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Aware of a potential
threat
from within their ranks, Musharraf has populated his inner circle with relatively junior (and reliably loyal) officers.
Military leaders know this, and the
threat
that they will eventually push him aside will plague his presidency well into next year.
To counter this threat, democratic bodies invariably need special rules to protect minorities, such as the requirement of qualified majority voting or unanimous decision-making.
The emotional debates over “shock therapy” vs. gradualism have been replaced by a broad consensus that, while we need to exploit windows of political opportunity, not everything can be done at once, and reversal is always a
threat.
Today, poorly thought-out reforms in North Africa and the Middle East are being rushed through under the perceived
threat
of Islamist extremism.
Fundamentalism seems to emerge in times of far-reaching change, when traditional social arrangements come under
threat.
But the relentless march of new initiatives to meet the perceived “China threat” will require the region’s political leaders, including the Chinese, to address their disputes in new and more creative ways if that outcome is to be avoided.
With the exception of the almost defunct six-party talks aimed at eliminating the nuclear
threat
posed by North Korea, Asia’s powers refuse to be constrained by international rules or norms.
Nearly a quarter-century later, the Balkans continue to constitute a
threat
to European peace, just as they did on the eve of World War I and at the end of the Cold War, when Yugoslavia’s implosion led not only to Europe’s first war since 1945, but also to the return of genocidal murder.
Failure to resolve the Cyprus problem is a potentially serious
threat
to good relations between NATO, Turkey, and the EU.
But that remains a long-term strategic goal, not the stuff of presidential campaigns, especially when China seems too weak to pose any immediate
threat
to the US on any front in the foreseeable future.
Northern European demagogues, like Geert Wilders, see Islam as the main
threat
to Western civilization, but defend such causes as gay rights (because Muslims supposedly hate them).
In Britain, Johnson stands for, well, Johnson, but his fellow Brexiteers are less interested in the Islamic
threat
than in a grandiose version of English nationalism.
The thought of President Le Pen is so terrifying, it seems, posing such a
threat
to the future of Europe, that it remains for many a possibility they dare not entertain, much less plan for.
But that
threat
is precisely why Europe must address seriously the possibility of her winning, however unlikely it may seem.
The US Congress cannot expect to use the
threat
of default – that is, a weapon of mass financial destruction – as a normal means of extracting concessions.
Nuclear weapons would make the
threat
posed by the Iranian regime all the more severe.
Bombs AwayLONDON – One of the most dispiriting features of today’s international debates is that the
threat
to humanity posed by the world’s 23,000 nuclear weapons – and by those who would build more of them, or be only too willing to use them – has been consigned to the margin of politics.
The first message is that the
threat
of a nuclear weapons catastrophe remains alarmingly real.
But that
threat
did not materialize.
The Putin regime’s aversion to complexity has intensified over time, moving from the relatively innocuous belief that simplicity translates into clarity, manageability, predictability, and safety, to the dangerous conclusion that complexity itself – inherently unpredictable and often impenetrable – is a
threat.
The view that individual opportunity and heterodoxy should be subordinated to overall predictability empowered the political elite to claim omniscience and cite outside interference as the main
threat
to Russia’s future.
While science was not initially deemed a threat, within today’s tightly restricted social and political order, it has emerged as a symbol of autonomy and diversity.
The Kingdom perceives the Brotherhood’s influence in Arab countries, particularly the Gulf states, as a serious
threat
to its internal stability and survival.
An important part of these reforms is to abolish jail time for non-fraudulent bankruptcies, which remains a real
threat
for owners of small businesses throughout the region.
India, like many other countries with economic interests in the Pacific, wants freedom of maritime navigation to be assured, with no
threat
of a Chinese veto.
Deadlines have been indispensable for achieving sustainable-development and carbon-reduction goals: saving the world from the
threat
of nuclear annihilation is hardly a less urgent and important objective.
In the space of a few months, therefore, Sunni Muslims took over from the Shia as
threat
number one.
It was the
threat
of Shia militancy, exported from Iran, that led the region’s rulers to set up the Gulf Cooperation Council in 1981 and attempt to pool their strengths.
Deep-seated biases and resentments – China’s so-called century of humiliation following the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century and America’s inability to get out of its own skin when assessing the ideological
threat
posed by a socialist state like China – sustained a long-simmering distrust that set the stage for the current conflict.
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