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India and the US have also been strengthening their strategic relations with Japan, not only bilaterally, but also in a unique trilateral way, which US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns has suggested could “reshape the international system.”
The main aim is to lower the level of risk for private investments, by improving economic and financial conditions and strengthening institutions.
But flexicurity is bound to fail badly in France, thus strengthening Le Pen’s xenophobic nationalists, because it can work only in a macroeconomic environment of investment-led growth.
For example, Italy’s recently launched Destinazione Italia program will help Italian companies succeed by establishing a more predictable tax system, reducing bureaucratic red tape, and ensuring more effective contract enforcement by strengthening the civil-justice system.
Their approach consists in hindering globalization – while maintaining or even enhancing other aspects of the Washington Consensus, such as financial deregulation – and strengthening democracy through the nation-state.
But, even as a host of other issues come into play, strengthening this most important of bi-lateral relationships requires a new, underlying common interest.
Second, strengthening the international protection system requires us to rethink the very idea of our responsibility toward refugees.
At that point, China will have a better chance of improving its legal institutions, increasing political accountability, strengthening protection of private property rights, and making the government genuinely – in Mao’s words – “serve the people.”
It can be done: Germany is reducing its debt burden to sustainable levels while strengthening its long-term growth prospects.
Its course of pro-growth deficit reduction, together with its suggestions for strengthening Europe’s fiscal framework, could serve as a blueprint for European economic governance.
All of this has contributed to strengthening these economies’ resilience to external shocks.
The reality is that rising anxiety among Asian countries about China’s increasingly muscular foreign policy has presented the US with an important opportunity to recapture its central role in the region by strengthening old alliances and building new partnerships.
Europe must make progress on the first opportunity if it is to seize the second, and that means strengthening the eurozone.
But START treaty ratification is going nowhere fast in the US Senate and progress on other key issues has been slow or shaky: bringing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty into force; starting negotiations on a new treaty to ban the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons; strengthening the non-proliferation regime with effective measures to detect violations and deter treaty walk-outs; reaching agreement on some form of international management of the most sensitive aspects of the fuel cycle; and, above all, starting new rounds of serious disarmament talks, involving not just the two nuclear superpowers, but all eight nuclear-armed states.
Instead, it will have to look inward, by taking advantage of regional trade opportunities and strengthening its human capital.
The main expectations are for a reduction of nuclear armaments, a cutback in the number of launch-ready warheads (de-alerting), negotiations on a Fissile Materials Cut-off Treaty, ratification of the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty, and other means of strengthening practical implementation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, especially its universal adoption.
Last year, however, as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pushed forward on strengthening Turkey’s Middle Eastern ties, visa requirements between the two countries were eased, with cross-border car traffic increasing 22% in five months.
Focusing on terrorism, the strategy calls for strengthening the network of international partners seeking to eradicate transnational terrorism, and for direct action against terrorist organizations and their sponsors.
In their "Declaration on Strengthening the Common European Policy on Security and Defence", EU governments announced the setting up of new permanent security institutions in Brussels, including a Political-Military Committee of civil servants and a Military Committee of staff officers.
Facilities should also implement policies to discharge mothers and newborns sooner rather than later, in order to reduce the potential for exposure to infectious microbes, and to educate mothers on the importance of breastfeeding in strengthening newborns’ immune systems.
Strategies that would help countries to overcome domestic insecurity and conflict, transform their economies, and, ultimately, meet their potential include strengthening governance institutions and the rule of law, ensuring multi-stakeholder participation, and guaranteeing that all citizens have equal access to justice.
In several areas, well-chosen investment – for example, upgrades of equipment and information systems in health care – could even reduce future public spending, thereby strengthening long-term fiscal positions.
Yet at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Addis Ababa last month, the momentum toward strengthening international tax cooperation came to an abrupt halt.
Four years later, at the Second Conference on Financing for Development, in Doha, Qatar, policymakers acknowledged that more needed to be done in tax matters, and asked ECOSOC to consider strengthening institutional arrangements.
The EU can help by strengthening its defense planning.
After their recent first round of strategic dialogue in Washington, the US, Japan, and India will hold more structured discussions in Tokyo, aimed at strengthening trilateral coordination.
In short, ongoing measures to buttress the global financial system have undoubtedly paid off, especially when it comes to strengthening capital cushions and cleaning up balance sheets in important parts of the banking system.
In addition to strengthening the banking sector, policymakers have also made progress toward standardizing derivative markets and making them more robust and transparent, which also reduces the risk of future taxpayer bailouts for irresponsible institutions.
With regard to economic and social policy, the government must manage the national debt while encouraging investment and employment and strengthening public education and health programs.
The disadvantages of strengthening Europe’s fiscal union further do not end there.
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