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The GPE should be receiving at least $10 billion a year (about four days’ military spending by the NATO countries) to put Africa on a path toward universal secondary education.
The second is ideological: to move Scotland toward a Scandinavian-style social democracy.
But the rise of India and China means that the time-tested posture of Western democracies toward emerging states to “do as we say, not as we do” will become less tenable.
In moments of extreme fear, the pendulum of attitudes swings toward the security end of that spectrum.
In fact, China’s courtship of resource-rich Third World tyrannies and its recent step toward the weaponization of outer space undermines its carefully crafted new image as a paragon of “harmonious” social development.
For starters, faster growth is unlikely to reverse the current trend toward inequality, and a few small, targeted presidential interventions into the actions of specific states or companies are hardly going to change that.
But is revenge a worthy motive for a state’s actions, especially toward its own citizens?
Toward the end of the Soviet era, Russian leaders looked like the rearguard of a lost ideological cause.
Today, by contrast, they can be perceived as the avant-garde of a movement toward isolationism, jingoism, and even hyper-nationalism.
Merkel’s Comeuppance is Europe’s – and the World’s – MisfortuneJOHANNESBURG – One of the most common mistakes European leaders make in interpreting US President Donald Trump’s hostility toward America’s traditional allies, or the alacrity of his administration’s efforts to blow up the international order, is to assume that all of this is unprecedented.
The alternative could be a Le Pen victory, and a further step back toward the 1930s, when too many countries turned their back on international cooperation and collective solutions to shared problems.
Intellectuals, artists, and public figures must highlight the danger of indifference toward groups espousing intolerance and exclusion.
As President-elect Donald Trump moves toward taking office, he seems eager to make plenty of changes – some more positive than others.
Would a tougher position toward Saudi Arabia really be in America’s interest?
For example, it will need to devise an effective policy toward Turkey, a NATO member with strong interests in Syria – interests that, at times, conflict with America’s.
As if that were not enough, the US will also need to rethink its policy toward Egypt, which, until recently, often made important contributions to diplomatic efforts in the region.
Now the time has come to head back toward more familiar policy terrain.
All of this helped to limit the fallout of the financial crisis and push the global economy toward recovery.
First, unit labor costs needed to decline toward productivity levels to restore competitiveness – a painful process without the exchange-rate mechanism.
In fact, there has been substantial post-crisis re-convergence toward German levels.
Rather than starting from the center and making appeals to both sides, congressional Republicans are starting from the right and feinting toward the center.
Qaddafi thus took the first step – intentional or not – toward creating a modern nation-state.
This development forces moderate leaders in these countries to adopt a tougher stance toward China than they otherwise would, in order to preempt attacks from the ultra-right and assuage their generals.
But China should not encourage ASEAN’s demise, because that would drive several now-neutral ASEAN states further toward the US.
Rather than trying to nudge investors toward certain outcomes and explicit numerical targets, Yellen and other central bankers need to communicate more clearly how they think about risks and opportunities in the economy and financial markets, and then let private investors decide the balance of risk and reward for themselves.
Those policies led to imbalances that eroded the economy’s competitiveness and foreign reserves, pushing the country toward a balance-of-payments crisis.
The most obvious implication is that Francis is weary of polarization, and hopes that the dual canonization will help to propel a shift toward a “big tent” Catholicism that appeals to a broader range of people.
Only when the fighting has stopped can Syria make genuine progress toward a political transition.
Syria’s Humanitarian LifelinesNEW YORK – After more than a thousand days of death and misery, two important recent public statements show why policy toward Syria must enter a new phase of intensity and focus.
Understanding these developments could help to generate enough momentum to initiate, after more than seven years of confrontation, genuine inter-Korean cooperation and help guide the peninsula toward a more peaceful and secure future.
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