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Restoring optimism, in both the Middle East and the West, will depend on whether intellectuals, unions, progressive parties, and civil-society groups can build a common political base and offer a shared vision for the future.
Just as in Soviet times, we will have to take incremental steps, restoring elements of normality and rebuilding confidence.
And if these countries had recycled a smaller stock of foreign reserves into US Treasuries, agency bonds, and subprime securities, US interest rates would likely have remained higher, emerging-market current-account surpluses would have declined earlier, and advanced-economy deficits would have contracted, thereby restoring some semblance of equilibrium.
Of course, Clinton’s efforts to revitalize America’s alliances made restoring confidence in US leadership an overriding priority, which she achieved without seeking to militarize every international problem.
However, whichever administration governs Iraq in the future must be prepared to face up to an environmental debt--the cost of restoring what can be restored--that will be a substantial liability for years to come.
Backed by a reasonable Arab peace plan, they will insist that there is already a worldwide consensus on restoring the 1967 borders (with mutual adjustments of equal size and quality), the need for a fair agreement on dealing with refugees, and a formula to share Jerusalem.
Absent external assistance and a credible plan for restoring fiscal order, Greek sovereign debt could not be rolled over, forcing a default, probably in the form of a restructuring of Greek debt.
Even with external assistance, many view default as a near certainty, because the arithmetic of restoring fiscal balance is so daunting.
And government-financed education and training, in particular, will be critical in restoring competitiveness in Europe and the US.
Restoring the past is not an option.
As before the advent of Gorbachev – indeed, restoring a centuries-old tendency – Russians yet again believe that the people should be willing to forfeit their freedoms for the sake of the greatness of the state, which wins wars and launches Sputniks.
The certain outcome of this would be immediate devaluation, much beyond what restoring competitiveness requires.
To Putin, restoring Russia’s dignity is the same as resurrecting its “great-power status” following the collapse of the Soviet Union and its humiliating “defeat” by the West in the Cold War.
Looking forward, one can foresee a gradual process of restoring balance sheets and balanced growth patterns in a wide range of economies.
In some countries, broadly shared restraint on income and wage growth seems to have been important to restoring competitiveness and boosting potential output.
The most effective approach to restoring European competitiveness would be to combine EU member countries’ individual strengths, thereby forming increasingly productive European supply chains – or capturing the top positions in global supply chains.
But, while the EFSF is a necessary step towards restoring confidence, the Greek crisis has revealed structural weaknesses of the European Monetary Union’s fiscal-policy framework that cannot, and should not, be fixed by routinely throwing other countries’ money at the problem.
Restoring Britain’s reputation in the region will take years of hard work.
But there is another issue: serving better school lunches often requires restoring the food-preparation facilities that existed before.
Such an approach requires, first, modest private initiatives to assist in restoring rural Russia through investment in small-scale farming.
Arriving from different staring points, both the United States and China now find themselves confronting a similar challenge: restoring global trust and respect.
More positively, restoring truth would counter the traditional Chinese instinct to blame all disasters on external forces, and might lead to a spiritual epiphany for a people struggling to find value in the emerging new China.
Restoring funding for basic biomedical research appears to have lost favor with policymakers, because it does not offer immediate self-sustaining economic returns.
Many congressmen and senior military officials are now calling for a tougher response, which could include restoring the Kim regime to a list of state sponsors of terrorism, and using US Special Forces to launch surgical strikes.
Thus, restoring competitiveness, not just fiscal adjustment, is necessary to revive sustained growth.
Deep down, our leaders and policymakers have convinced themselves that for all its flaws, the old system was better than anything we are going to think of, and that simply restoring confidence will fix everything, at least for as long as they remain in office.
Restoring confidence has been helpful and important.
So, while Hezbollah has not decisively won its current war with Israel, by maintaining its ability to fight in the face of the might of the Israeli army, it has captured the imagination of Arabs, restoring lost pride in the same way as the Egyptian Army’s crossing of the Suez Canal in the war of 1973 did.
The authorities were willing to enter into yet another set of commitments knowing that they had consistently over-promised and under-delivered, and that the country had failed to make any progress on restoring growth, halting its competitiveness decline, and containing the rise in debt.
Anwar's arrest and trial stunned the country, but Mahathir surprised few Malays--either allies or opponents--by restoring his authority so thoroughly following the crisis that he was able to handpick Abdullah Badawi as his successor.
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