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Yet, far from addressing this weakness, the world is reviving an outdated model of national sovereignty that makes crises of various kinds more likely.

While active government support remains crucial to advancing green investment at scale, widespread fiscal weakness is pulling in the opposite direction.

Initially viewed as a sign of weakness, Cameron’s move has turned out to be a masterstroke.

In any case, they have no intention of sending any signal of weakness to a leader so intent on testing other’s limits.

This ambivalence can largely be explained by Western and Arab concern with the weakness and opacity of the Syrian opposition’s political leadership.

The regime has been effective in exploiting that uncertainty by spreading the fear of an Egyptian scenario, in which the weakness of secular activists leads to a takeover by the Muslim Brothers and jihadis.

If France has replaced Germany as “the sick man of Europe,” it is for political reasons, above all: vision, courage, and strength on the northern side of the Rhine, and vacillation, inertia, and weakness on the southern.

But it is the dollar’s weakness that has boosted US corporate earnings since the crisis erupted, propelling the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 11,000 for the first time since May.

But, while the Fed has been tapering since December, the weakness of the renminbi materialized only in February.

For example, the three rounds of the World Bank’s International Comparison Program that have been conducted so far have each defined the poverty line differently, underscoring the weakness of the current measure.

That was a source of strength during the overthrow of Mubarak’s dictatorship; now it is a source of weakness.

Moreover, the SCAF has carefully weighed the politicians and dissected their relative weakness, limited capacity, notorious opportunism, and general inconsistency.

Both suffered little financial fallout from the currency weakness that followed the Fed’s announcement last May that it would “taper” its purchases of long-term assets.

But the truth is that most Muslims in the West are in a position of weakness, making them easy targets for popular aggression.

And, in this case, decision-makers on both sides face domestic opponents who are only too ready to pounce at the least sign of weakness.

Russia’s tragic decline into what can only be a protracted period of political uncertainty and economic depression already affects the countries towards its West, spreading economic concerns and raising fears that the big neighbor might compensate for internal weakness by external bullying.

That lesson has had to be relearned throughout the ages: the lesson that weakness is provocative, that a refusal to confront gathering dangers can increase, not reduce, future peril, and that victory ultimately comes only to those who are purposeful and steadfast.

The total failure of the Lisbon Agenda, launched in March 2000 to make the EU “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-base economy in the world” demonstrated the weakness of a centralized approach.

But, ironically, this apparent strength is Trump’s fatal weakness.

If, however, evidence starts to emerge of export weakness, China can and should compensate with additional steps to boost domestic demand.

Indeed, the combination of banking uncertainties, slower growth, and the heightened risk of underemployment and casual labor creates the political weakness now visible in the UK, Spain, Italy, and elsewhere.

That alone should be enough to prove that democracy is a strength, not a weakness.

The continent needs productivity-enhancing investment in order to compensate for its shrinking workforce; but its demographic weakness is causing companies to hold back.

The final problem contributing to weakness in global aggregate demand was emerging markets’ massive buildup of foreign-exchange reserves – partly motivated by the mismanagement of the 1997-98 East Asia crisis by the International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury.

The European Union’s internal problems, and its ongoing sovereign-debt crisis, are clearly linked to the weakness of its institutions, and, on Europe’s periphery, it still confronts feckless democracies.

And, at the end of the nuclear security summit in The Hague, US President Barack Obama cited Russia as a regional power whose aggressive policies toward its neighbors displayed weakness.

In this sense, Obama’s declaration that Russia is a regional power acting out of weakness, no less than Russia’s suspension from the G-8, may have hit Putin where he is most vulnerable.

Yet Brazil’s political crisis demonstrates the country’s democratic maturity, and arguably is a sign of strength rather than weakness.

But such a link was seen in the early part of the twentieth century: capitalism, some argued, tends to generate chronic weakness in effective demand due to growing concentration of income, leading to a “savings glut,” because the very rich save a lot.

While there was a business cycle, no perceptible tendency toward chronic demand weakness appeared.

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