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In all conflicts, human rights are among the first casualties, and in the Middle East the degradation of human dignity has now undone international conventions agreed over several generations.
The fighting has heightened instability in the region;US and European citizens are streaming into Syria to take up jihad; and there is a growing consensus that the post-World War I Middle East boundaries are coming undone.
But it is a precarious peace, one that could come undone at any moment, owing to a large number of unresolved territorial claims, rising nationalism, and a paucity of bilateral or regional diplomatic arrangements robust enough to prevent or moderate confrontations.
And in Belarus, Europe’s last dictatorship, collective farming was never undone, and a former collective farm director, Aleksandr Lukashenko, runs the country.
Though intended to unite Europe, in the end the euro has divided it; and, in the absence of the political will to create the institutions that would enable a single currency to work, the damage is not being undone.
In other words, nearly 60 years of European integration – the entire European project – could be undone.
It is undone by civic mobilization, sunlight, and vigilant enforcement.
That lapse cannot be undone.
If you had unwound your bet three years ago, you would now be sitting pretty – as long as you had gone into cash, of course – because the period since 2006 has undone most of these gains.
All of our work was undone by our successors in their quest to win the class war by making America’s income distribution more unequal.
If Europeans want to keep the euro, we must forge ahead with political union now; otherwise, like it or not, the euro and European integration will be undone.
Unfortunately, the rest of his errors cannot be so easily undone.
Europe's Solidarity With UkraineMany generations of Poles dreamt of the day when Europe's postwar division would be undone.
As a result of this tandem, badly needed structural reforms have been left undone or were implemented only when it was too late.
The EU has a population of more than 500 million and great wealth; it will not be undone by taking care of a million – or even a few million – asylum-seekers.
But the damage will not be easily undone.
Globalization cannot be undone.
Decades of financial-market deepening would be undone, banks would fail, the poor would suffer disproportionately, and growth would falter.
But the suggestion that we should try to roll back globalization is problematic for a simple reason: globalization can’t be undone.
The alternative – the persistence and deepening of digital divides between communities – will not be easily undone.
Any delay to the treaty, however, will embolden those in Moscow who would rather have the West as an enemy than as a partner – and who thus would like to see the tenuous progress made in recent months to be undone.
This is partly due to higher taxes in Europe, and this cannot be undone: nobody can force someone to work if they consider their take-home pay too low because of a high marginal tax rate.
But Bangladesh has proved him wrong: the country is being undone not by its economy, but by its dysfunctional politics.
Much of what socialism built needed to be undone.
Historical change cannot be undone.
The Brexit referendum cannot be undone, but people can change their minds.
The Bush administration’s habits of falsehood have undone its aggressive proclivities, leaving a gaping vacuum.
The 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms, aimed at controlling banks and other financial institutions that are “too big to fail,” is also at risk of being undone.
Indeed, it is past time for the EU to take the diplomatic lead in fixing what Dayton left undone.
In the US, banking reforms are now being undone; and in the European Union, government debt-to-GDP ratios are well above where they were in 2008.
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