Unwillingness
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The second danger is that source countries’
unwillingness
to take spillovers into account causes unintended collateral damage in recipient countries, prompting self-interested action on their part.
But Syrian oppositionists must recognize that the lack of decisive international action is not only the result of Russia and China vetoing any meaningful action in the Security Council, or NATO countries’
unwillingness
to enter into another war in the region.
Before one laments Americans’
unwillingness
to crack a history book on an international subject, it is enlightening to watch China in action, systematically complicating its vitally important relationships in the region over…what?
The root cause of Germany’s sluggish economic performance in recent years is the continuing
unwillingness
of its households and enterprises to consume and invest.
I’ve been in this business for 67 years now, and I’ve been well served by my
unwillingness
to say anything about short-term market behavior with confidence.
The ECB is right to establish its inflation-fighting credentials; it is right to be unambiguous in educating labor markets to its total
unwillingness
to accommodate the old ways.
America's
unwillingness
to provide small sums to wage peace contrasts sharply with the huge amounts Congress quickly granted to wage war.
What Congress cannot do is pretend that wrong-footed trade policy is the answer to its inability or
unwillingness
to refocus its domestic policy agenda.
A victory by Obama would reinforce America’s
unwillingness
to attack Iran and renewed efforts to rein in Israel.
The leadership vacuum caused by America’s
unwillingness
to cooperate and Britain’s sudden inability to lead resulted in the failure of the London Conference of 1933, which is often seen as opening the way to the Great Depression and the catastrophe of World War II.
An
unwillingness
to lend and expensive loans in foreign currencies are a real burden to eastern balance sheets.
Witness Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent trip to South Korea, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s
unwillingness
to impose effective sanctions on Russia for its intervention in Ukraine, and the business-only focus of her just-concluded visit to China.
Her ties to Brazil’s huge evangelical churches, and her
unwillingness
to break with them on issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and drug policy, alienate many voters.
Xi expressed his
unwillingness
to tolerate any unruly behavior – particularly concerning nuclear weapons – by the country’s unpredictable rulers.
Given the lack of a new force for order in the region in the foreseeable future, and the old one’s
unwillingness
to act, the danger of long-lasting violent confrontation is growing.
The reasons are connected to Premier Ivica Racan's
unwillingness
to tackle the centers of power left behind by the regime of the late President Franjo Tudjman, whose nationalist-minded party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), was voted out of office in January 2001 following Tudjman's death in December 1999.
While Rousseff’s government is largely responsible for the recent bout of cyclical weakness and social upheaval, Brazil’s problems are rooted in a broader
unwillingness
to shake off the yoke of policies adopted during more than two decades of military rule.
Wariness of another Middle East war has also underpinned Obama’s
unwillingness
to go beyond a one-time punitive strike on Syria – with some in Congress opposed to even that.
They result either from policy elites’ inability to convince domestic constituencies of the benefits of the alternative, or from their
unwillingness
to make adjustments to ensure that everyone does indeed benefit.
Even if massive spillovers are clearly recognized, it is difficult to see how this exercise would solve the fundamental problem behind the currency war: the major players’ apparent
unwillingness
to reconcile vastly different national interests.
The inability or
unwillingness
of either side to put itself in the other’s shoes, a precondition for any compromise, kept both locked in a spiraling arms race.
Likewise, the
unwillingness
of major developing countries such as China and India to sign on to a plan also seems to be ending, though considerable work remains to craft a global agreement to which both rich and poor countries can agree.
And the barriers to reform are political:
unwillingness
to face SOE job losses, particularly in China’s northern rust belt, and radical decentralization of economic decision-making to competing city and provincial governments.
So today’s fundamental policy void – yet to be addressed – lies in national governments’
unwillingness
to contemplate global leadership.
It is too late to debate whether the culprit was the
unwillingness
of the European public to embark on the path toward political union or the timidity of its national politicians to exercise leadership.
If we add up these three factors – the enormous economic challenge of reducing greenhouse gases, the complexity of climate science, and deliberate campaigns to confuse the public and discredit the science – we arrive at the fourth and over-arching problem: US politicians’
unwillingness
or inability to formulate a sensible climate-change policy.
Shell, the largest foreign operator in the Niger Delta, has been criticized repeatedly for its egregious practices and its
unwillingness
to be held to account.
For many politicians, particularly in America, there is an
unwillingness
to upset Turkey without strong justification, given its record as a loyal NATO ally and putative EU candidate country.
Worse, given their frequent
unwillingness
to accommodate one another’s interests, impasses – even clashes – become likely.
But, given his
unwillingness
to seek support for his regime and his policies from the ballot box, Musharraf succeeded in undermining both.
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