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By intensifying doubts about European integration, Brexit would further reduce the
willingness
of EU members to cooperate, resulting in the deterioration of both their security and their remaining international influence.
It was not just Europe that benefited from China’s
willingness
to take on the mantle of “lender of last resort.”
Or, to put the point more positively, it requires a
willingness
to coordinate policies more effectively.
As a result, the
willingness
of WTO members to invoke the Dispute Settlement Mechanism, the pride of the WTO – and, indeed, of international governance – would also be sapped.
He declared in London recently that "the credibility of the UN depends on a
willingness
to keep its word and to act when action is required."
Moreover, a counter-cyclical policy would signal to the world these countries’
willingness
to take on global responsibilities.
They will also signal
willingness
to help the West financially.
Australia’s
willingness
to send troops into Timor-Leste in 1999, again under a UN mandate, may have not only saved that country, but helped transform Indonesia as well.
America’s ability to use oil sanctions to force Iran to negotiate an end to its nuclear-weapons program depended not only on Saudi
willingness
to make up Iran’s exports of a million barrels per day, but also on the general expectations that the shale revolution created.
The fawning article was devoted to one Donald Trump, in whom the author found a thousand virtues because of his supposed hostility to “the system,” the likelihood that he would abandon the West’s “liberal orientation,” and his
willingness
to attack “media power,” “economic globalization,” and “Wall Street’s arrogance” (and that’s not the half of it).
The third factor is the
willingness
of outside groups – both states and non-state groups – to prolong Iraq’s misery by supporting the insurgency, whether overtly or by inaction.
So, what accounts for the new seeming
willingness
of Iran’s leaders to reach an agreement?
As its economic and geopolitical influence has waned, so has its
willingness
to consider renouncing its nuclear status.
More obviously than anything preceding it, the single currency was a touchstone of
willingness
to proceed toward political union.
So far, President Donald Trump’s administration has shown no
willingness
to withdraw US support from the PYD.
A moment may come when foreign investors do not believe that their sterling or dollar assets are protected against inflation, and at that point their
willingness
to hold low-yield sterling and dollar assets will end.
And more austerity is a vital, if less well remarked on, condition of the European Central Bank’s declared
willingness
to buy unlimited quantities of troubled countries’ short-term government debt.
The
willingness
to sacrifice some part of their private interest to support the public interest damages the souls and portfolios of the 1%.
In the eurozone, in addition to the perceived nexus between banks and governments, the governing elite’s
willingness
to embrace European integration, and taxpayer-financed cross-border financial support, without broad public consultation has generated a similar sentiment.
It would help if Pakistan’s government – facing home-grown terrorists even as it exports terror to its neighbors – showed a little more
willingness
to join the quest for peace.
The resistance to offshoring is therefore much stronger than elsewhere, as is a
willingness
to restrain wage costs.
In a new book, Confront and Conceal, David Sanger describes what he calls an “Obama Doctrine” (though he faults the president for not communicating it more clearly): a lighter military footprint, combined with a
willingness
to use force unilaterally when American security interests are directly involved; reliance on coalitions to deal with global problems that do not directly threaten US security; and “a rebalancing away from the Middle East quagmires toward the continent of greatest promise in the future – Asia.”
But their
willingness
to engage could wane, particularly if sanctions exact a high financial price or military action causes a large number of casualties.
And yet a
willingness
to take risks is pivotal to innovation and entrepreneurship.
When democracy is discredited by its own practitioners, there is much greater public
willingness
to embrace a seemingly efficient alternative.
They fear not only domestic political backlash, but also the prospect that their adversary, or adversaries, will interpret a
willingness
to compromise as a sign of weakness, and thus become even more demanding.
They suspect that some of their counterparts are weak and vulnerable, and have little confidence in the
willingness
of national bank supervisors to reveal the truth and demand remediation.
It can also provide an opportunity for Europeans to demonstrate again to the US their
willingness
to invest in self-defense capabilities, and to play an active role in a process that, until now, has been conducted largely over their heads, by the US and Russia.
This reduces the
willingness
of institutional investors to invest in counteracting insider lobbying.
He and Premier Wen Jiabao – often called a latter-day Zhou Enlai for his administrative abilities and
willingness
to play second fiddle – rolled out one impressive slogan after another: “Put people first,” “Run the country according to law,” “Render the media closer to the people,” and “Make government transparent.”
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