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But the weaknesses of the current governance regime, epitomized by rampant illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing, threaten to undermine the global security and sustainability to which well managed oceans can contribute.
Ah yes, in a world in which ten million children die every year from avoidable, poverty-related causes, and greenhouse-gas emissions threaten to create hundreds of millions of climate refugees, we should be visiting Paris boutiques and feeling the clothes.
And as the conflict in Libya intensifies, these flows threaten to increase.
The example posed by the Baltic nations does not threaten the Kremlin much, because they are perceived as foreign to the Russian psyche.
For them, the lawless Bedouin, the Sinai jihadis, and Hamas and other groups in Gaza threaten Egypt’s national security.
Moreover, Russia is today far too weak to threaten them, as the Russian army's disastrous misadventure in Chechnya demonstrates.
Russia's democrats, who have an enormous stake in a peaceful future, are adamant that extending alliance membership to Central Europe will isolate their country from Europe, strengthen Russian political forces that favor authoritarian rule at home and neoimperial policies abroad, and, by appearing to threaten Russia, provide a rallying point for reconstructing Russian military power.
Presidential systems therefore risk lengthy stand-offs that threaten democracy--as in Venezuela today.
As a result, a small group of pro-Israeli congressmen has been free to threaten and pressure those countries likely to vote for the recognition of the Palestinian state.
Brinkmanship and broken agreements threaten to turn the referendum’s technical and political difficulties into yet another disaster for the country.
But such capital inflows threaten exchange-rate overvaluation, rising current-account deficits, and asset-price bubbles, all of which have in the past led to crises in these economies.
But it is also essential, because China’s new leadership seems determined to come to grips with a vast array of internal imbalances that threaten the environment, promote destabilizing income inequality, and exacerbate regional disparities.
In parts of South Asia, violent conflict and the power of vested interests threaten the rule of law.
Just as Britain’s referendum proved uncannily predictive of Trump’s win, Trump looks like a leading indicator of populist upheavals in Europe, which could trigger another euro crisis and threaten the breakup of the European Union.
One country’s failures can threaten the entire European economy, and can call into question the fruits of 60 years of integration.
More broadly, all countries responsible for the degradation and destruction of the South China Sea’s shallow-water ecosystems must halt activities that threaten the region’s biodiversity and economic productivity.
But entitlements for the elderly, Social Security and Medicare, threaten severe fiscal imbalances later in the next century.
The government could, for example, double welfare payments to households whose male heads stay home, threaten to revoke land reform rights after years of absence in rural communities, and establish choke points on highways at the Tehuantepec Isthmus.
And yet the UK’s impending withdrawal from the European Union could threaten this success.
The Irish Think Again About the Lisbon TreatyMAYNOOTH, IRELAND – For months, the European Union has been battered by economic storms that now seriously threaten a protracted Europe-wide recession.
But any reforms they might attempt would necessarily threaten powerful entrenched interests, and thus destabilize the existing balance of power.
But the election result in Athens could fuel panic in financial markets, causing a crisis that would threaten to spill over into Italy, the eurozone’s third-largest economy, and, with some delay, France, the second largest.
In other words, the US government was designed to be inefficient, in order to ensure that it could not easily threaten the liberty of its citizens.
These rules – established in Russia by Nikita Khrushchev after Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953, and in China by Deng Xiaoping, following Mao Zedong’s death in 1976 – were designed to take the murderousness out of top-level governance by guaranteeing that a leader would not threaten the life and safety of either his predecessors or his colleagues.
As the big economic and political winner of the eurozone, Germany, in particular, cannot let a serious crisis of confidence threaten the European project, because nearly two-thirds of its exports go to the EU.
The current dam-building plans threaten the Salween River’s Grand Canyon – a UNESCO World Heritage site – and the pristine, environmentally sensitive areas through which the Brahmaputra and the Mekong flow.
In a new book, Confront and Conceal, David Sanger describes what he calls an “Obama Doctrine” (though he faults the president for not communicating it more clearly): a lighter military footprint, combined with a willingness to use force unilaterally when American security interests are directly involved; reliance on coalitions to deal with global problems that do not directly threaten US security; and “a rebalancing away from the Middle East quagmires toward the continent of greatest promise in the future – Asia.”
Large firms are relatively risk-averse not only because they are bureaucracies, with layers of management required to sign off on any innovation, but also because they are reluctant to back innovations that threaten to render obsolete the products or services that currently account for their profits.
Without these purchases, the US might face a rise in domestic interest rates that could threaten both its economic recovery and the global economy.
But trade in illegal narcotics did not seriously threaten Mexico’s stability or provoke conflict with the United States until the mid-1980’s, when Colombian cocaine began to flood across Mexico to the US.
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