Willingness
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Russia’s
willingness
to create a war zone 25 miles from the Black Sea city of Sochi, where it is to host the Winter Games in 2014, hardly demonstrates its commitment to Olympic ideals.
But his
willingness
to use his presidential powers as a blatantly partisan political weapon breaks ground that no American should want him to tread.
Obama’s new National Security Strategy shows a political
willingness
to back an international order able to tackle these challenges.
In February, Moon said: “The United States needs to lower its bar for dialogue and the North, too, must show its
willingness
to denuclearize” as critical first steps.
Participation in the Winter Olympics and
willingness
to sit down with Trump have already given the North a propaganda boost, and a summit with the US president will confer legitimacy on Kim.
Many industry leaders are finally recognizing the need to change, and expressing a
willingness
to do so.
And both Xi and Li have indicated the government’s
willingness
to tolerate slower GDP growth in the short term for the sake of building a stronger, more sustainable economy.
Europeans also must admit that effective diplomacy requires not only dialogue and incentives, but credibility – a
willingness
to use sanctions and military force, if need be.
The United Nations and other organizations bear witness to countries’ commitment to principles of justice and solidarity, and to their
willingness
to set aside their narrow agendas to serve higher causes.
All of this implies that economic policymakers require an enormous dose of humility, openness to various alternatives (including the possibility that they might be wrong), and a
willingness
to experiment.
But Rabin was assassinated by a fanatic Jewish nationalist because of his
willingness
to make this compromise.
It has been festering for some time, owing to the North Korean regime’s
willingness
to pay any price to become a nuclear power, which it sees as a way to ensure its own safety.
Thus, King believed that, “one who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, […] and with a
willingness
to accept the penalty.”
But the most important – and the most worrying – qualities they share is an ability to substitute salesmanship for substance, a
willingness
to tell bald-faced lies in pursuit of publicity and advantage, and an eagerness to intimidate critics into silence.
This pressure at various times took the form of US, British, and French nuclear programs;NATO’s
willingness
to counter Warsaw Pact deployments of both conventional military and tactical nuclear forces; the decision to defend South Korea against the North’s aggression; the arming of the mujahedeen in Afghanistan to bleed Soviet occupation forces; and the decision to build a costly missile-defense system aimed both at negating the Soviet Union’s principal military investment and bankrupting its government.
Yet another perspective stresses that Western
willingness
to engage the Soviet Union as much as confront it played a major role in how history turned out.
Western
willingness
to deny the Soviets success was an essential component of strategy.
What is required is a policy on the part of the global community that mixes military strength with a
willingness
to negotiate and interact, a policy of collective strength and collective flexibility.
But such breakthroughs require at least four ingredients: a correct shared understanding of the problem, agreement on an effective way forward,
willingness
to pool more sovereignty, and political leaders able to drive change forward.
Even healthy economies like South Korea are keen to weaken their currencies, leaving the US alone in its
willingness
to tolerate significant currency appreciation.
This
willingness
to seek consensus on what should be a broadly acceptable compromise is usually cited as a strength of American democracy (though, as the recent government shutdown demonstrated, compromise is becoming increasingly elusive).
Although US congressional investigators found no evidence of kickbacks in the contracts, they did find instances of dishonesty and negligence that – at the very least – point to the US government’s
willingness
to overlook questionable practices.
(Not that this will much help his evident
willingness
to be drafted as the next UN Secretary-General: in that role the major powers have always preferred bland secretaries to creative generals.)
Pluralism implies a readiness to listen to many voices – whether we agree with them or not – and a
willingness
to embrace a rich diversity of cultures.
True, German growth owes much to the country’s
willingness
a decade ago to engage in painful economic reforms, especially of labor-market rules.
Without the continued
willingness
of the United States to tie its security to that of Western Europe, there will be no Nato - that goes without saying.
Creditworthiness is generally understood to depend on two things:
willingness
to pay and ability to pay.
A default is a concrete demonstration of the limits of a state’s
willingness
to pay, at least in the short term.
But it would also demonstrate to old and potential new creditors alike not only a capacity, but also a willingness, to make payments, thereby creating incentives for external actors to support economic recovery.
Boom-bust processes usually revolve around credit, and always involve a bias or misconception – usually a failure to recognize a reflexive, circular connection between the
willingness
to lend and the value of the collateral.
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