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The West’s response has been far more supportive of Arabs’ aspirations, but it has also been contradictory and erratic.
Each case has elicited a different response, owing either to the constraints of international power politics, as is now the case with respect to Syria, or to economic and strategic considerations, as in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
And yet Europe has proven utterly incapable of developing an appropriate response to conditions in which Islamist regimes are independently shaping their priorities and external actors – Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Russia, China, and perhaps even Iran – are vying for influence with an extraordinary combination of financial firepower and political muscle.
The spat between Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic over the opening of a Soviet-designed nuclear plant near the Austrian border complicates Germany’s response even more.
To be sure, the fiscal stance improved in many Latin American economies in the years leading up to 2007, so countries like Chile were able to mount a strong anti-crisis fiscal response.
He would have done better to frame the response as a reply to Al Qaeda, which had declared war on the US.
Under such circumstances, the lack of response at the zero bound of policy interest rates is hardly surprising.
As I argued in my 2007 book Cool It, the most rational response to global warming is to make alternative energy technologies so cheap that the whole world can afford them.
Green, a long-time proponent of a technology-led response to global warming, demonstrated the effectiveness of a policy of government investment in R&D aimed at developing new low-carbon technologies, making current technologies cheaper and more effective, and expanding energy-related infrastructure such as smart grids.
Another academic who has advocated a smarter response to global warming is Roger Pielke, Jr. of the University of Colorado, the author of this year’s must-read global-warming book The Climate Fix.
The costs of such a package can be separated into two components: the response to “structural,” or endemic, poverty, and protection against unexpected shocks.
The response to the recent tsunami disaster in Asia is a case in point.
The British newspaper The Observer published, in response, a striking cartoon showing Putin sitting on a throne of outward-pointing daggers, turning off the Ukraine gas tap while saying, “Winter is coming.”
The correct response, said Kennan, should be “containment” of Soviet aggression through the “adroit and vigilant application of counterforce.”
I have believed for some months that the Fed should start tightening monetary policy to reduce the risks of financial instability caused by the behavior of investors and lenders in response to the prolonged period of exceptionally low interest rates since the 2008 financial crisis.
“Asia should lose no time in firmly establishing democracy and strengthening human rights,” he wrote in response to Lee.“The biggest obstacle is not its cultural heritage, but the resistance of authoritarian rulers and their apologists.”
But those who wait until the disruptions are unavoidable – easy to do when governments do not mount a timely response – will miss out on the huge advantages that technology offers.
With technology enabling unprecedented mobility and connectivity, the jurisdictional power of nation-states is being eroded, meaning that a truly effective response – one that unleashes the full benefits of disruptive technologies – is impossible without multilateral cooperation and coordination.
Second, and in response to the first change, a wide range of sectors that interact with the public sector will undergo significant restructuring.
This has left the Conservative opposition without an effective response.
Anticipating a problem is always more effective in terms of time and cost than responding to a crisis, no matter how viable the response.
If EID’s were rare, management through crisis response might be cost-effective.
On one level, social democrats’ immigration shift is a necessary response to voter demand.
All of this takes time, but, as it occurs, it mitigates the negative impact: the demand and supply curves shift in response to higher prices (or to anticipation of higher prices).
The expectation that Trump will have better luck on this front has produced a textbook asset-price response.
Augmenting the risk is the prospect that such a development could spur the Trump administration to follow through on protectionist rhetoric, potentially undermining market and business confidence and, if things went far enough, even triggering a response from major trade partners.
The fact is that in designing elaborate new institutions in response to the events of the last five years, there is a risk of fighting a rearguard action, rather than looking ahead to meet new challenges.
In Pakistan, which has long worked with China to contain India and is the largest recipient of BRI financing, the new military-backed government has sought to review or renegotiate projects in response to a worsening debt crisis.
We can only hope that they are allowed to express their preferences in an environment free of fraud, violence, and intimidation – all the more so because the conduct of the DRC election (and the world’s response to it) will have a profound influence elsewhere in Africa.
My purpose was not to recommend specific policy actions in particular countries, but to widen the scope of debate about our policy response to the still profound challenges facing the advanced economies.
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