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One of the main arguments for this posture was Russia’s uncertainty about whether later steps in the “approach by stages of adaptation” might be a threat to its strategic ballistic missiles.
This legitimate “mercantile” concern has supposedly been reciprocated by “small steps” by Russia in the direction of a policy of sanctions against Iran.
Taking such steps is not easy; it requires courageous political vision, looking beyond the interests of ruling cliques to the future of the Chinese nation.
The South Korean situation also involved difficult steps, including a confrontation between the government and the largest chaebol, some of which had quite blatantly violated the law.
At the Hawaii summit, Obama must orchestrate the first steps toward constructing an effective multilateral framework within which the complications posed by China’s rise can be addressed.
These are laudable steps for China, given its poor record on transparency.
So it is time to ask: what viable steps have been taken to create a financial architecture able to contain and reduce this number?
The steps that need to be taken internationally for such a system to take root have already been mapped in what was achieved by individual countries over recent decades, when institutions, such as central banks and regulatory agencies, were created to help manage the rapid growth of private banks and financial markets.
Finally, if the US steps back, the EU, the United Nations, and even China can remind the Russians of the political consequences of flagrantly violating international law and swallowing up impoverished, restive territories that will prove far harder to digest than the fixed referendum results would suggest.
In the US, which similarly has an integrated banking system, the federal government steps in when banks in a state are in serious trouble.
Specifically, the federal government steps in through the agency of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which has a credit line with the US Treasury.
The federal government steps in – and has the capacity to do so – when, for example, civil liberties are being violated.
In general, Obama has pursued a policy of nuclear balance in which steps towards disarmament are accompanied by measures to retain America’s nuclear primacy.
Despite these positive steps, however, the US has not fully escaped the legacy of Cold War coercive democracy.
Fourth, economies with structural rigidities need to take steps to remove them.
Under Rato, the IMF at least took some modest steps towards giving China and other rapidly emerging markets more say in running the place.
But, as Iran steps up military support for the Iraqi government, Iranian officials fear, quite reasonably, that intervention could suck the country into an open-ended sectarian civil war.
He is not naive, and knows that patience, compromise, and a policy of small steps are often needed.
It imposed rules requiring majority support from members of functional constituencies as well as geographic constituencies to take such steps.
The agreement includes substantial steps to enforce the prohibitions contained in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
It also takes substantial steps to limit subsidies for fishing fleets – which in many countries waste taxpayer money and accelerate the depletion of marine life.
These include measures to promote union rights in Vietnam and steps to crack down on human trafficking in Malaysia.
In the few instances where the US took steps to alter the behavior of repressive states, Europe's governments and peoples expressed open skepticism about the sincerity of America's humanitarian motives.
This criticism reflects the fact that the United States has just been through a major financial crisis, in the course of which the Fed took a series of extraordinary steps.
The formula could run as follows: a comprehensive agreement about the final status now (taking into account all open questions, including East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine); implementation of the agreement in pre-defined steps over a longer period of time; and monitoring of the process via a mechanism based on the presence on the ground of a third party (led by the US).This would give Palestinians a guarantee of their state’s borders, its capital, and the Israeli occupation’s pre-defined endpoint.
Subsequently, we were able to take the first steps toward arms control and disarmament.
Measures to prevent flooding and steps to repair damaged areas of Bangkok cannot even begin until the rubble is cleared.
To save it, I believe, requires a kind of “Grand Bargain” approach, rather than incremental steps, with Germany agreeing, effectively, to some form of mutualization of debt, while the debtor countries carry out profound structural reforms, and the ECB stands fully behind the bargain.
But political decisions can also be taken by a process of effluxion that begins with an attitude, turns into a series of tactical steps driven by the attitude, and then results in a decision that is strategic in effect but almost imperceptible at any one moment.
In 1946, when Europe was debating its first tentative steps toward integration, Winston Churchill gave his famous speech calling for a United States of Europe.
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