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Since seizing power following a 1999 coup, Musharraf has survived at least three serious assassination attempts.
None of these tasks can be achieved without serious reflection about political Islam.
The world also faces a serious investment problem, which the low cost of capital has done virtually nothing to overcome.
If this turns to full-blown deflation, accompanied by uncontrolled rising real interest rates, the risk to growth would be serious.
Focusing on one (say, the competitiveness problem in the tradable sector) to the exclusion of the other (perhaps a serious non-tradable demand shortfall or stagnant absolute productivity) will not be enough.
A concrete funding mechanism in trade agreements warrants serious consideration, particularly in areas such as the WTO’s trade-facilitation negotiations, where capacity-building in developing countries is a key issue.
But the West now faces serious competition from the rising nations of Asia, where education in math and science is flourishing.
Despite the country’s worrisome political stalemate, and the seeming entrenchment, at least for the moment, of ethnic politics, the chance to grab the “low-hanging fruit” of visa liberalization did encourage the Bosnian leadership to make a serious effort at reform in a relatively short period of time.
Western sanctions, which seemed to constitute only a pinprick a few months ago, appear to have inflicted serious damage, with the ruble having lost nearly half its value against the US dollar last year.
Now, with serious congestion slowing traffic in major cities to a crawl, the land gradient in housing prices is steep once again.
Serious efforts and far-reaching compromises are needed to begin the process of building institutions for regional security cooperation.
Britain’s Enemy WithinPRINCETON – Democracy everywhere is facing serious challenges.
Referenda, in particular, can carry serious risks.
The humanitarian emergency in northeast Nigeria is the country’s most serious since the Biafra famine in the 1960s.
But if governments and central banks are serious about identifying alternatives to the dollar and the euro, now is the time to start – and GDP-linked bonds are the place to look.
Failure to resolve the Cyprus problem is a potentially serious threat to good relations between NATO, Turkey, and the EU.
The unpredictable evolution of warfare poses a serious challenge for defense planners.
There is no doubt that, as President of France, Le Pen could do serious damage to the European project.
But serious damage was done, especially in emerging economies.
Of course, its current ideological hostility to Israel’s very existence is a serious issue; but Israel and the West should not compound their grievous mistake of not recognizing the legitimacy of its electoral victory in Gaza by rejecting any Palestinian state in which Hamas plays a governing role.
As a result, energy security has become a serious issue.
But if rebel troops are unable to advance toward the capital of Tripoli, and instead remain deadlocked with Qaddafi’s forces between the towns of Ajdabiyya and Brega, the opposition will face a serious dilemma.
Reforming the UNThe UN is in the midst of a serious, long-term crisis.
And if China becomes too aggressive toward its neighbors – for example, by demanding rights to offshore oil or territory in disputed waters – it will generate a serious diplomatic backlash.
Indeed, the single most difficult issue inhibiting serious movement toward disarmament – certainly in the case of Pakistan versus India, and Russia and China versus the US – are conventional arms imbalances, and ways of addressing them must rise to the top of the policy agenda.
If Merkel and Sarkozy are serious about preserving the euro, they will have to repair the damage caused by their reckless remarks.
But when one adds the growing precariat, one can see that the country has a serious problem on its hands.
This repression has had a serious impact on the scientific community, with Russia’s top scientific minds – unwilling to remain in an environment where greed and corruption stifle creativity and exploration – joining investors and capital in fleeing the country.
That said, America’s most serious challenge right now is to get the US economy and its governance in order.
The Kingdom perceives the Brotherhood’s influence in Arab countries, particularly the Gulf states, as a serious threat to its internal stability and survival.
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