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The next time around, trade talks should take up the two most glaring omissions to date:There remains a possibility that trade negotiators will patch together a last-minute deal in Hong Kong and emerge claiming victory.
And if that narrative fuels a populist victory in March, reform of the banking sector will again be postponed, raising the eventual cost still further.
When I predicted Hamas’s victory before the election, Fatah’s campaign manager replied, “Everyone will vote for Abbas and everything will be all right.”
In Palestinian politics, total victory and Israel’s destruction is still preferable to an honest assessment that this goal is unattainable, terrorism must be abandoned, and law and order must be imposed.
We saw that dynamic play out in Algeria in the early 1990’s, with the Islamic Salvation Front’s first-round victory in a parliamentary election (which prompted the cancellation of the second round); with Hamas’s electoral victory in Palestine in 2006; and, most recently, with the Muslim Brotherhood’s democratic rise to power in Egypt.
After having failed to reverse Hamas’s electoral victory by military means, the PLO agreed with its Islamist rivals on a plan for national reconciliation; but this pact remains a dead letter.
One source of hope stems from Abe’s landslide victory in the recent snap general election, which gives him the political capital to reach out to Park with a grand bargain: If Japan expresses remorse more clearly for its militaristic past, South Korea will agree to leave historical grievances out of official policy.
Hamas has launched an intensive media campaign to appropriate the Israeli withdrawal as a victory of its “armed struggle.”
Hamas knows this, and thus is focusing its attention on the Gaza disengagement, seeking to exploit this victory by demanding a share in the post-disengagement order.
Many in the West assumed that liberal capitalism’s victory over totalitarian socialism would necessarily bring an end to wars and sanguinary revolutions.
Not long after the West’s Cold War victory, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the return of national tribalism, even in the heart of “post-historical” Europe, challenged the concept of “the end of history.”
By acquiescing in Russia’s actions in Crimea, Xi is joining Putin in challenging the world order that emerged from America’s Cold War victory.
Now, three years after thwarting Singh’s efforts, the BJP has taken over India’s government, following its resounding electoral victory in May.
The plaintiff alleged that large amounts of funds were channeled to the troika’s favored candidates to contest the 1990 general election, in which Nawaz Sharif’s party won a big victory over Benazir Bhutto’s Peoples’ Party.
The story it presents is of a world beset by real injustices, for which the only solution is violent action that will supposedly lead to the victory of a monolithic Muslim world.
Addressing the sense of injustice, siege, and alienation faced by young Muslims is not a victory for the extremists.
Rather, it is a victory for European liberal values because it demonstrates that every individual and every minority is of equal worth.
No sooner did this strategy pay off with a narrow re-election victory – one that strengthened Republican control of Congress – than the dark realities of Bush’s fiscal recklessness started to be recognized.
Of all of China’s worries about North Korea, the most serious is that regime collapse – probably followed by state failure – could be perceived as a Chinese defeat and a US victory, with Korea reunified as part of the US alliance system.
Putin and the ruling party did not win a majority in Moscow in the 2011 Duma election or the 2012 presidential election, but they seem confident of victory in the city this time.
The electorate’s desire for change and fear of continuing slow growth, which pushed the Republicans to their victory in this week’s mid-term congressional election, will invariably prompt discussion about new policy options designed to raise growth, employment, and incomes.
As we move towards the next century, I think we would be well advised, precisely because of the victory of 1989, to make a very sober, realistic, and philosophically responsible assessment of the problems that we all may together confront.
Trump Cancels, China WinsLONDON – US President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to cancel his planned June 12 summit with Kim Jong-un represents a diplomatic coup for the North Korean leader, and an even bigger victory for China.
This would enable Trump to proclaim victory at home, while raising the European standard of living by freeing Europe’s consumers from the yoke of the EU’s agricultural protectionism.
In his only election speech, on February 23, 2012, Putin, recalling Russia’s victory over Napoleon in 1812, warned against foreign interference in the country’s internal affairs.
The almost timid way in which, after France’s victory over Spain, he expressed his love for his mother touched viewers around the world.
Even as the US rhetorically champions democracy in the Middle East, its first response to Hamas’s victory was to demand that the newly elected government return $50 million in US aid.
Hollande’s victory thus may be a sign that democratic countries have become reluctant to be led by flamboyant or charismatic presidents or prime ministers.
For many, the victory of normalcy over charisma should be cause for celebration.
In hindsight, the 2012 French Presidential election could well be remembered not so much for Hollande’s victory and the triumph of normalcy, but as the decisive step in populist parties’ long march to power.
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