clear that inaction is not the only possible response to terrorist provocations.
The conscious expression of this dream is an obsessive response to the certainty of biological death: the belief that a big enough win in the game of science will beat death itself by conferring a form of immortality on the winner.
Such a response would immediately cause oil prices to spike – possibly to $200 per barrel in the short run.
A larger state can inevitably do more to control the economy, and hence is exposed to the costly temptation to intervene in response to political pressure from vested interests.
But this can happen only if Europe devises a collective response that is capable of dealing with global migratory pressures.
The panicky public response that permitted the establishment of GITMO is no more.
Fortunately, most Americans have learned from the past, and this was reflected in the public response this time around – sadness, yes, but also some wisdom.
Now, in response to suggestions by Bush and other G8 leaders that the larger developing nations must be part of the solution to climate change, Ma Kai, the head of China’s National Development and Reform Commission, has said that China will not commit to any quantified emissions reduction targets.
Education must be an integral part of any emergency response, and all peace-building efforts.
But the response of some center-right parties in Europe has been to move further right, specifically in an anti-Europe or nationalistic direction.
Ideally, the response would be coordinated with China’s international partners in the G-20.
In settings that are continually changing, in response to the needs and capabilities of a range of actors, an iterative approach with qualitative elements is imperative.
The right response to past injustices is to recover sovereignty in a Europe where the powerful – whether German bankers or American smartphone makers – are prevented from preying on the weak.
Following Kim’s response, sanctions should be tightened even further, to stop all trade with North Korea, including halting all fuel imports.
The nuclear threat posed by North Korea is serious, immediate, and requires a bold response.
There is also the troubling prospect that such a showy initiative would, by creating the impression that the EU is taking action, enable the EU and its members to avoid the long-term commitment and politically unpopular measures that an effective crisis response would demand.
Worse, the response to the plan – with some member states opting out of the program; others objecting to how the quotas are to be measured; and still others bristling at the idea that the EU should propose a quota at all – seems to suggest that it is every country for itself.
In fact, Europe’s interest in mounting an effective response to the crisis extends beyond values.
No response, it must be stressed, would be complete without a sustained commitment to addressing the drivers of mass immigration – and that means a complete overhaul of the EU’s Neighborhood Policy.
In the case of the incest taboo, our response has an obvious evolutionary explanation.
The political response to deflation is to call for a stronger state.
The Great Depression produced more alarming outcomes, as the political response to deflation throughout Central Europe and Latin America destroyed the prevailing order, including several democracies.
Statism has been a characteristically twentieth-century response to new uncertainty.
The World Trade Organization recently reported that in response to US tariffs, G20 countries have imposed around 40 new import restrictions, affecting $481 billion in global trade – a sixfold increase from the year before.
The response has been very positive: for example, I made two calls myself in recent weeks, but my network has made more than 160 calls.
There was certainly a great deal of this type of sentiment in the 1930’s, when the populist response to the Great Depression attributed it to the sinister forces of “international capital.”
Unfortunately, the global response to this challenge has not been overwhelming.
In response, the ECB did precisely what any central bank would have done: we acted to restore the relationship between our monetary policy and the cost of borrowing, aiming to bring down the average rate that households and firms have to pay.
Together, these measures offer a powerful response that addresses the root causes of impaired bank lending, thereby facilitating new credit flows to the real economy.
Major emerging democracies like Brazil, India, and South Africa have been especially disappointing in their response to the Arab Spring.
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