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Bush’s Dying Days in GazaPARIS – During a visit to the Middle East, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned that enemies of the United States should not use the power vacuum there to try to alter the status quo or to undermine the new American president’s objectives.
In the days before Obama takes office, while a power vacuum persists in the US, the European Union has a unique role to play in international initiatives to end the violence and the unfolding humanitarian crisis.
The nationalist regimes thus gradually lost domestic popular legitimacy, creating a vacuum that non-state actors have now largely filled.
But were it, despite its military might, to fail, it would create a power vacuum and destabilize the region.
Moreover, there is an acute risk that the power vacuum created in Iraq will fuse the Israeli-Arab conflict, Iraq, and Afghanistan into one regional mega-crisis.
The greatest danger stems from Iran, the clear beneficiary of the Iraqi power vacuum.
With the US economy yet to recover fully from the global economic crisis, and American politics increasingly dysfunctional, there is a global power vacuum that China, with shrewd diplomacy and economic might, hopes to fill – beginning in Asia.
This credibility deficit has created a vacuum for other parties to fill.
Hungary and Poland are the leading edge of a far-right agenda that has taken hold throughout Europe, pursued by parties that are exploiting the political vacuum created by the EU’s failure to address the financial and refugee crises.
On the political front, a power vacuum must be avoided.
Others have filled this vacuum.
Neoliberalism filled the vacuum, creating vast wealth for some people, but at the expense of the ideal of equality that had emerged from World War II.
The good news is that the intellectual vacuum on the left is being filled, and there is no longer any reason to believe in the tyranny of “no alternatives.”
The latest attacks are emerging from the political vacuum left by fallen dictators in the Middle East and North Africa.
Indeed, leaders in the middle frequently find themselves in a policy vacuum, with few clear directives from the top.
This left an ideological vacuum, swiftly filled in the 1980’s by greed, cynicism, and corruption.
Still, the push for stronger global governance in recent years has not happened in a vacuum.
Indeed, the longer it takes to put a strategic communications framework into place, the more the vacuum will be filled by the enemy.
But neither the Greek government nor its private creditors acted in a vacuum.
With the traditional institutions of rule thoroughly discredited by the war, the vacuum of legitimacy would be filled by powerful demagogues and populist dictatorships: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst/are full of passionate intensity.”
Given the failures of German leadership in Europe and the political vacuum elsewhere in the EU, Italy’s decision to raise its profile is surely right.
Moreover, societies lose their cohesion under such regimes; they begin to lack a shared set of values, for they become relegated to living in “a belief vacuum.”
Hong Kong’s leadership vacuum has only widened the city’s political, economic, and generational fault lines.
The next power vacuum in the Tibetan hierarchy could seal the fate of the Dalai Lama lineage and propel Tibet toward a violent future, with consequences that extend far beyond that vast plateau.
With no pan-Asian security architecture expected to emerge in the near future, the West’s departure from the region is generating a security vacuum.
Political assassinations and polarization in Tunisia, civil unrest and a military takeover in Egypt, terrorist attacks in Yemen, sectarian strife and an institutional vacuum in Libya, and civil war in Syria have contributed to a sharp fall in investment, tourism, exports, and GDP growth, aggravating macroeconomic imbalances.
In today’s world, however, no great power can afford to operate in a vacuum.
The colonial powers that filled the vacuum left by the declining empire had their own militaries, and therefore did not need local forces to govern.
This created a vacuum, allowing delusion and deception to blot out the benefits of European cooperation, and encouraging the view that the British had become the slaves of Brussels.
Some believe that this vacuum is the primary difficulty with the international debt system.
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