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As Patrick Gaspard, the former United States ambassador to South Africa, recently noted, the country has a strong system of checks and balances that, if steered properly, can trump corruption and deliver needed reforms.
After all, as the US extricates itself from its Afghan quagmire, its own national interests will continue to trump all other considerations.
Does the enemy’s civilian suffering trump Israel’s sovereignty?
Does it trump the real, if less bloody, agony and fear of hundreds of thousands Israelis over long years?
Her presumptive candidacy’s trump card is supposed to be her advantage among critically important women voters – the deciding factor for Democrats in national elections.
More generally, Russia must play the oil card, which still gives the country a powerful trump in international relations, especially in light of long-term destabilization of the Middle East.
The final trick, “starve the beast,” typically comes later, if and when the president has enacted his tax cuts and discovers that smoke and mirrors do not trump reality.
But what if the primary surplus – the Greek government’s trump card in its confrontational negotiating strategy – has now disappeared?
In this context, while it is obviously critical that African countries protect their citizens’ individual rights, external views of what constitutes such a right should not trump legitimate sovereign authority.
But many people drew the wrong conclusion from the episode, which they viewed as affirming the idea that competence and experience must always trump ill-conceived ideas about positive discrimination.
Will “managed” democracy and spheres of influence trump the right of countries, large or small, to determine their own future?
Its power to intimidate and punish may trump all its other moves to stay ahead of the discontent.
They also played the Shia card, an effective trump in Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia.
In fact, large, traditional, or legacy media organizations still trump social media as trusted sources.
The threat of force, not neutral enforcement of the law, remains the trump card.
Democracy does nurture some common values, but they are overwhelmingly liberal values - in other words, individual rights trump collective obligations.
The problem is further exacerbated by a political culture in which public officials’ private interests trump genuine leadership.
Yet, for the P5, neither violations of international law nor large-scale human suffering trump Realpolitik or “geopolitical considerations.”
Those who feel that their faith compels them to act in a way destructive of mutual respect must be persuaded that this is a wrong reading of their faith; otherwise, such a faith-based compulsion will always trump secular political arguments.
With this in mind, the North Koreans’ motives in playing the nuclear trump card are clear, and the timing couldn’t have seemed more advantageous for them: force the Americans into making concessions while the situation in Iraq leaves the US with no room for maneuver, and undercut the rising call in Japan for economic sanctions against North Korea over the abduction issue.
In China, power, money, and connections trump the law.
The regime’s behavior no doubt fueled the terrifying rise of the Islamic State as well, providing Assad with a trump card in his bid for international support – and Russia with a fig leaf.
Most economic frameworks are among Asians only, but an American initiative could trump them and ensure that the region remains open and engaged with the US.
Society has always recognized that other values may trump intellectual property.
Senior Chinese officials are appalled at how the United States allows politics to trump financial stability.
First, what happens if politics does not trump economics, and Obama’s policies don’t start to produce a recovery?
Perhaps the sheer degree of uncertainty in pre-war Europe, or the more amorphous nature of the threat, made security concerns trump financial risk.
Making matters more bewildering is the declining potency of Saudi Arabia’s trump card – oil.
America does not hold the trump card in its economic relationship with China.
So far, at least, he has refused to intercede in the discussion of whether federal law should trump state legislation, having said that he has “bigger fish to fry.”
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