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Even Russia has recently “tilted” toward China, establishing stronger connections on many fronts, including energy and transport.
And if China becomes too aggressive toward its neighbors – for example, by demanding rights to offshore oil or territory in disputed waters – it will generate a serious diplomatic backlash.
And a recent report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Oil Change International, and the World Wide Fund for Nature revealed that from 2007 to 2014, governments channeled more than $73 billion – or over $9 billion per year – of public money toward coal projects.
Democracy, in their view, leads to disorder; freedom of thought causes popular “confusion”; and public criticism of the Party tends toward the breakdown of authority.
To make real progress toward reviving their economies, the individual countries need to depend less on quantitative easing by the ECB and focus squarely on structural reforms and fiscal stimulus.
In Burma, we see another model – a bold attempt after decades of military rule to move in a controlled but purposeful way toward a new, inclusive form of government.
Indeed, the single most difficult issue inhibiting serious movement toward disarmament – certainly in the case of Pakistan versus India, and Russia and China versus the US – are conventional arms imbalances, and ways of addressing them must rise to the top of the policy agenda.
In 2008, two pressure fronts of global capitalism were rushing toward each other across Eurasia.
The political leadership of the Baltic states toughed it out, accepting savage austerity to continue on their path toward euro membership.
And, if some of the film’s larger-than-expected profits are directed toward the slums where the movie was made, the protestors are quite likely to fade away.
But the Fed has shifted over the past two months toward policies aimed at a second-mode crisis – more significant monetary loosening, despite the risks of higher inflation, extra moral hazard, and unjust redistribution.
But, in the 1990s, Russia had made significant progress toward modernization – and not just because it began to adopt Western-style state institutions.
One hopes that when Putin’s reign ends – as it inevitably will, perhaps even soon – Russians will understand that the path toward an open, modern society is never a simple one.
More recent research is piled toward the top of the pyramid, where most public debate takes place.
Arabs seem increasingly willing to accept – and even applaud – the Obama administration’s policy toward the region.
So, no surprise, the energy of Libyan youth ran head-on into Qaddafi’s inclination toward brutality and, more importantly, into his paid mercenaries.
Indeed, the Fed has doubled down on an approach aimed at recreating the madness of an asset- and credit-dependent consumption model – precisely the mistake that pushed the US economy toward the abyss in 2003-2006.
Indeed, Gulf politics is shifting toward a new balance in the wake of the Saudi-UAE rapprochement and the recent attempt to isolate Qatar.
But Saudi Arabia’s attitude toward Qatar may generate some difficulties for its own policy.
For the time being, harsh policies toward the Muslim Brotherhood are likely to be confined to Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Although Qatar’s rulers are concerned about the Kingdom’s growing antipathy toward them, they have shown no indications of submitting to Saudi demands that they change course.
The fifth principle is a more general norm of national security: a country’s policy toward another is defined not just by intentions, but also by capabilities.
Thus, it is not what one country’s political leaders say, but what they are capable of doing, that should guide other countries’ policy toward it.
Common-sense strategies – such as improving coordination among the plethora of ministries and departments that comprise the bureaucracy, and establishing accountable and empowered agencies to deliver results in high-priority areas – could go a long way toward meeting this demand.
The momentum toward a nuclear-weapon-free world driven by US President Barack Obama’s landmark 2009 speech in Prague, having faltered for the last few years, has now gone into sharp reverse.
Far from moving toward disarmament, the intention seems to be to maintain and enhance every component of America’s current land, sea, and airborne nuclear capability.
The NPT, after all, is based on a bargain: states that do not possess nuclear weapons promise not to acquire them, in exchange for a pledge by those that do to move seriously toward eliminating their arsenals.
Despite lack of any visible progress toward ridding the Middle East of weapons of mass destruction, the signs are encouraging that Egypt and others in the region want to keep trying, and will not use the issue of a WMD-free zone to blow up the review conference, as had been feared.
“I’ve just returned,” I respond, gesturing toward Jibril.
In fact, Clinton was deeply moved by Jibril’s testimony, riveted by the horror of the regime’s tanks grinding toward Benghazi at that very moment.
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