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The Path to Financial Re-RegulationBRUSSELS – Today, some people are saying that the storm of the financial crisis is subsiding.
While the chance of a perfect storm – with all of these risks materializing in their most virulent form – is low, any one of them alone would be enough to stall the global economy and tip it into recession.
It is a much bigger storm than any that has occurred since the end of World War II.
OXFORD – A new way of thinking about individual choice has taken the political landscape by storm.
Yet the real storm is yet to come.
At the time, Khodorkovsky was the wealthiest man in Russia and an open critic of the Russian government, so his arrest triggered a storm of international protest.
Inflation, unemployment, sanctions, and falling oil prices have created a perfect storm, threatening the stability of the regime.
As a result, Israel, embattled and facing a gathering storm of regional threats, had to find its own way to talk, without the diplomatic assistance of its big brother.
After all, in Italy, too, the signs point to a coming storm – one bearing down not only on austerity, but also increasingly on the euro itself.
And after the storm hits Italy, France could be next.
A Turkish Thorn in the EU’s SideMADRID – While the European Union tries to weather a nationalist storm that threatens its core institutions, some of its most important strategic allies have injected more uncertainty into the current political climate.
The jury remained out even after Kenya in early 2008, when horrific post-election violence was widely considered an RtoP case, and former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan led a successful diplomatic mission to persuade ethnic-group leaders to quell the storm.
The Decline of the West RevisitedLONDON – The terrorist slaughter in Paris has once again brought into sharp relief the storm clouds gathering over the twenty-first century, dimming the bright promise for Europe and the West that the fall of communism opened up.
Should we be genuinely anxious, and begin battening down the hatches to prepare for a coming storm?
As May recounts: “The odds on a 100 year storm do not change because people think that such a storm has become more likely.”
Contrast that with Typhoon Haiyan, the most powerful storm ever to make landfall in the Philippines.
Amnesty International’s appeal was met by a storm of opposition – some of it from people who were evidently failing to distinguish between the sex industry as a whole and the human trafficking that, in many countries, is a tragic part of it.
But just a few weeks later, the AWF launched a feasibility study to improve livelihoods and climate-change resilience throughout Mozambique’s Inhambane Province, where the storm struck.
And the forces that made intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq so difficult are of course the very forces at the heart of the storm today.
The approaching storm, and the measures that must be taken to address it, will bring enormous change.
Nevertheless, up to now, Russia’s government and private sector have weathered the storm reasonably well.
Critics of Vladimir Putin’s regime argue that Russia’s political system is too centralized and risks collapse in today’s economic storm.
China’s Perfect StormNew York – A perfect storm is brewing that could threaten China’s relations with the world.
The storm is on the horizon, but there may still be time to prepare to weather it safely.
In today’s perfect storm of declining oil prices and closed political systems, a new wave of protest could well emerge, particularly where governments have not recognized that the end of rentierism marks the end of the old social contract.
With what one commentator described as “his rock star looks and PR charm,” Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of Canada, has taken the city by storm in his first weeks as Governor of the Bank of England.
China’s economic exceptionalism is now being threatened by a perfect storm of existing stresses – namely, the domestic debt build-up – and new complications, including US trade barriers, the geopolitical pushback against China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and tightening monetary conditions, particularly in the United States.
Amid this perfect storm of economic challenges, there are also growing questions about whether Chinese President Xi Jinping has as strong a grip on events as he would like everyone to think.
This was sure to kick up a political storm, and French trade unions have already responded by threatening a general strike for the second week in September.
In response, Iglesias has declared that, “one cannot storm heaven by consensus.”
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