Iran s Muddled Presidential Politics

The Muddled Case for Trade Agreements

In North America, governments appear to have muddled through.

Governance by analogy can easily lead to muddled governance.

The result is muddled thinking and inappropriate strategies for reform.

If this proves true, the ICC and its sponsors have muddled justice with diplomacy.

But, since then, global governance has become increasingly muddled, impeding progress in areas of worldwide concern.

Obama muddled his message further by admitting that he did not expect to see abolition in his lifetime.

The muddled results of a Constituent Assembly that Morales had convened to amend the constitution reflected this reality.

The evidence on global warming is considerably more muddled than Gore s film suggests, but the basic problem is real.

WASHINGTON, DC The financial crisis that began in 2007 has been persistently marked by muddled thinking and haphazard policymaking.

Without such a global agreement, the muddled interventions of today will continue, with little hope of any real improvement.

Regardless of how these governance and fiscal issues are resolved, or muddled through, Europe s banks remain a thorny issue.

Parties programs changed with the public opinion polls, and their economic proposals were either too complicated or too muddled for voters to grasp.

Double entry bookkeeping is one of the great discoveries of European civilization, but five centuries later most people are still muddled about assets and liabilities.

Year after year, the EU has successfully muddled through its difficulties. But now it has to deal with two sources of existential crisis Greece and Ukraine.

The muddled, reactive response to the euro crisis reflects the compromises that traditional political parties have made in order to remain in power as generational differences have become increasingly extreme.

The world economy would heal, but in a slow and uneven fashion, as advanced economies muddled through while the more dynamic emerging world gradually closed today s income and wealth gaps.

Unfortunately, much of the discussion surrounding governance reforms fails to make a distinction between governance as an end and governance as a means. The result is muddled thinking and inappropriate strategies for reform.

It will also be interesting to see if and how Merkel tackles Germany s muddled Energiewende (energy turnaround) the move to a low carbon economy that is the most important domestic project of her tenure.

The abbreviations of the two most popular political parties in Spain appear to be muddled with a single logo a way of saying that the two parties are the same, which denounces the two party system.

That was in 1991, when the Soviet Union s collapse had left the US as the world s only superpower. But that is no longer the case a reality that is reflected in the international community s muddled responses to similar territorial breaches today.

Nay , say they , ( these are but ) muddled dreams nay , he hath but invented it nay , he is but a poet . Let him bring us a portent even as those of old ( who were Allah 's messengers ) were sent ( with portents ) .

Nay , say they , ( these are but ) muddled dreams nay , he hath but invented it nay , he is but a poet . Let him bring us a portent even as those of old ( who were Allah 's messengers ) were sent ( with portents ) .

The pattern is starting to look familiar a new crisis, a new meeting in Brussels, an initially muddled response, debates and divisions, and then gradual, step by step progress toward a common response, driven by the realization that there is no other alternative.

WASHINGTON, DC The financial crisis that began in 2007 has been persistently marked by muddled thinking and haphazard policymaking. Now, the United States Treasury is headed for a mistake of historic and catastrophic proportions by refusing to bail out America s Big Three automakers.

Thumbing one s nose at scholarly evidence is always a bad idea, but it is especially damaging to an institution that relies so heavily on the credibility of its technical competence and neutrality. If the Fund embraces muddled economics, on what basis will it defend its policy advice?