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In some European countries, where income inequality has remained in check, this has been a component of a deliberate strategy to maintain employment growth and competitiveness in the tradable part of the economy, with wage restraint partly shared across the income distribution.
In the West, the concept of sovereignty and the limited use of power is likely to make a comeback, while national leaders who have traditionally called for restraint will become increasingly bold in unleashing their troops.
The point of the veto restraint is, at minimum, to raise the political cost for those who would block action designed to ensure that there are no more Cambodias, Rwandas, Srebrenicas, or Syrias.
With Chinese provocations on the rise, US President Barack Obama, Abe’s host, appealed for calm and restraint on both sides.
Behind its exalted name lay an innovation of great diplomatic significance: the introduction of an element of calculated moral restraint into international relations.
Here is where the Holy Alliance concept of moral restraint comes in.
Abdullah, perhaps earlier than most others, understood that some code of restraint was needed if the entire region was not to descend into a war of all against all.
Platitudes and placebos – vapid calls for more job creation, fiscal restraint, reining in entitlement programs, and so forth – will characterize America’s election year.
This calls for more modesty and restraint in determining the highest salaries, not for moral reasons but for the sustainability of the system.
China's reforms are marked by partial liberalization, two-track pricing, limited deregulation, financial restraint, an unorthodox legal regime, and the absence of clear private property rights.
It has now taken the first step toward returning its benchmark policy interest rate – the federal funds rate – to a level that imparts neither stimulus nor restraint to the US economy.
In some countries, broadly shared restraint on income and wage growth seems to have been important to restoring competitiveness and boosting potential output.
And if overconfidence is so dangerous, can restraint and modesty be taught to those who do not have it?
In short, both self-interest and principle counsel restraint and no (immediate) retaliation.
In his inaugural address in 2009, President Barack Obama stated that “our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.”
Moreover, while the Kim regime’s nuclear restraint could hardly be taken for granted, China would be a less likely target than the US for North Korean missiles.
To this end, the US has addressed its calls for restraint not only to China, but also to its own allies.
But America’s own restraint – whether in response to Russia’s forcible absorption of Crimea or to China’s creeping, covert warfare – has brought no benefits to its allies.
Worse still, America’s public opinion, media, and election results have left the world’s most powerful military without practical restraint.
The tendency is either excessive restraint (Europe) or a diffusion of the effort (the United States).
In short, striking a balance between the impulse toward rivalry and incentives encouraging restraint is the most important dynamic in contemporary international affairs.
And, for now, the global balance is tipping toward restraint.
The protesters’ trademark so far has been moderation and restraint; nothing would be more dangerous than violent repression.
In a climate of budgetary restraint, it is unsurprising that the European Council agreed earlier this year to reduce the EU budget by 3.4% relative to the 2007-2013 MFF.
Parliaments provide no guarantees of restraint, but one-man rule in foreign policy, as in the US and Saudi Arabia, almost guarantees massive bloodletting.
Otherwise, it will appear that no amount of negotiation can help set the Caucasus straight – powerfully undermining a key restraint preventing the two sides from trying again to achieve a military solution.
Only by demonstrating strategic restraint and political will to resolve issues and get things done can they face their common challenges together and successfully.
Too much short-term debt makes banks more prone to failure, while too much equity places little restraint on bankers’ capacity to destroy value.
But India’s resilience in the face of adversity, and its mature restraint in the face of violent provocation, encouraged investors to return.
So is restraint and mutual cooperation – as is true for China as well.
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