The Horseman of the Jewish Apocalypse

The Return of the Siloviki

Throughout my premiership, I kept a quote of hers in mind I am not a consensus politician I am a conviction politician.

Other American politicians took the same stance.

But Indian politicians interests appear to lie elsewhere.

But the world s politicians continue to dance around the problem, rather than confront it.

Europe s politicians are by and large proud of the EU and the way it has both grown and deepened.

Here he gets a helping hand from party politicians, because the reformist parties inspire little confidence.

Congress politicians have reacted with robust indignation to Modi s attempt to appropriate Patel s legacy.

This is certainly how many Israeli right wing politicians explain things.

But it was not only Brotherhood politicians inexperienced in the ways of democracy (and skeptical of them) who stumbled.

Europe s politicians simply refuse to take the lead on this all important issue.

Mainstream politicians are so afraid of this populist demagoguery that they often end up mimicking it.

What is certain, however, is that China s politicians have a domestic agenda just like the Americans.

He wants to show that, like France s most famous politicians, he is a worldly dragueur who can pull beautiful women.

It took politicians with vision and diplomatic skills to craft the political entity that emerged after independence.

FRANKFURT Europe s politicians nowadays are desperately looking for someone to blame for the euro crisis.

By modernizing and democratizing at home, Turkey s politicians gained self confidence in their ability to conduct a successful regional policy.

And the longer America s politicians take to resolve the debt ceiling issue, the greater the risk of an inadvertent accident.

Today s politicians focus narrowly on how high a carbon tax should be to stop people from using fossil fuels.

So a perceived failure may cause a massive, perhaps irreversible, loss of confidence in our politicians.

But US politicians are blaming China and other countries for unfair trade, even threatening them with sanctions.

Today, that consensus is unraveling as America s politicians wrestle with a federal budget that is itself turning into a long war one with its own casualties.

But if India s politicians engage in point scoring rather than institution building, the current slowdown may portend stormy weather ahead.

A gigantic, ministerial level scam in the mobile telephone sector had siphoned off many billions of dollars to a corrupt politician.

Their politicians cite budget constraints and the need to prioritize domestic programs over fighting diseases that disproportionately kill the world s poorest.

Of course, those promises were made by politicians who in all likelihood will no longer be in office when the time comes to fulfil them.

The deniers range from second rate historians like David Irving to apparently popular politicians like Iran s recently elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

In pumping up football induced hysteria, Russian politicians headed by then President Vladimir Putin took the lead.

There was, moreover, strong resentment that political power lay in the hands of western based politicians and generals who were blatantly insensitive to Bengali demands.

European politicians instead seem to have become increasingly committed to the notion that global warming is the world s most urgent problem.

It is unrealistic to expect Iraqi politicians to make substantial political sacrifices while their constituents are fighting Americans and one another.

Giving big countries permanent seats on the Executive Board also makes it easier for their politicians to control the ECB through the appointments process.

The left favored flows to their natural constituency, while the right welcomed new property owners who could, perhaps, be convinced to switch party allegiance.

This Hall has many political statesmen but in my encounters with corporate clients around the world, I see more and more businessmen becoming statesmen too.

But the fact remains that, like previous governments, the new administration will consist mostly of politicians unfit to hold ministerial office.

This imperative is not limited to Obama. All Western policymakers will, before long, have to move beyond their parochial political considerations and anxieties to present a clear strategic vision.

Politicians reacted by devising an international financial system after WWII in which default and bankruptcy were more or less impossible.

Before enlargement, it was politically incorrect to discuss possible waves of migration to the West, as EU politicians saw this as an obstacle to the enlargement process.

But if Chinese leaders meeting at their party plenum accomplish half as much as their nineteenth century English predecessors, they will have done very well indeed.

Democratic elections brought out new and savvier politicians, often from among those who were part of the old regime.

China s behavior has fueled a nationalist backlash in Japan, helping to turn hawkish, marginal politicians like Shintaro Ishihara into important mainstream figures.

It is a shocking observation as recently as in 2009, European politicians and commentators lambasted the US for being at the root of the financial turmoil and hailed the euro for protecting the continent from it.

Six years after Lula s inauguration, and despite Bush s trip, Latin American politicians continue to believe that their region is being neglected.

We need scientifically literate politicians adept at evidence based critical thinking to translate these findings and recommendations into policy and international agreements.