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For too long, African governments have listened to the siren song of free trade – and have suffered from too much openness, not too little.
In France, the siren song of appeasement is becoming a national rallying cry, from the far-right National Front to far-left elements – and among a growing number of mainstream politicians of all stripes.
Will voters heed the siren song of Trump – and do great damage to the US economy and to the world by embracing a self-destructive effort to wall themselves off from the world?
Just as my countrymen had remained strong in the face of terrorism, they held firm against the siren song of venomous populism.
But Abe’s government also recognizes that the world’s geopolitical tectonic plates are shifting, and that many in the US are tempted by the siren song of isolationism.
It demonstrates that, even as a country’s ethnic composition changes, as it faces terrorist attacks and a deep recession, it can resist the siren song of extremism.
But most people, it seems, will continue to listen to the siren song of "Orthodox brotherhood" so long as their economic plight remains so severe.
For Europe, to heed the siren song from the East – a melody of complementarity between Russia’s strategic power and the EU’s economic power – would be akin to paying the Mafia for protection.
Otherwise, the siren song of neo-nationalism will be difficult to resist.
With their old imperial ambitions and widespread distaste for the great continents from which the narrowest of seas divide them, both the British and the Japanese are vulnerable to the siren song of isolationism.
Enticed by the siren song of a shortcut to rapid economic growth, these inflows lulled emerging-market countries into believing that their imbalances were sustainable, enabling them to avoid the discipline needed to put their economies on more stable and viable paths.
China’s Financial FloodgatesNEW YORK – As China’s economy starts to slow, following decades of spectacular growth, the government will increasingly be exposed to the siren song of capital-account liberalization.
The West must ignore Belgrade’s siren song.
In a globalized world where labor income is under constant pressure, the siren song of asset markets as a growth elixir is far too tempting for the body politic to resist.
If voters in decaying French villages and small-town America succumb to despair and lose hope in the market economy, they will be vulnerable to the siren song of ethnic nationalism or full-bore socialism, either of which would destroy the delicate balance between markets and the state.
It is thus vital that governments resist the siren song of protectionism.
WASHINGTON, DC – The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the world into a dangerous state of disequilibrium, in which the siren call of populist nationalism and the clear, compelling necessity of global cooperation and collective action are locked in (literally) mortal combat.
But Pacific islanders know better than to succumb to the siren song of geoengineering.
It is better, the implication follows, for central banks to resist the siren song of QE.
To meet these challenges and achieve the SDGs, we must not succumb to the siren song of self-reliance.
If governments are to fulfill their responsibility to support people’s ability to reach their potential, they must not succumb to the siren song of protectionism or excessive social-welfare spending.
"Good lord," the Canadian went on, "it's rolled over on its back, and it's raising its breasts in the air!""It's a siren!"
In fact someone had sent his mother a long anonymous letter to warn her that he was "ruining himself with a married woman," and the good lady at once conjuring up the eternal bugbear of families, the vague pernicious creature, the siren, the monster, who dwells fantastically in depths of love, wrote to Lawyer Dubocage, his employer, who behaved perfectly in the affair.
He finally noticed they were speaking to him but he did not understand them, all he heard was a noise that filled all the space and through which there seemed to be an unchanging higher note sounding, like a siren.
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