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It behaved in ways that would have been unthinkable before – for example, its attacks on Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
For example, Colombia was a stronghold for the tobacco corporation Philip Morris International two decades ago, and comprehensive tobacco-control legislation in that country was long unthinkable.
Thinking Smaller in EuropeNEW YORK – To resolve a crisis in which the impossible has become possible, it is necessary to think the unthinkable.
And neo-Nazi groups, such as Golden Dawn in Greece and Jobbik in Hungary, have made gains that were once unthinkable, just 70 years after their ideological forebears brought decimation to the continent.
It is unthinkable that the EU can stand as a respected part of the global order if it proves unable to agree on ways of protecting human rights, not only in its territory, but in areas that may one day be joined to it.
Today, the Kingdom is contemplating what was once unthinkable: cutting Egypt off.
China has been an enormous beneficiary of this system, and its rise would have been unthinkable without the US-led free-trade system and globalization process, access to US markets, and global shipping lanes secured by the US Navy.
Isn’t that politically unthinkable?
With the support of prominent global donors, our schools are achieving outcomes that were previously unthinkable.
The use of force among advanced industrial democracies is virtually unthinkable.
The West may be facing some mysterious and unthinkable “change,” intoned the tabloid.
Once they succeeded in overcoming a painful crisis-management phase, many of these countries accumulated previously unthinkable levels of international reserves as precautionary cushions.
Moreover, a higher inflation target remains unthinkable, and the German government argues that defaults on sovereign debt are illegal within the eurozone.
A victory for the National Front in 2017 or 2022, which is no longer unthinkable, would destroy the European project.
Just seven weeks after the peace speech, the Americans and Soviets signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty, a landmark agreement to slow the Cold War arms race that would have been unthinkable only months earlier.
For decades they have created a zone where war has become unthinkable, where might is not right, where the poorer catch up with the richer.
Phrases like “apartheid state” and “Zionism is racism,” unthinkable in liberal discourse a few years ago, have become routine.
And what was previously unthinkable – both financially and politically – started to become possible, even likely.
In the past, such a combination of countries was almost unthinkable, and these exercises cannot be explained away as simple “one-off” affairs with little resonance.
The collapse of the Saudi state would quickly spill over into neighboring Gulf countries, triggering a regional implosion, with unthinkable humanitarian consequences.
Until very recently, it would have been unthinkable for EU policymakers to contemplate a security framework.
A first-use of nuclear weapons by the US should be unthinkable, and responding to a non-nuclear attack with nuclear weapons violates a central tenet of just war and US military tradition.
The rapid growth in China’s high-tech industries was thrown into sharp relief earlier this month at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, where Chinese firms accounted for 40% of all exhibitors – a figure that would have been unthinkable just five years ago.
This may seem unthinkable to many.
And that is what the economy got in the form of unprecedented fiscal stimulus and unthinkable policy activism on the part of the US Federal Reserve.
As interesting as these contributions will be, I hope that we will also see another genre: analyses of the previously unthinkable outcomes that have become reality – with profound implications for current and future generations – and that our systems of governance have yet to address properly.
Given this harsh reality, it is not surprising that the second previously unthinkable outcome concerns inadequate policy responses – namely, the large and persistent imbalance between the hyperactivity of central banks and the frustrating passivity of other policymakers.
The third previously unthinkable outcome relates to how developing countries have fared.
Although appeasing China’s drive for hegemony in Asia is unthinkable, every realistic effort must be made to avoid militarization of the region’s diplomacy.
Approximately 1,000 Japanese forces serve in and around Iraq.Intellectuals, journalists, and politicians are now saying and writing things about Japan’s role in the world that were unthinkable a decade ago.
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