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Does that mean that a
weakened
Europe will fall prey to the rising powers of 2040?
Instead, they boosted the budget deficit and contributed significantly to increasing the US national debt (by around $3 trillion through 2010), which
weakened
the government’s ability to respond to crises, either in terms of national security or financial instability.
But the US federal civil service has steadily been
weakened
over the years, especially since a Republican-controlled Congress implemented deep cuts in the 1990s.
But Primakov's so far cautious smack of firm government,
weakened
by the miserable condition of Russian state finances, might yet fail in tranquilizing today's disillusioned Russian masses.
The judiciary’s already-fragile independence will be further weakened, and the separation of powers will become meaningless.
The “old” theory about inequality was that redistribution via the tax system
weakened
incentives and undermined economic growth.
It would also help revive India’s
weakened
economy by spurring foreign investment, the benefits of which Modi has already seen in Gujarat.
When Egypt complied with IMF conditions and floated its currency on November 1st, the exchange rate
weakened
from 8.5 to 15.5 pounds to the dollar; soon, imported goods will likely cost 40-60% more than they do now.
After the global economic crisis
weakened
external demand, which sustained China’s unprecedented economic growth for three decades, the authorities agreed that internal demand, especially domestic consumption, must become the country’s new growth engine.
That means scaling up efforts to combat illegal logging and pervasive corruption, improving forest governance (as the US-Peru free-trade agreement stipulates), and revoking recent laws that have
weakened
environmental protection.
Among other things, the 2008 global financial crisis and America’s strategic stumbles in the Middle East since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, substantially
weakened
the West’s capacity to maintain the international rules-based order and provide global public goods.
But the Cold War, the Sino-Soviet split, and Western international institutions’ development programs soon disrupted cooperation among global-South countries, and ties between China and Egypt
weakened.
This is precisely what an ever more
weakened
Berlusconi tried to do.
Reform thus strengthened the chaebols’ internal capital market and
weakened
the banks’ role as monitors of corporate behavior.
That explains the neglect of US-China economic relations, a neglect that is now dangerous to the US, given its
weakened
economic condition.
With the US also economically
weakened
and facing a presidential election, America’s leadership ability would be seriously constricted.
And could a
weakened
Europe cope with an oil shock at all?
The resulting polarization has
weakened
the few functioning state institutions that the large Arab countries have managed to build since the mid-nineteenth century.
But, while the Arab world is a huge region with real power and potential, it has been systematically
weakened
in the past half-century – mainly from within.
EU member states reacted strongly when Lukashenka tried to sack the rector of the prestigious European Humanities University, and this, along with other developments,
weakened
his position.
Support for the resolution would have
weakened
Assad’s position, as it would have revealed him as isolated from his traditional allies, Russia and China.
But this ended after 1985, as the so-called "Plaza Accord" - agreed by the central banks of France, Germany, the UK, the US, and Japan -
weakened
the dollar by 30%.
Putin’s position is reinforced by strong public support, as well as by the dramatically
weakened
position of major Western leaders.
The ability and incentive to work cooperatively to solve these problems must be strengthened, not
weakened.
The result is that the many lobbies that oppose increased competition, or fight to protect state aid, have been hugely
weakened.
Across the West, once-universal public spheres have been
weakened
and divided, and once-public social concerns have been “privatized.”
Still, even if weakened, Putin benefits from a changed economy.
So, even if Putin remains weakened, the Kremlin can look forward to getting rid of the notorious "Red Governors" of Bryansk, Volgograd and Voronezh through the normal workings of democracy; that is, if the Kremlin makes certain that votes in these regions are relatively honest.
Turkey, too, has moved toward strongman rule; and progressive forces in Iran have been
weakened.
Democratic institutions may be resilient to populist governance; but, as we are already witnessing in the US, these institutions will soon be tested, and undoubtedly
weakened
before all is said and done.
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