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What the US and EU countries have in common, politically, is the use of false claims and scare tactics to compel citizens to retreat inward.
Once there is a deadline, procrastination can’t be part of the negotiating tactics.
But, because numerous countries employed the same tactics in an environment in which a broad array of capital controls was in place and official exchange rates were pegged to the US dollar, a parallel currency market flourished.
Last month, US President Barack Obama, in setting out his broader foreign-policy stance, spoke of Syria’s three evils – brutal military tactics, the terrorist threat from the opposition, and the need to support refugees.
Well-organized and well-financed non-state groups, like the Islamic State, may employ new tactics, technologies, and capabilities to steal nuclear materials.
The West European EU members have shown scant concern over Russian pressure tactics against the new members in Central and Eastern Europe, calling into question the extent of EU solidarity regarding energy supplies.
Russia has profited from Europe’s disarray by moving to cement greater long-term European dependence on its energy, particularly natural gas by continuing its divide-and-rule tactics toward European governments.
Today, too many Latin governments, fearful of the media’s ability to expose misdeeds, have altered their tactics but remain determined to limit press freedom.
It would be a tragedy if those who still want to control the media win by taking their tactics underground, behind closed doors.
But right-wing populists have stoked fears and misconceptions about the number of people arriving in Europe – and about the effects of migration on our societies – to such an extent that their tactics are fueling political cleavages across the continent.
Like other countries, US should occasionally use unilateral tactics.
Even when survival is not at stake, unilateral tactics sometimes induce others to make compromises that advance multilateral interests.
Finally, in choosing between multilateral and unilateral tactics, Americans must consider the effects of the decision on its soft power, which can be destroyed by excessive unilateralism and arrogance.
In balancing whether to use multilateral or unilateral tactics, or to adhere or refuse to go along with particular multilateral initiatives, any country must consider how to explain its actions to others and what the effects will be on its soft power.
If the US first makes an effort to consult others and try a multilateral approach, its occasional unilateral tactics are more likely to be forgiven.
Argentina’s hardball tactics and erratic policies did not endear it to investors.
Such tactics enabled the industry to delay, for more than 50 years, regulation that could have saved millions of lives annually.
Though it was expelled from Al Qaeda last February for, of all things, its excessively violent tactics, it has thrived, finding fertile ground for expansion in a civil-war-ravaged Syria and among Iraq’s Sunni population, which is increasingly alienated from the country’s Shia-led government.
Similarly, strategists at the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are likely poring over the Kremlin’s handiwork to inform their own cyber-war tactics.
But both tactics are unlikely to boost the European high-tech sector.
They historically have feuded over tactics and strategy, but, since the deficit is the difference between revenues and outlays, they are closely interconnected.
Illicit fishing operations rely on a range of tactics and loopholes in international law to get their products to market.
Unfortunately, the scare tactics employed by the Business Roundtable worked.
Moreover, as alliances and tactics evolve, the categories may increasingly overlap.
This model has inspired many others outside of South Africa, not least in countries still ruled by authoritarian regimes that use fear tactics to maintain their grip on power.
Mainstream parties must embrace the kind of open and constructive debate that nurtured parliamentary democracy in the Federal Republic’s early years, rather than remaining focused on political tactics.
Goldman Sachs could learn a lot from their tactics!
Oscar Jonsson, a doctoral student at King’s College London who specializes in Russian non-military warfare, told me that what makes countering Russian interference so difficult is that the tactics are subtle, sophisticated, and often believable.
At worst, they sometimes employ terrorist tactics (commonly defined as violence that deliberately targets civilians).
Iran has been using such tactics since 1979, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took power and began exporting his Islamist revolution across the Muslim world.
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