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The threat to globalism seems to have waned in Europe, with populist candidates having lost elections in Austria, the Netherlands, and now Germany.
Those with large surpluses (such as China) will be under increasing pressure – including the threat of retaliation – to rein in their “mercantilist” policies.
Worse still, Russia's bureaucracy would likely perceive such activity as a threat, and so spare no effort to hinder Russia's businessmen from civilizing themselves.
That threat – or at least the threat of East and West Germany both being completely destroyed – persisted until the end of Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
As the current situation in North Korea shows, the nuclearization of East Asia or the Persian Gulf could pose a direct threat to world peace.
Ultimately, there are no good options for responding to the North Korean threat.
As Trump occupies himself with manipulating appearances and performances, the rest of the world is concerned about North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, the crisis in Syria, the Brexit negotiations, climate change, and the growing threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, and Nigeria.
As a result, the mere threat of military action may be sufficient to bring about Ukraine’s economic collapse.
A victorious Russia would pose a potent threat to the Baltic states, with their large ethnic Russian populations.
The threat to the EU’s political cohesion is even greater than the military risk.
Europe is fortunate that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has behaved as a true European with regard to the threat posed by Russia.
Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas defiantly disregards the US threat to stop aid if Palestine persists in its bid for United Nations membership.
In Brussels, EU institutions – and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in particular – still regard a Brexit-triggered Euroskeptic domino effect as the biggest threat to the Union.
One reason is the continued division of the Korean Peninsula and the threat that a nuclear-armed North Korea poses to its own people and its neighbors.
China should be viewed as an opportunity, not a threat.
This led to real alarm among policymakers whenever a threat to confidence appeared (as when the dot-com bubble burst at the end of the 1990’s).
The dot-com bubble wasn't a threat to the banking system as such, but rather a threat to aggregate demand.
Today, that means preventing the threat of climate change and eradicating nuclear weapons.
These voters are unlikely to turn against the party, thus buffering any existential threat to its dominance at the ballot box and putting a damper on reform efforts.
One threat to our preparedness is our connectedness.
Another threat is more mundane: failing to agree about money.
Building an effective prevention and containment strategy – being bio-prepared – is the best way to reduce the threat of a global contagion.
For starters, the absence of dedicated funding is impeding implementation of long-term prevention strategies in many countries; a new World Bank report finds that only six countries, including the United States, have taken the threat seriously.
There were, for example, those who questioned whether the Cold War was in fact necessary and whether the Soviet Union and Communism constituted a threat.
To be sure, there is no global threat on the scale of the former Soviet Union, but there are dangerous challenges emanating from such countries as Iran and North Korea.
They include the security issue raised by continued fighting in Ukraine, the question of how to coordinate energy policy, the stalled Brexit negotiations, and the threat of a global trade war.
The very life of the global ocean is under threat.
Unless recent trends can be reversed, the growing economic and demographic gulf between India's North and East and its South and West will pose a serious political threat.
Indeed, Putin's soft authoritarianism is now probably the greatest threat to greater democratization in Russia.
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