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A split vote thus undermines European interests, delivering an unequivocal blow to European foreign policy in a challenging geopolitical environment.
Making matters worse, the Chinese authorities are tightening credit and regulating the money supply through sterilization and high reserve requirements for bank deposits – an approach that undermines real economic growth considerably.
If America’s policies are difficult to predict, and if Trump’s behavior undermines the reliability of the US government, the international order will be vulnerable to immense turmoil.
For the political boycott implemented by the 14 against Austria undermines the Treaty on European Union, and raises serious doubts about the functioning of EU-institutions.
But even desirable changes come with transition costs, and those costs will grow as the new administration dangerously undermines core market-economy principles.
The exploitation of Western Sahara’s natural resources is not only illegal; it also undermines the prospects for a successful political process.
The problem, of course, lies in sluggish economic growth, which undermines wage growth, weakens tax revenues, and makes it impossible for governments to pay down their debts.
Lack of labor standards in one part of the world undermines the social welfare of workers in other parts of the world.
The consequences of rapid aging are manifold: a shrinking workforce and a narrower pool for entrepreneurship, which undermines prospects for economic growth; a looming threat to the sustainability of “pay-as you go” public pensions systems; and increased health-care and other costs associated with an elderly population.
The trade in inferior drugs also undermines fragile public-health systems in poor countries.
It leads to paper-tiger sovereignty, undermines the credibility of democratic governments and the multilateral system, and empowers smugglers and authoritarian populists.
Motherhood increases the likelihood of part-time work, which undermines long-term earnings and prospects for career advancement.
But perhaps the biggest challenge for Mexico is perceived state corruption, which directly undermines the government’s effectiveness.
And America’s unwillingness to take meaningful steps to reduce its ballooning fiscal deficit further undermines the effectiveness of its foreign policy.
Though market intervention may limit the scope of losses in the short term, it undermines markets’ ability to self-correct, not to mention the credibility of the Chinese authorities as neutral regulators.
Europe’s opportunism undermines the future effectiveness of these two key institutions at a time when they will be needed not only to stabilize Greece, but also to prevent liquidity problems from turning into solvency crises in other European countries and elsewhere, as well as to limit global contagion.
But markets are more pragmatic: if, as is almost surely the case, austerity weakens economic growth, and thus undermines the capacity to service debt, interest rates will not fall.
Excessive program trading is a poor use of resources, but it rarely undermines effective management for a simple reason: the investors who trade only trade; they do not participate in corporate governance, and sometimes they do not even vote for directors.
As for Palestine, its fragmented polity undermines any possibility of effective negotiation.
This undermines the credibility of demand-reduction efforts; if the trade is likely to be legalized one day, any stigma associated with ivory consumption will be eroded.
This aspect of China’s foreign policy is puzzling, not only because it undermines relations with India, but also in view of Chinese fears of Islamist radicalism among the Xinjiang’s Uighurs.
But foreign aid also undermines the development of local state capacity.
A breakdown of the test ban undermines the NPT, to whose renewal the world's nuclear have-not nations agreed in 1985 on condition that the test ban would be ratified.
Of course, it is not easy to support a military coup against a democratically elected president (even one who, like Morsi, undermines the democratic values and institutions that brought him to power).
This divide-and-conquer strategy undermines the multilateral trade system, which is based on the principle of non-discrimination.
While it is no secret that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government had its problems with Rajan, few believed that the government would take a step that so clearly undermines India’s interests.
The cult of the “Greenspan put” stemmed from the previous Fed chairman’s avowed belief that the Fed should not try to resist a sharply rising stock market, except to the extent that such a market undermines the long-term stability of prices for ordinary goods.
That dispute, in turn, exposes the European Union’s fragmented energy-supply system and lack of political cohesion, which undermines its ability to forge a long-term energy strategy.
Trump’s victory also undermines Europe’s security.
More important, Japan understands that business as usual with an aggressive Russia that undermines the international order could embolden others closer to home to embrace Putin’s lawless tactics.
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