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The balance of powers has become unhinged.

also a handful of countries in between: the Philippines is a democracy but is backsliding into authoritarianism, Thailand was once a democracy but is now governed by its military, and Myanmar (Burma) recently…

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“The Republican party,” he wrote, “must be known as a progressive organization or it is sunk. I believe that so emphatically that I think that far from appeasing or reasoning with the dyed-in-the-wool reactionary fringe, we should completely ignore it and when necessary, repudiate it.”

“tough decisions”: to unify the country’s exchange rate, release the payment of dividends abroad, settle the country’s disputes with foreign bondholders.

For all these reasons, South Asia has been and remains an uneasy and uncertain part of the world. The region’s two most powerful countries are locked in a cold and sometimes hot conflict against the backdrop of their respective nuclear arsenals, a contested border, and Pakistani support for terrorism against India. India is a democracy with a relat

Le discours de Hayek sur les droits négatifs et le pouvoir de dire non peut donner la fausse impression d’un État passif ou inactif dans le cadre de son ordre mondial normatif. Mais la création et la préservation d’un tel système nécessitent un engagement volontariste. Hayek lui-même affirme explicitement que le pouvoir international doit être doté

Terrorism could not defeat Israel, only stain the Palestinians’ reputation and divert global attention from settlements. But a policy designed to isolate, delegitimize, and sanction Israel could bring about its downfall. Lawfare, rather than warfare, became Abbas’s weapon of choice.

Countries will also need to work together to address problems of globalization, including but not just climate change, trade, and proliferation. These will require not resurrecting the old order but building a new one. Efforts to limit, adapt to, and possibly offset climate change need to be more ambitious. The WTO must be amended to address the so