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At stake is the cohesion of a
state
that many argue is yet another example of an artificial nation cobbled together by Europeans who did not understand their creation’s social, tribal, and religious forces.
Kim believed that his nuclear strength had forced Trump to the summit without preconditions, making him Trump’s equal as a head of
state.
Part of the US strategy was to place additional pressure on China to rein in its client
state
or itself face tough financial penalties from Washington.
The military’s high and positive profile seems to suggest that it is the only institution left in a tottering
state
that seems able to stabilize a delicate situation.
Though North Korea is not yet officially a nuclear-weapons state, with its research and development programs continuing unabated, it could well be one soon.
Of course, Xi could simply declare that China’s version of
state
capitalism has worked well in the past, and will continue to do so.
First and foremost, it would reconcile a large
state
balance sheet with an expanding role for markets, bolstering employment, stimulating innovation, and advancing the economy’s structural transformation.
With public entities like the social security system and sovereign-wealth funds holding more diversified asset portfolios, incentives would be substantially reduced for market intervention favoring incumbents in which the
state
owned a large share.
Clearly specified fiduciary responsibilities and governance would help to ensure that publicly held assets were managed to maximize long-term risk-adjusted returns, with the
state
and citizens as beneficiaries and the market as the arbiter of efficiency and innovation.
This final motivation highlights the second major threat to the Peninsula’s stability: the specter of a failed
state.
For example, the US has declined to hold joint military exercises in the northeastern Indian
state
of Arunachal Pradesh, which China has claimed as “South Tibet” since 2006.
The creditors stand to lose large sums should a member
state
exit the monetary union, yet debtors are subjected to policies that deepen their depression, aggravate their debt burden, and perpetuate their subordinate position.
Brazil is already testing its appeal as an energy power through the actions of its powerful
state
energy company, Petrobras, which is now as active in Africa as it is in Argentina.
Oil revenues can be controlled by the
state
to be used, in part, for social programs, as in Venezuela.
The war in Algeria was, for de Gaulle, but another symptom of a dysfunctional state, an analysis that went back to his own experiences in 1940, when the French government proved unable to resist invasion by Hitler’s Germany.
The French
state
budget is chronically ill-managed, running deficits on par with Italy.
France’s elected monarchs have few reasons to be proud of their supposedly efficient
state.
Some psychiatrists had reported that excessive use could lead to a psychotic state, including hallucinations, delusions, and thought disturbance.
Significantly, whereas the regime previously sought to downplay the challenge posed by the opposition, Syrian
state
television has covered the fighting in Damascus extensively.
In April, Britain’s secretary of
state
for international development, Priti Patel, equated Kiir’s “scorched earth policy” and tribal targeting to acts of genocide.
The number of casualties – not just from the violence, but also the collapse of health services and other consequences of
state
failure – is probably in the millions.
If the Russian
state
functioned well, Putin could continue to withstand pressure from opposition leaders.
By making himself, in effect, the state, Putin, like the gerontocracy that collapsed with Gorbachev’s rise, is increasingly viewed as responsible for all
state
failures.
The result is a weakened
state
that serves the interests of the few, rather than protecting the many.
Such distinctions were not merely pernicious; they were often characterized by an unequal distribution of the resources of the
state
within a colonial society.
When a
state
has more than one colonial past, its future is vulnerable.
Underdevelopment in many countries of the South, which are faring poorly in their struggle to remain viable in a globalizing world, creates conditions of desperate poverty, ecological collapse and rootless, unemployed populations beyond the control of atrophying
state
systems.
And the recent ill-conceived proposals of the French president on
state
ownership made things even worse in Berlin.
A more confident left used to understand that our humanism compelled us to stop the xenophobes from getting their hands on the levers of
state
power, particularly the police and security forces.
The touching belief in the liberal-democratic state’s checks and balances, and in the idea that the rule of law would prevent Le Pen from turning
state
power against the vulnerable, is not one that the left can risk entertaining.
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