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The challenge for Israel is to tie its military tactics and diplomacy to a clearly defined political goal.
But such pressure tactics have been rendered more difficult by a recent Supreme Court decision limiting the use of conditional spending by the federal government to “coerce” state officials into implementing federal policies.
In a way, this reveals a paradox of Latin American democracy: exclusive, minority governments that devalue and weaken the state are no longer acceptable, while the rise of personalismo – a concentration of power and coupled with refractory political tactics – are bringing about fragmentation and unruly governance.
Their sponsors must change their tactics, building their ranks and plotting attacks underground.
It is also becoming increasingly clear that Hu will continue to rely on a variety of politically retrograde propaganda tactics.
These delaying tactics are enabled by a lack of pressure from below.
Election-year tactics aside, American voters are right.
As leader of the nationalist Likud opposition to the governments of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, his tactics in opposing the Oslo agreements between the Labour led government of Israel and the PLO was to characterize both Mr. Rabin and Mr. Peres as traitors, the functional equivalents of such infamous collaborators as Petain and Quisling.
And under President Vladimir Putin, the country has reverted to Cold War tactics against domestic dissidents and foreign targets, including the United States.
Xu Zerong, a social scientist trained at Harvard and Oxford, is serving a 13-year sentence in Guangdong Province for photocopying materials on Chinese military tactics during the 1950-53 Korean War.
Yugoslavia is but a miniature version of what might happen in Ukraine if Yanukovych’s tactics are allowed to bring ethnic antagonisms to the boiling point.
Devious and erratic negotiating tactics, coupled with secret schemes to prepare – as part of a “Plan B” – for an exit from the euro, undermined the government’s trustworthiness, leading even Paul Krugman to admit: “I may have overestimated the competence of the Greek government.”
They want an American leader who asks questions, who faces facts, who changes tactics when it becomes necessary to do so.
This year, new investigations, including by the World Health Organization, showed that major tobacco companies like Philip Morris have continued to use covert and illicit tactics to advance their business interests, at the expense of public health.
Opposing parties use the same weapons, develop comparable tactics, and preach increasingly similar ideals.
If the Trump administration tries such crude tactics with China, it will be in for a rude surprise.
Both King Abdullah and President Salih understand the problem; they need to stop using the old tactics and grasp the strategic need for change.
Most importantly, their tactics have proven massively destructive of wealth in the US.
Its tactics thus appear politically sustainable, at least through the 2012 elections.
Perhaps the most damaging outcome of these tactics is to take countercyclical fiscal policy off the table completely.
But today’s atmosphere of fear and aggressive budget tactics are combining to undermine private-sector confidence and spending power.
Given that Ukraine’s participation would significantly enhance the union’s legitimacy, Russia is using all available tactics – from lower gas prices to trade sanctions – to persuade its leaders to join.
The Bush Administration felt betrayed by French diplomatic tactics at the United Nations, while French President Jacques Chirac felt confirmed in his mistrust of the sole superpower and his call for a multipolar world.
The problem is mistaken tactics by the Chinese government.
So the regime is making a fatal error if it thinks that its old diversionary tactics will continue to provide it with immunity.
In his foreign policy, too, Sarkozy seems to combine the right intuitions with the wrong tactics – that is, when his entire strategy is not marred by the pursuit of contradictory objectives.
Though China is employing ostensibly peaceful tactics to advance the initiative, its primary goal is not mutually beneficial cooperation; it is strategic supremacy.
Voters’ aversion to Brexit’s adverse consequences, analogous to the realism that gradually dawned in Greece after its 2015 referendum rejected an EU bailout, helps to explain the otherwise perplexing tactics of Prime Minister Theresa May and her Conservative Party.
Defending Russia’s national interests, in their view, demands hard bargaining tactics, even if these now verge on the comical, as in the recent case of supposed British spies hiding secrets in a rock in a Moscow park.
Such tactics, in which banks are nudged, not coerced, into investing in government debt, constitute “soft” financial repression.
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