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Moreover, the Keynesians’ preferred policies address only the consequences of secular stagnation, not its causes – about which there is even less agreement.
All are variations on the same discordant theme: a nationalist leader comes to power when economic malaise gives way to chronic and secular stagnation.
Only bold policies can halt Europe’s slide toward secular stagnation and nationalist populism.
Radical Islamists targeted us because our people generally hold secular views of politics and society, with women, for example, playing a prominent role in public and professional life.
By ignoring us, Western governments are disregarding the secular, democratic values that they claim to uphold.
Secular stagnation threatens the West, accompanied by rising protectionism sentiment.
Developed countries’ strong postwar investment performance dispelled fear of secular stagnation.
But it does seem to me that contemporary apostles of secular stagnation like Summers and Paul Krugman at least ought to be taking the shale-energy revolution into account.
Turkey’s Death SpiralBISHKEK – The series of terrorist attacks that have struck Turkey over the last year are sending the country – once viewed as a democratic, secular model for the Middle East – into a death spiral at the very moment when its people are to vote on a new constitution next month.
There has also been a shift toward secular politics and weakening support for sharia (Islamic religious law).
Now, however, policymakers admit that it was precisely the persistence of secular Arab autocracies that encouraged Islamist terrorism.
Secular Stagnation Heads SouthSANTIAGO – As commodity prices come back to earth and the Federal Reserve’s gradual exit from quantitative easing leads to higher interest rates in the United States, Latin America’s economies face the challenge of sustaining growth.
That brings us back to secular stagnation.
Turkey's secular bureaucratic establishment has traditionally been pro-West but with a strong dose of nationalism.
Meanwhile, the significance of the reconciliation agreement signed last May by Hamas and Fatah, the secular nationalist movement that controls the Palestinian Authority, remains uncertain.
But when major structural and secular challenges arise, as is the case today, the advanced countries’ institutional architecture acts as a major obstacle to effective action.
This approach to Islamic texts – coming from both secular and religiously oriented Muslims, as well as from non-Muslims with an interest in the subject – calls into question the compatibility of Islam and democracy, and also whether Islam is capable with peace and moderation.
The first is secular dictatorship.
First, dictatorship itself is ugly and unacceptable; second, secular dictatorship excludes Islamic parties from participating normally in the political system.
As with a secular dictatorship, Islamic dictatorship is ugly and destructive.
A third alternative is democracy, but with secular restrictions on religious parties.
So her work naturally posited female freedom in a secular, solitary, and individualistic context, in which “freedom” means pure autonomy rather than integration within a whole – comprising family, community, and even God – on equal terms.
Perhaps in a secular age ethical behavior has no other basis than one’s own conscience.
Then there are the secular political ideologies, such as socialism, which have a strong ethical component.
Japanese policymakers have good reason to try to promote some inflation and even correct some of the yen’s secular appreciation over the last six or seven years.
The head of an unlikely alliance of reformist Islamists, secular civil-society groups, and Iraq’s communist party, Sadr won the recent parliamentary election by promising a nationalist drive to oust Iran from Iraq.
We live in an age in which many people are disillusioned with secular politics, and are turning to religion instead, not only throughout the Muslim world, but in the core of Western civilization, Christian Europe and Evangelist America.
These parties have shifted the regional balance of power away from secular governments, and Putin blames the United States for empowering them through its attempts to impose democracy on the region.
But in so infringing basic human rights to freedoms of association and expression to such a degree, Turkey’s restrictions on veiling are now, paradoxically, imperiling one of secular Turkey’s great ambitions: joining the European Union.
Banning or restricting veils, however, is not confined to Muslim countries seeking to maintain a secular orientation in politics.
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