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In fact, Kipling’s poem, “The White Man’s Burden,” which exhorted the white race to spread its values to the “new-caught sullen peoples, half devil and half child,” was not about the British Empire at all, but about the United States.
Such research may also shed light on whether the current extraordinary expansion of the U.S. economy, which has lasted uninterrupted for the past nine years, is simply a prolonged streak of luck or represents the effect of a new technological revolution, similar to the one which occurred at the end of the 19th century and which is best symbolized by the spread of electric power.
The crisis in Ukraine, many of whose Soviet-era industries depend on cheap Russian gas, soon spread to Europe, which consumes 80% of Russian gas exports, when Ukraine began to divert gas from the pipeline that crosses its territory.
And in the first week of August 2007, IKB Deutsche Industriebank disintegrated, as the US subprime crisis spread.
In such circumstances--without hope for a better future or the opportunity for compassion-based interaction with society--drug use and HIV spread rapidly.
By treating drug use first and foremost as a problem of public health, nations can fight the spread of HIV far more effectively.
RCV has already been adopted by a number of American cities and the state of Maine, and one hopes it will continue to spread in the years ahead.
But this would surely change as its dynamic private sector, facing down the government’s protectionist instincts, lobbied for membership – a proposition that would become difficult to resist as the TAP’s influence spread.
We need a sustained global commitment to disarmament and continued common efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction in order to maintain the credibility of the collective security system.
Terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, genocide, poverty, hunger, global warming, huge natural disasters, and the spread of deadly diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis all exemplify global challenges that require multilateral solutions.
The demise of military dictatorships and the spread of democratic regimes throughout Latin America (except for Cuba) means that even severe economic, class, ethnic, and other tensions now more often manifest themselves politically, in struggles for votes and influence.
Malaysia’s political parties use anti-Shia animus to spread fear, helping to attract votes and consolidate power.
The Tequila crisis demonstrates that rapid multilateral action - in this case, a $50 billion package to refinance short-term debts at below-market rates - can also be effective in preventing the spread of contagion.
A bulwark of secular government and anti-fundamentalism in a North Africa that is struggling to contain the spread of Islamic extremism, Libya is of strategic importance to Europe and the US beyond its oil riches, notwithstanding the overwhelming significance of its energy resources.
Europeans are experiencing an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity; their integration model has now spread to include most of the continent.
What is disconcerting, however, is not only the relentless financing and spread of war, but also the lack of an alternative US strategy.
With 111 Indian enclaves spread over 17,000 acres in Bangladesh, and 51 Bangladeshi enclaves spread over 7,110 acres in India, a settlement would involve a net transfer of some 40 square kilometers (15.4 square miles) of territory from India to its eastern neighbor.
Then panic spread to credit markets, money markets, and currency markets, highlighting the vulnerabilities of many developing countries’ financial systems and corporate sectors, which had experienced credit booms and had borrowed short and in foreign currencies.
And there is a large difference (spread) between the interest rates the banks set and the T-bill rate.
When the crisis spread to Portugal and Spain, there was the $1 trillion rescue.
It’s not always easy to distill a singular message from an event like this, especially as the CDF, once a small intimate gathering, has morphed into a Davos-like extravaganza of some 50 sessions spread out over three days.
Taboos had been broken, and during the subsequent decades, technological advances enabled the spread of new ideas.
After all, ISIS is also using technology, but in a sinister way: to spread gruesome propaganda and recruit new members.
Within weeks, the popular revolt triggered by Bouazizi’s act had spread far beyond Tunisia, engulfing much of the Arab world.
Technology and economic development are proliferating across Asia and the developing world, while the spread of literacy and political awareness during the past century made national self-determination by far the dominant ideology of our age, leading to the end of colonialism.
Beneficial ones would spread until the entire species carried them.
But to think that is to forget past progressive uprisings, such as in Beirut in 2005, Algiers and Tehran in 2009, and the Arab Spring that began in Tunisia and spread throughout the region in 2011.
The spread of Islamic law in Nigeria--since late 1999 ten of the country's 36 states have adopted Sharia as their public law--has provoked a sharp outcry against the severe punishments it levies, including amputation for thieves and death by stoning for woman convicted of adultery.
First, with the current raw materials bonanza driving up prices of exported goods, the region is increasingly vulnerable to the so-called “Dutch disease,” whereby higher wages and prices spread throughout the economy, weakening competitiveness, particularly in industrial markets.
It would be a mistake to believe that the deaths of thousands of civilians, along with arbitrary imprisonment and torture, do not contribute to the spread of terror in Iraq.
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