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Even if the threat of terrorism will always exist, resilience must not become resignation.
But China’s growing assertiveness, particularly in the South China Sea, has fueled the perception that it is more of a threat than a leader.
Consider, for example, how many women confessed under torture that they were witches, or how the mere threat of torture induced Galileo Galilei to deny the proposition that the earth travels around the sun.
Or we could work to eliminate the threat of exposure of private behavior.
It seems wiser to heed modern-day Promethean thinkers such as the late Stephen Hawking, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and the 115 other tech leaders who in 2017 spoke out about the threat of weaponized AI and robotics.
Fragmentation – meaning the end of the Internet – is a real threat.
The day before, a bomb threat had been left at the building, warning of what was about to happen.
The people do want democracy, but they will be disdainful of Western critics whom they will see as utterly naive in the face of the threat to democracy that the Muslim Brotherhood posed.
Supporters of such legislation – including advocates in the United States of a recently proposed Arizona law that would have permitted business owners to refuse service to gays on religious grounds – argue that it reflects an organic popular backlash against a threat to “traditional” values.
The first sees American culture solely as a threat, with thousands of years of European history about to be swept away by a flood of crass images, cheap soundbites and mental junk food.
But how big a threat does Russia actually pose to the West?
In just the last few weeks, German Chancellor Angela Merkel cautioned that the current international order is under threat.
So long as populism lingers as a political threat, the risk of reactionary protectionist trade policies and higher capital controls will remain heightened, and this could derail economic growth.
Some eurozone policymakers seem to be confident that a Greek exit from the euro, hard or soft, will no longer pose a threat to the other periphery countries.
The common threat of international terrorism must be faced jointly.
As a result, Turkey no longer considers a federalized Iraq a threat to its security, as long as each federal unit maintains a measure of ethnic diversity.
Naturally, the greater the terrorist threat on the border, the more restrictive the policy should be.
But American public opinion, worried about the threat of terrorism, seems set against the takeover.
The key factor is that, for the first time since Putin came to power, the Kremlin perceives a genuine threat.
For example, while Western representatives generally view Iran as an emerging threat, many Russians still insist that the Iranian regime remains a proliferation challenge that can be managed through non-BMD means such as diplomacy and limited international sanctions.
You always have this conflict between the competitive process on one side and the desire to eliminate this competitive threat.
Meanwhile, the country’s monetary authorities have much more leeway to boost the economy by lowering interest rates at a time when the threat of inflation is diminishing.
It may not yet be ready to embark on a full-fledged policy of “containment,” but in the wake of the dismemberment of Georgia – and with Russia claiming a zone of “privileged influence” throughout the former Soviet world – China clearly views Russia as an emerging strategic threat.
As the threat of climate change grows increasingly menacing, influential institutions like the WHC must take a stand against the toxic and insidious legacy of dependence on coal and other fossil fuels.
Next month’s presidential election, for example, is but a charade intended to restore international legitimacy and support; challengers have been allowed to run, but none is considered a threat to Maduro.
Maduro’s rigid adherence to Chavismo is a significant threat to regional stability.
In the West, extolling the virtues of democracy to others has long resembled proselytization of a secular religion, complete with the threat of fire and brimstone for those who do not embrace the democratic creed.
But there is a key difference: whereas the economic stagnation and world-wide inflation of the 1970’s originated in the supply cartel of hydrocarbons producers, now it is the Asian latecomers in the process of industrialization that are driving growth, and inflation is a constant threat that never materializes.
Alongside Hayek, his colleague at the University of Chicago, Friedman launched a more general intellectual assault on Keynesianism, arguing that any government permitted to regulate the economy in the name of equality posed a threat to individual liberty.
But an important difference between twenty-first-century East Asia and twentieth-century Europe creates a chance to avoid all four: China is in a position to exert powerful pressure on the source of the nuclear threat.
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