In a rational, predictable world, such an outcome might produce stability.

But NATO, though it defends Estonia, reacted very prudently. Why?

But only if water is shared in a rational manner that respects the region s fragile ecology will human life be sustainable.

Yet today most economists model unemployment as voluntary a rational preference for leisure rather than work.

Iran may be a self proclaimed theocracy, but it has conducted foreign relations since the 1979 revolution in a rational, if not always emollient, way.

The region s climate and geography mean that water resources are unavoidably shared. But only if water is shared in a rational manner that respects the region s fragile ecology will human life be sustainable.

A global system for prudential regulation and supervision a revamped IMF managing a global reserve currency, coordinating global macroeconomic policy, and providing agile credit lines and an international debt court all of these must be on the agenda.