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Moreover, only 29% of people across 28 countries now trust government leaders, while three-quarters of those surveyed say they trust reformers who would upend the status quo.
Netanyahu threatens to upend Obama’s carefully constructed international consensus concerning sanctions and containment of Iran – a consensus that averts regional mayhem.
For starters, he could embolden Taiwan to be more aggressive in trying to upend the status quo.
Had he become the Democratic Party’s nominee for president (rather than Hilary Clinton), and had he assumed the US presidency, his promise to upend the American socioeconomic order and implant a Scandinavian-style social democracy might have enraged large swaths of the electorate.
Rapidly changing commodity prices can upend the geopolitical landscape as well, sparking political instability – or worse.
But it was the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump as US president that really reflected the move to upend the long-established balance among globalization, the nation-state, and democracy.
But Turkish policymakers are keenly aware that the agreement may upend the Middle East’s fragile balance of power.
Likewise, as China has stepped up efforts to upend the regional status quo – both territorial and riparian – the US has dithered, doing little to reassure its jittery Asian allies.
Given this, even the economic powerhouses that are not US allies do not want to upend the existing world order, but rather to gain more space within it, such as through increased authority in international institutions.
The Cognitive Limits of Lifelong LearningMILAN – As new technologies continue to upend industries and take over tasks once performed by humans, workers worldwide fear for their futures.
Though China is not attempting to upend the global order, it is now undergoing a profound – and destabilizing – transformation.
Yet she has proposed a plan, recently approved by the Chilean Congress, that will upend the system, allowing the Instituto Nacional and two dozen other highly competitive public schools across Chile to select only 30% of their students through entrance exams, with the rest chosen by lottery.
From its growing repression of political dissidents and ethnic minorities to its efforts to upend the territorial status quo in Asia, China constantly tests how far it can go.
By allowing any individual to make transactions through the central bank, CBDCs would upend this arrangement, alleviating the need for cash, traditional bank accounts, and even digital payment services.
Perhaps the greatest film of this type, The Manchurian Candidate, concerns a communist plot to use the brainwashed son of a leading right-wing family to upend the American political system.
Because Iran views the political order in the Arab world as serving its enemies’ interests, it has continuously sought to upend it, promoting terrorist groups and deploying proxies in order to establish and expand its influence in the region.
And third, the rise of digitization and artificial intelligence now threatens to upend global technological hierarchies.
This trend threatens to upend hard-won agreement on definitions of human rights.
The 2019 Indian election will be a case study in how to upend the conventional assumption of electoral politics that an incumbent is judged on his record of performance against his own promises.
The implication is clear: While the world is rightly focused on battling the current pandemic, firms and governments must also recognize and plan for other risks, particularly climate change, which, like a pandemic, could upend the global economy if not managed properly.
In Lebanon, the political system protesters are attempting to upend is fundamentally sectarian – one that is now hostage to Hezbollah’s and Iran’s regional designs.
It is between human civilization and a virus that threatens to upend it.
I am not especially worried that the Trump-Xi trade dispute will upend the world’s economic prospects in the immediate future.
Europeans are understandably anxious about great-power competition, new security threats, and a technological revolution that threatens to upend entire economic systems and societies.
Despite these similarities, the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to stand out in a crucial way: it is unlikely to upend the established order.
Study after study predicts that automation will upend entire industries and leave millions unemployed.
Idai was not the first cyclone to upend the lives of farmers in southern Africa, and it won’t be the last.
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