Sentences with phrase «half international systems»

Expect nation - by - nation regulation of cryptocurrency, perhaps a requirement that national cryptocurrencies be decoupled from international systems, and maybe even a government issued cryptocurrency in the longer - term future.

The IMF, or International Monetary Fund, is an intergovernmental agency that works to keep exchange rates and the international system of payments stable.

«Regardless of the extent of development, China will not subvert the current international system, nor will it seek to establish spheres of influence,» Xi said.

So the more they could act, the more it would help the world to preserve the international system and avoid a descent into a trade war,» he added.

The United States has long been a strong supporter of open markets and a rules - based international system.

Beijing seeks to implement its vision of multipolarity largely within the existing international system.

China certainly does subvert the established international system, for instance when it violates international trade norms, but it generally does so for commercial reasons.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moscow and Beijing have transformed their relationship from being Cold War adversaries to become pragmatic partners with a common goal of pushing back at a Western - dominated international system.

However, once an international system for limiting carbon emissions is in place, carbon tariffs will no longer be useful or necessary.

And in his view America's poor are also victims of the unjust international system.

These demands, however, do not challenge the existing international system and its assumptions: they want a greater share in the global economic pie.

Whatever they deride, it will certainly not be to manage it through, for example, a democratic organisation of the international system.»

The current international system has its ideological roots in the Enlightenment and is closely tied to the advocacy of such a system as a way of achieving what Kant called «perpetual peace.»

One influential ambassador noted that there are nations that have a stake in «the international system,» nations that are defiant of that system, and others that can only be called «failed nations.»

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

Many of the religious conflicts we read about in the newspapers have prehistories and antecedents that need to be traced over a period of several decades or longer, and many represent reactions and counterreactions to other movements both in the same society and in the larger international system.

Visser «t Hooft turns the conversation back to the time before 1932: «In those days we believed that the League of Nations was the answer, that through the League it would be possible to create an international system of law, so that war would simply not be necessary any more.

What they rescued was not so much the indebted countries as the banks that had loaned them money and the international system of trade.

While it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, it has marginalized and violated the basic human rights of millions.

For much of the modern period, the international system has assumed the sovereignty of nations within their borders, as if each were an entirely independent individual.

The former member, Fair Trade USA, which resigned from the international system in early 2012 and is now a separate entity.

This international system reaches global and local audiences via three major Networks of Producers in over 30 producer countries in Africa, Asia — Pacific and Latin America — Caribbean, and over 35 Fairtrade market offices in importer countries.

Units Authors are requested to use the International System of Units (Système International d'Unités) for exact measurements of physical quantities and where appropriate elsewhere.

Not just home nation responsibility for the actions of their corporations in other countries, but an international system for when national measures fail.

His efforts to intervene in Angola and Mozambique in the 1970s to help the Marxist guerrilla, in addition to similar efforts undertaken throughout Latin America, make Castro's Cuba a revolutionary actor in the international system.

This kind of adversarial characterization of relations between states, whether framed in national or civilizational terms, misconstrues cultures and civilizations as insulated, isolated, monolithic entities, undervalues historical cultural sharing, and overemphasizes the conflictual nature of the international system.

The same concept applies to sub-systems of the international system.

The German conquest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, however, convinced almost all decision - makers in democratic countries that Germany constituted a risk to the international system.

And it can maintain — indeed it can build — support for the rules - based international system on which the stability of our world continues to rely.

Increasingly, it is evident Realism in its classical form can no longer offer a roadmap for states in the contemporary international system because it can not offer tenable solutions for the long term.

Organizations such as Al Qaeda and its various affiliates are revolutionary in nature because they seek to overthrow the existing international system and its underlying norms.

While these are steps in the right direction, it is important that developing countries are taken on board while creating these new international systems.

That the UK remains part of an interdependent European and global economy, able to influence and shape the international system, will be essential for future prosperity and growth.

Similarly to the Realist Theory, EST believes that the international system is anarchic.

However, it argues that beyond the mechanic - like interactions prevailing within the international system, there is an international «society» that binds its members through shared norms, interests and institutions.

At a more general level, the international system is returning to great power security competition, now that multipolarity is replacing the post-Cold War unipolar moment, and how that future will turn out is uncertain — but one thing that the last 67 years have shown is that nuclear deterrence is a fairly effective way of stopping major power security tension turning into all - out conventional war.

Indeed, countries tend to exhibit three types of behavior toward the international system.

In this way, the six world powers, including the U.S., will remain in full control of handling «gamer» nations such as Iran, subtly swaying, stopping and signaling at the right moments to ensure the Islamic Republic does not spoil the international system.

For those looking for more nuance, detail and depth in analysing the changing position of China and Africa in the international system, I recommend visiting the website of the Oxford University China - Africa Network, which I convene and is currently hosting a series of debates between African public intellectuals on what Chinese investment means for local economic conditions from Mauritania to South Africa.

This is particularly true for the West, but most countries have cooperated to maintain the integrity of the international system.

No state in the international system is perpetually on one side of the spectrum only.

Bestselling author, financial economist (and Oxford alumnus) Dambisa Moyo argues in her new book that the rise of China is generating unanticipated consequences for the international system and that no one — bar the Chinese Communist Party — is actively thinking about how to handle the long term fallout of these seismic shifts.

Furthermore, the frustration expressed over China's rise occurs in the background of a transition towards an international system less dominated by Washington's will.

But is it necessary to ensure that the Iranian regime becomes a complete complier within the international system before the world invites the nation in?

National Interest implies the expectation of national agreement and consensus for the state when it seeks to promote its role, or hold its own in an anarchical international system.

In the international system, states (as individuals in societies) are socialized into norms and security communities, where the notion of egoism is strongly challenged.

This increased openness allows countries such as the U.S. that dominate the international system — the compliers — to strengthen their levers of profit and punishment over gamers.

Instead, and given the multilateral currents of the deal (chiefly its preamble and limitations), I argue that Iran is less likely to try to spoil the international system and its norms, and is more likely to game them.

We can divide up regimes we perceive as harmful to the international system by looking at some as spoilers, and others as gamers.

Each developed interesting ideas before 1969 about how the international system had become multipolar and how to construct peace and order in a new world, yet in office their central concern remained the Soviet Union — even the opening to China being seen as a tactic in that prior relationship.