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For much of the developing world, the basic instability of international relations – owing to terrorist strikes, guerrilla warfare, and the preemptive wars that America threatens on its enemies – is aggravating socioeconomic anxieties and fueling doubts about the benefits of globalization.
First, will the looming military strikes by the US and its allies against Syria be limited in scope and time, or will they trigger a wider military confrontation?
Ultimately, when the next recession strikes, central banks in advanced economies will have no choice but to plumb the zero lower bound once again while they choose among four unappealing options.
A Dutch Cure for the Dutch DiseaseSTANFORD – Far too few governments rein in their countries’ bloated welfare states before disaster strikes.
It also largely removes incentives for both management and workers to engage in the kind of costly strategic behavior -- such as strikes and lockouts -- that sometimes characterizes labor relations in investor-owned firms.
The strikes spread.
On May 27, the government organizes a meeting with trade union leaders, who have little to do with the strikes, and employers’ organizations, who have nothing at all to do with them.
The 'voice' of citizens, civil discontent and pressure, are sometimes sufficient to curb 'stronger' market forces (victorious strikes are a good example).
More often, only state legislation can enforce the will of citizens; strikes, for example, may be made legal or illegal depending on state regulation.
America and Europe Divided Over SaddamTalk is growing of a change in US defense doctrine to allow for pre-emptive strikes on states that harbor weapons of mass destruction.
As this UK-sponsored resolution was meant to bring the Iraq issue back to the Security Council after the withdrawal of the UN weapons inspectors and subsequent American air strikes of December 1998, hope for progress on Iraq within the Security Council was scant.
They condoned or even supported American air strikes against Baghdad in December 1998, and they supported or even participated in NATO's air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in March 1999.
Rather, Iranian policy will be shaped by its domestic politics, by the ability of the international community to present a united front, and by the willingness of the US to put forth a reasonable diplomatic offer against the backdrop of sanctions and potential military strikes should diplomacy fail.
But what strikes me is that these arguments focus only on improving the mix of outputs within an economy, with no attention paid to labor.
Ultimately, codependency leads to a loss of identity, serious frictions, and often a nasty breakup – unless one or both of the partners becomes more self-reliant and strikes out on his or her own.
In addition to assisting with emergency relief, it is crucial that the international community help to introduce basic procedures for responding long before disaster strikes.
Since then, however, Western Europe has secularized considerably, and the notion of basing political decisions on Catholic social teaching now strikes voters as quaint.
But while Trump may have overshot the mark, the idea that the US delegation should sit with glasses untouched during a toast also strikes the wrong tone.
But, beyond that, air strikes require targets – elusive when no armies are on the move – and all too often they produce innocent civilian casualties.
Instability just strikes like lightning.
And yet May’s statement strikes a chord.
The US, meanwhile, should end direct military strikes in the area, even if these are conducted with the knowledge and cooperation of Pakistan’s military.
America sends in missiles and air strikes that infuriate the people rather than aid and emissaries to engage them.
While the enemy weaves in and out of the tribal areas, living and interacting with the people, the US fights the war against Al Qaeda superficially through military air strikes and covert special operations.
Governments want the ability to decide how best to protect their countries’ perceived national interests when a crisis strikes.
And the victims are often the innocent “collateral damage” of Western strikes that hit homes, weddings, funerals, and community meetings.
I write seated in my office in Pristina, virtually hours before NATO strikes will hit Serbian positions.
I know that one of the results of the coming air strikes will be the destruction of Milosevic's war machine, to the extent that it will never arise again as did the Serb machinery in this century.
Major terrorist attacks in South Asia, like the 2008 Mumbai strikes and the 2008 and 2011 assaults on the Indian and US embassies in Afghanistan, respectively, were apparently orchestrated by the ISI, which has reared terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, and the Haqqani network to do its bidding.
What strikes me now, all these years later, is that a generation of leaders won not only a war, but also the peace.
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