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Now it can be told that the central bank had 25 to 30 disaster scenarios ready in case things went badly.
Ethicists have grappled with such scenarios, and many would find this clinical option to be ethically sound.
Two scenarios for the timing of an interim compromise are possible, depending on whether it is a one- or two-step process.
Serious radiological contamination could result in each of these scenarios.
There are two scenarios – one benign, the other vindictive – for what another of my Berkeley colleagues, Laura Tyson, has called “progressive federalism.”
Hezbollah is preparing intensively for such scenarios, building defenses, digging tunnels, and assembling a powerful missile arsenal.
An accord between Syria and Israel is a key element of all proposed scenarios for Arab-Israeli peace.
There now seem to be two scenarios for women’s future status in Egypt, neither of which is very hopeful.
But Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s much-ridiculed bank “stress tests” made sense (although one can argue that sufficiently dire scenarios were not included or that too much was negotiated with the banks, etc.).
Forecasts are always hazardous, but some “what-if” scenarios shed considerable light on what all of this means for the world’s largest economy.
One can imagine several scenarios.
The US obviously would be best served by encouraging the third of these scenarios and discouraging the first two.
These two scenarios of the origins of economic nationalism, one irrational and the other not, are not real alternatives, but describe responses that intertwine: the more rational the fear, the more that fear can be used as an instrument of politics.
Europe may be facing another moment of reckoning, and the scenarios are bleak.
To determine whether the world may be able to meet these goals by the 2030 deadline, we considered four scenarios, ranging from business as usual to total economic transformation.
In any of these scenarios, human wellbeing could improve in the short term, but would be severely undermined in the longer term, as we blew past planetary boundaries and tipping points.
In Libya, four scenarios may negatively affect prospects for democratization: civil/tribal war, military rule, becoming “stuck in transition,” and partition.
Given the high price Libyans have paid, those scenarios should be prevented rather than cured.
All of these scenarios will be affected by outcomes in Egypt and Tunisia.
At the moment, China watchers are focusing on two scenarios.
Two intriguing observations emerge from these two scenarios.
A proper assessment of the consequences of the fiscal policies demanded by the plan should focus not on a single value, but on a range of values based on plausible scenarios from an optimistic to a pessimistic bound.
Consider two scenarios.
During the global economic free fall between the fall of 2008 and the spring of 2009, an L-shaped economic and financial Armageddon was still firmly in the mix of plausible scenarios.
Two IEA climate-policy scenarios show how we could stabilize the concentration of greenhouse gases at 550 or 450 parts per million of CO2 equivalent.
Japan’s Self Defense Forces outlined three scenarios of a potential Chinese invasion and are making preparations accordingly, while the Japanese government announced last month that it had formally taken control of an island chain over which China, Taiwan, and Japan all claim sovereignty.
Recently, the US National Intelligence Council published four widely different scenarios for the world in 2020: Davos World, in which economic globalization continues, but with a more Asian face;Pax Americana, where the US continues to dominate the global order;New Caliphate, where Islamic religious identity challenges the dominance of western norms; and Cycle of Fear, in which non-state forces create shocks to security that produce Orwellian societies.
Like any exercises in futurology, such scenarios have their limits, but they help us ask which three or four major political factors will help shape the outcome.
We are in denial about scenarios that could cause such devastation that even one occurrence would be too many.
Some suggested scenarios can be dismissed, but we should surely try to assess which ones cannot – and study how to mitigate them.
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