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With the United States retreating from its global role, someone needs to step up.
Yet the option of retreating from the project is no longer open to them.
Academics and policymakers may be tempted to respond by dismissing what looks like a celebration of ignorance and retreating into ivory towers.
Heat waves, droughts, floods, forest fires, retreating glaciers, polluted rivers, and extreme storms buffet the planet at a dramatically rising rate, owing to human activities.
Many economists have responded to the failure of their discipline’s core premises by retreating into empirical investigation.
Indeed, international measures of graft show that the authorities may be reaching a stalemate or even retreating in the fight.
By retreating from liberal norms, the May government has become, like the Trump administration, an enabler of authoritarian behaviors around the world.The collapse of British foreign policy has come at a time of deepening uncertainty.
By retreating from liberal norms, the May government has become, like the Trump administration, an enabler of authoritarian behaviors around the world.
And some of the very pressures that helped to contain inflation for the past two decades have been retreating.
China is now the world’s second-largest national economy and the leading supplier of credit to emerging markets globally, having filled the gap left by retreating Western creditors.
But, rather than retreating to technocracy, we should tackle the specific structural problems that have aided the triumph of populist politicians.
At worst, the US might have become a more closed, suspicious country, retreating from the openness that has been its hallmark.
For this, his critics have accused him of failing to promote American values and retreating into isolationism.
And it is advancing to the center of the geopolitical stage just as – if not because – American and European leadership seems to be retreating into the wings.
Retreating into unilateralism, ultra-nationalism, or the politics of identity will produce nothing but a bitter, fragmented, parochial, and dangerous world.
Foreign investment in sub-Saharan Africa, which reached record levels in recent years, is retreating, which is evidence of investor caution, not any underlying lack of optimism about the region.
For Syria, the choice now is between seizing this opportunity to open its economy, or retreating back into its Baathist shell.
The United States, long the torchbearer of foreign aid, is retreating; so is Europe (albeit to a lesser extent).
But why did the Polish underground (Armia Krajowa, or Home Army), controlled by the Polish government-in-exile in London, strike at this moment, when the Germans were already retreating, eastern Poland was already liberated, and the Red Army was about to liberate Warsaw itself?
Now comes the supposed news that the Himalayan glaciers are not, in fact, retreating, and will therefore not disappear by 2035.
What could have caused the glacier snouts to have stopped retreating?
By retreating from free trade and casting doubt on US security guarantees for its allies, he could prompt Japan, South Korea, and others to race to acquire nuclear weapons to protect themselves against a rising China.
Some counsel retreating to the original six countries as an inner core that creates a federation within the larger union.
As a result, Europe is retreating into a narrow regional outlook – and assuming that America will carry the burden of major global issues.
The PDP has re-introduced all of these practices since taking power, with the backing of the retreating generals, in 1999.
But, far from engaging in an open and positive self-examination, they are too often retreating into a strident nationalism that is all the more defensive to the extent that it reflects a growing lack of self-confidence.
Moreover, Western firms, an important component of China’s private sector, are retreating from the country.
Some observers say central banks can best guard against political interference by retreating to the narrow price-stability mandate that served them so well prior to the crisis.
While the Saudis prefer an end to the STC’s control over the south, there are signs that they are retreating, following a broken ceasefire and the crumbling of the Riyadh Agreement, a peace deal brokered in November 2019.
Putin’s regime has followed a similar trajectory, retreating to the nineteenth century, allying with the Orthodox Church, and launching attacks on the “decadent West,” with tirades against homosexuality and liberalism.
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