Retreat
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The third, comprising perhaps the largest camp, is to
retreat
below deck and wring one’s hands, bemoaning the expulsion from paradise and fearful of a looming apocalypse.
None of this is to say that globalization is in
retreat.
Democracy is not in
retreat.
The demarcation of the India-Pakistan border by the British was a slapdash affair, concocted by a collapsing empire in headlong
retreat
from its responsibilities.
To be sure, this finding is at odds with all of the eulogies for globalization that one hears these days, and Donald Trump’s decidedly protectionist administration in the US could now send global trade into a long
retreat.
Regardless of whether Trump’s plan was actually to start with a demand for full denuclearization and then
retreat
to something more credible, the question now is what the administration might do to achieve denuclearization – or even regime change – in the absence of a summit.
Neo-colonialism is returning to Africa, the global project of human rights is in retreat, and the world trade system is becoming far less open.
A large
retreat
to inter-governmentalism.
Just as surely, any sign of a
retreat
from democracy in Georgia and other post-Soviet states will merely fuel Russia’s neo-imperial ambitions.
While Lebanon and Somalia remain damaged and failed states, respectively, regional and domestic factors have cauterized the consequences of America’s
retreat
from Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
Rather than the dominos falling following America’s
retreat
from Saigon in 1975, a Vietnam-Cambodian War ensued.
The conventional wisdom is that the result of such renegotiations would involve a
retreat
from the achievements of the 1990’s.
Should the US continue to act with its traditional sense of embodying an exceptional destiny in and for the world, or should it
retreat
into isolationism?
On the contrary, during the campaign, he heaped criticism on America’s senseless wars in the Middle East; and his supporters want nothing more than for the US to abandon its global leadership role and
retreat
from the world.
In 2007, during his first presidential campaign, he wrote that America “can neither
retreat
from the world nor try to bully it into submission.
For every expansionist Czar, or commissar, from Catherine II to Putin, there have been leaders prepared to
retreat.
Who can doubt that US President Donald Trump will make a Twitter punching bag out of any of them who dares criticize his administration’s planned
retreat
from open trade and leadership in multilateral financial institutions?
But if his plan is for the US to
retreat
unilaterally from global trade, the outcome is likely to hurt many US workers for the benefit of a few.
But not all of the current
retreat
is healthy.
A mixed civilian-military team investigating reports of Chinese incursions were, on May 16, threatened and forced to
retreat
by a PLA formation in three armored vehicles.
Or will it opt for a defensive, backward-looking, insular
retreat?
This will require having the courage to face down those who would
retreat
behind national borders and protect existing business models.
To recover the confidence of the international business community and the world’s mining giants, who were enraged in recent years by forced renegotiations of existing deals by governments in Congo, Mongolia and Guinea, Camara was also wise to
retreat
from his threat to renegotiate existing mining concessions.
This is a
retreat
from the usual fixations of the earlier sustainable development pressure groups, such the supposed exhaustion of raw materials for growth, or the sheer technical inability of the world to feed its expanding population, or biodiversity.
So I
retreat
to the simplistic rock star/United Nations view of how great it would be if we could give more money.
Obama’s regrettable
retreat
from support for the Doha Round is the result of many factors and fallacies.
For now, however, the high unemployment of the past several years should be mainly attributed to the financial crisis, and should ultimately
retreat
toward historical benchmark levels.
During the second half of 2008, however, a clear
retreat
of SWFs towards domestic markets became visible.
It may seem plausible that a “domestic retreat” could be justified by a contracting range of opportunities in foreign markets, rather than by a desire to stabilize domestic economies.
Overall, what has happened over the past two years was a temporary
retreat
by SWFs from foreign, mostly developed-country, markets.
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