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Exposure to the outside world through travel, satellite TV, and the Internet has increased public demand for political rights, including the democratic representation that
state
paternalism has historically denied.
The right is both for and against Europe; for a market economy and for workers’ ownership; for a strong welfare
state
and lower taxes; for modernization of agriculture and the preservation of small family farms.
CAMBRIDGE – When Adam Smith was 22, he famously proclaimed that, “Little else is requisite to carry a
state
to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 shows how wrong Smith was, for it highlights the intricate interaction between modern production and the
state.
Similarly, the more that recovery and sustained growth strengthen banks’ balance sheets, the less urgency policymakers feel to address structural shortcomings, such as the implicit guarantees enjoyed by
state
banks and municipal savings banks in Germany, and the problems of family-controlled banks like Banco Espirito Santo in Portugal.
“The House Republican plan would cut the top tax rate back to 30% or lower,” he writes, before listing a few “mights”: the bill “might…eliminate the estate tax”; and it “might eliminate tax deductions for
state
and local taxes, and tax some of the fringe benefits that are currently excluded from taxable income.”
Israel and NATO – Between Membership and PartnershipMADRID – The idea of integrating Israel into NATO has frequently been advanced as bait to encourage the Jewish
state
to make the necessary concessions for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
This explains the almost continuous stream of measures that emanate from Beijing these days: increased public spending, monetary easing, pressure on
state
enterprises to expand activity, subsidies to exporters, partial convertibility of the remninbi to spur trade with neighboring countries, and so on.
Intellectual Property and Economic DevelopmentWASHINGTON, DC – In his recent
State
of the Union address, US President Barack Obama reiterated his ambition to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed trade agreement among the US and 11 Pacific countries.
Such laws make investigations into official corruption far more difficult for independent journalists, who have often been taken to court by senior managers and
state
officials simply for reporting on their luxurious lifestyles.
Putin’s grip on
state
media has been tightening since December 2013, when channels were regrouped in the Rossiya Segodnya consortium to improve the presentation of Russia’s “story.”
Qaddafi used strong security services and paramilitary revolutionary committees to safeguard his rule, leaving
state
institutions dysfunctional and fragmented.
This atomization of the
state
and society continues to impede Libya’s ability to establish effective and credible government.
But they must also accept that only modernization of Libya’s
state
and society – the agenda that Qaddafi pursued, albeit in a perverted form – will ensure the country’s survival.
Afghans’ fears and concerns are focused on what legacy will be left behind, and whether the Afghan
state
can provide security, justice, and good governance, which it has so far been unable to deliver in the face of an insurgency whose strength is not significantly weakened.
Reintegration and reconciliation, which are meant to offer incentives to insurgents to switch sides and perhaps join Afghan security institutions or nominally pro-government militias, are seen as being driven by military logic, rather than representing an honest dialogue between the state, the insurgents, and ordinary Afghans.
Leaving aside credible questions about the capacity of the Afghan security forces, transferring security responsibility to the Afghan
state
does not address broader Afghan grievances about bad governance or the abuse of power – both key drivers of the conflict.
The process must also include real disarmament to ensure that Afghans do not fall prey to a continuing cycle of violence, and that the Afghan
state
establishes genuine control of security.
But that requires commitment to a real vision of what constitutes a minimally functioning Afghan state, beyond the obvious need for effective security forces.
As an adviser to the Chinese government said on my recent trip, “movements in the stock-price index are totally unrelated to the real
state
of the economy.”
China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Fu Ying expressed her country’s anxiety about this
state
of affairs in a recent interview.
The Pope will be invited as a head of
state
(the Vatican) not in his spiritual capacity.
A
state
can threaten death, but, as many totalitarian regimes have learned, no one is stronger - and possibly more dangerous - than those who have overcome the fear of death.
Although he returned an hour later and delivered the rest of his speech, Egyptians began to demand greater transparency regarding the president's health as well as other
state
affairs.
The president is the head of
state
and commander-in-chief; officiates over the Supreme Judiciary Council, the Supreme Police Council, and the Cabinet of Ministers; and can appoint and recall one or more vice-presidents at his sole discretion.
He also appoints the prime minister and senior ministers, and must approve all other ministers, ambassadors, and
state
representatives.
He can call general elections, declare war, impose a
state
of emergency, and issue decrees that have the force of law.
No other head of
state
in modern times enjoys as much power.
But, after a brief exchange of views behind closed doors, no joint statement was issued and only a heavily sanitized account of the meeting was made available to China’s
state
media.
The island ran its own affairs, becoming a rambunctious democracy in the 1980s, but never insisted on international recognition as a full-fledged sovereign
state.
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