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Redefining Europe, and EuropeansLEIPZIG – Traveling through Germany in the run-up to its federal election on September 24, one cannot help but be struck by the lingering signs of profound trauma from the 2015 refugee crisis.
As I strolled through Tiananmen Square, the paradox that struck me was that the very system of democratic capitalism that the West has so ardently believed in and advocated now seems to be failing us.
Two years ago, on January 12, 2010, Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake that killed more than 220,000 people and shattered the country’s prospects.
But, after the floods struck, donors gave Mozambique more than $100 million in relief alone, and pledged more than $450 million for recovery and reconstruction.
When I first visited India as an American government official in the late 1970’s, I was struck by my Indian hosts’ fixation on gaining equal status with China.
But Ebola struck soon after, shifting attention to clinics, quarantines, and reports of cures.
Germany’s Neighborhood WatchFRANKFURT – On a recent trip to Germany, I was struck by two distinct narratives.
What struck me was not the announcement itself, but the name of the CEO: Cliff Reid, the CEO when I knew him in the 1980’s of a text-search company called Verity.
Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans in 2005, led to 40,000 job losses that year.
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I, too, was born in the village, and lived there until it was struck by a brutal famine when I was two years old.
Visiting Japan on a speaking tour, I am struck by the positive impact of the economy-related stories on people’s thinking and behavior, and also by how fragile that change is.
In the US, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, is waging verbal war against virtually every trade agreement his country has ever struck.
Merkel has acute political antennae, and her response struck a deep chord with popular sentiment.
While the French Senate recently struck down a similar law, several European countries are pressing ahead.
Perhaps the strongest evidence of this is the nuclear deal that he struck with six countries – China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States – and the European Union in 2015.
A New Democratic Agenda for RussiaMOSCOW – When Russian President Dmitri Medvedev delivered his annual address to the Federal Assembly I was struck by the fact that his speech seemed to be meant for an advanced, prosperous country, not the real Russia of today.
But the Asian financial crisis that struck later that year halted the region's trajectory of rapid growth.
So a balance must be struck: the global community must lift 1.5 billion people out of poverty, while the excesses of the world’s richest consumers – which cause the vast majority of ecological degradation – must be limited.
Clearly, a balance will need to be struck.
Corporate Political Speech is Bad for ShareholdersCAMBRIDGE – The United States Supreme court recently struck down limits on the freedom of companies to spend money on political elections.
Now it has been struck by a combination of prolonged deflation and the shocks caused by the recent natural disasters.
Israel’s Lonely ProsperityPARIS – It is difficult not to be struck by the contrast between the “Asian”-like energy of Israel’s economy and civil society and the purely defensive nature of its approach to political change, both within and outside the country.
What historians have known for 2,000 years – and what the eighteenth century’s classical economists also knew – suddenly struck the new breed of mathematical economists in the 1990’s like a flash of lightning: prosperity depends on good government.
Israel struck first, but most observers regarded what it did as a legitimate act of self-defense against an imminent threat.
The WTO struck down U.S. import prohibitions enacted pursuant to its endangered species act because of concern that an open trading regime might otherwise be compromised.
This time, however, chances are good that a robust deal will be struck.
But the statute was heavily amended in the Spanish parliament, and, in 2010, Spain’s constitutional court struck down what little of importance was left in it.
Everybody who has studied nuclear decay processes has been struck by the myriad possible ways in which energy can be produced.
When Cyclone Ockhi struck coastal areas of Kerala last December, the central government provided just 2% of the aid the state government requested.
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