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If these tendencies continue, developing countries will probably suffer the most; but they won’t be alone.
But Russia is showing the same “expansive tendencies” of which Kennan warned.
There are good reasons to be worried about this, less because the Islamists are undemocratic than because of their illiberal tendencies.
Economic failure could fuel further nationalist, xenophobic tendencies – and even trigger military conflict.
Governments must also identify radical tendencies within Europe’s Muslim communities and devise strategies to counteract them.
Such a choice can encourage the most dangerous nationalist tendencies within a society that does not know, especially young people, what hides behind the silence and official lies.
In this new movement, the libertarian tendencies of the New Left and the protectionist tendencies of the traditional right became intertwined.
The simplistic categorization of political parties by their preference for a particular size of government masks more complex intraparty tendencies.
This matters in part because cities with a clear ethos can better resist globalization’s homogenizing tendencies.
With hard times approaching, will Cristina try to be a twenty-first-century Evita and create an epic by exploiting Argentines’ flamboyant tendencies, armed with an exceptional power or will she adopt Rouseff’s sensible attitude and combat inefficiency and corruption while strengthening governmental institutions?
Nearly all the activities collected under the banner of “science” have developed institutional tendencies that are similar to their economic counterparts.
Therefore, fascistic tendencies here are more imperialistic than nationalistic.
Yet Russia, like Saakashvili, is playing with fire: its strategy of encouraging separatist forces in the two Georgian provinces may inflame separatist tendencies in other parts of the Russian Federation (remember Chechnya?).
In Jordan and Morocco, the authorities are facing a rising challenge in containing militant tendencies.
They protect the Italian electorate from their politicians’ counterproductive inflationary tendencies.
Only a small minority exhibit populist tendencies that, if they gained power, could lead a society from democracy to dictatorship.
The foundation of our ability to form cooperative communities, organizations, and societies arises not from innate cooperative tendencies, but from the specifics of the social norms that we learn, internalize, and enforce on others.
These tendencies have been compounded more recently by the war against terrorism.
Given the risks confronting Europe, not to mention Trump’s isolationist tendencies, the Franco-German relationship will assume greater regional and global importance.
Both terms originated as criticisms that were supposed to undermine and subvert the political tendencies they described.
But both ended up being just as frequently and enthusiastically used by the respective tendencies’ proponents.
By putting paid to any revanchist tendencies in Russia concerning the Baltics, Europe is made a safer place, and Russia is helped in its effort to redefine itself as a national state and not an empire.
Poland’s new government faces several serious challenges, not the least of which will be to reconcile its liberal and populist tendencies.
Radical Islamic groups have engaged in indiscriminate bombings, while groups with strong authoritarian tendencies have made inroads into President Megawati's inner circle.
Insurance companies have faced a slow and difficult process in weaning the public from these tendencies.
Brazil’s presidential election in October will determine whether the country makes progress toward a new, more sustainable growth model or becomes more deeply mired in a largely exhausted economic strategy that reinforces its stagflationary tendencies.
Some display separatist tendencies that worry, and frustrate, their electorates.
It is possible that Kissinger’s most reactionary tendencies are now reemerging.
But the current specter of economic uncertainty is now reinforcing their nativism and chauvinism, just when similar tendencies are on the rise in the West.
Given the violent suppression of last September’s mass demonstrations (the “Saffron Revolution”) led by Burma’s Buddhist monks, and the constant repression in the country, it is not surprising that the military junta tries to shroud its despotic tendencies in pseudo-democratic measures such as the sham electoral process of the referendum.
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