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But the other signs of disconnection also create a highly unstable condition in which one can never tell how representative the prevailing views are.
Since 2000, China has actively courted Africa’s unstable and dictatorial countries with offers of aid and a refusal to back United Nations sanctions against them.
The eurozone thus risks becoming stuck in an unstable status quo, with banks’ cross-border claims large enough to transmit national shocks to the entire system, but financial integration not deep enough to ensure that capital flows freely throughout the currency area.
As the world’s two leading powers, the US and China must figure out how to work together in such unstable conditions.
Nearly equally worrisome is the nuclear redefinition of state sovereignty because it will not only lead to a large number of small, politically unstable nuclear powers, but will also increase the risk of proliferation into the hands of terrorists.
China’s economy has certainly become more unstable, with major slowdowns in real GDP growth in 2009 and again in 2012.
But, beneath the surface, an unbalanced, unstable, uncoordinated, and unsustainable economy risks losing its capacity for resilience.
Jihadist organizations attempt to exploit discontent among marginalized groups in unstable societies.
Its politics grew fractious, its policies erratic, and its finances increasingly unstable.
Just as our past policy choices helped to generate the SS1 we face today, failure to implement policies aimed at tackling SS2 could create a much more intractable and potentially unstable situation tomorrow.
In that case, North Korea will gradually become more unstable, despite China’s support, as economic collapse undermines its quasi-legitimate leadership.
This is the agony of democracy, and it is why the next year may prove to be the most unstable, and even dangerous, period in decades for the Korean peninsula and the region.
Many people who remember the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and its tumultuous aftermath believe that Russia’s economy today must be impoverished and unstable – and far behind booming China.
In California, one of the world’s most unstable geological regions, only one in six homeowners buys earthquake insurance.
If this problem is not resolved, foreign investors, let alone tourists, will continue to view Georgia as unstable and stay away.
And he continued to bait North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who seems equally unstable.
The result is that a mother with dependent children must patch together an unstable and unreliable network of caregivers in ways that sharply hamper her ability to succeed at her job and climb out of poverty.
Its collapse would trigger a nuclear arms race in the world’s most unstable region.
In fact, correlations among a number of different financial-asset classes have behaved in an atypical and, at times, unstable manner.
As Princeton University’s Jan-Werner Mueller argues in his book Contesting Democracy, combining the two principles, by extending the franchise at the end of the nineteenth century, made for an unstable compound.
But, with Japan’s political system mired in a protracted transition under a dysfunctional two-party regime, recent governments have been unstable and weak, unable to satisfy either side’s demands.
That is hard when debt levels have increased, jobs are unstable, and the middle class is frightened.
When added to the normal shocks that afflict the world economy, this source of destabilizing volatility created the unstable world before 1987 that led many to wonder why somebody like Alan Greenspan – who had previously only spent a couple of years in government – would want the job.
Countries like Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, the Central African Republic, Niger, Rwanda, and Uganda have suffered, as their access to global shipping routes – and thus to world markets – depends on their unstable neighbors.
In the last years of the increasingly unstable Weimar Republic, as democracy was fraying, German governments started to use their opponents’ radicalism in an effort to extract security concessions from the Western powers.
Turkey has a massive current-account deficit, an erratic president, and an unstable geopolitical neighborhood.
In Latin America, democracy has similarly been incomplete, unstable, and often inaccessible to indigenous, African-American, and mixed populations.
In a new, unstable century, the relationship between Europe and America is more important than ever.
Both had been unstable for a long time, ruled by secular Ba’athist dictators who faced popular majorities that adhered to a rival Muslim sect, in addition to a large population of Kurds, who have long dreamed of independence.
In this unstable context, leaders in both Iran and Saudi Arabia seem to believe that continued confrontation will help sustain them in power, not least by reinforcing the notion that more change, especially in the form of increased economic or political openness, would be dangerous.
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