The new summit is unlikely to produce either a coordinated stimulus package or a detailed blueprint for a foolproof system of financial regulation.

Interactions with peers who are successfully coping with their experiences or illness are more likely to result in positive behavior change.

In summary, developments in China appear unlikely to change the balance between global supply and demand dramatically.

Unfortunately, therefore, the indirect negotiations now being launched are unlikely to produce any tangible result on the borders of the Palestinian state.

The problem is that another election won t fix this political mess, but will likely only ensure continuing paralysis.

In any case, the only process for acting on such indicators is peer pressure, which is unlikely to deliver results.

But, as in Colombia, the effort to militarize the war on drugs and the war on terrorism seems likely only to generate more disorder.

Apart from being sound in principle, the accountability that is inherent in that approach is also more likely to produce a Security Council in which regional and global concerns predominate over simply national interests.

And that s the main reason any power sharing deal with former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is unlikely to end Pakistan s political turmoil.

Although war is unlikely in the coming months, if sanctions on Iran don t bear fruit by early 2011, Israel might feel the need to act.

Indeed, the impact of real exchange rate depreciation on growth is likely to be short lived unless increased corporate profits in the export sector lead to higher household consumption and investment.

Ideally, the model should produce similar results to what has happened historically.

The outgrowths of humanitarian crises usually have potentially disastrous consequences for peace and security.

Denmark sincerely hopes that those discussions will have a positive outcome.

I believe that China s innovative model for development is likely to help it weather both the gathering economic crisis and any resulting social and political unrest.

LONDON With Labour trailing the Conservatives slightly in opinion polls, the British election on May 6 could well produce a hung parliament, in which neither major party obtains a majority and the Liberal Democrats hold the balance of power.

Of course, there will be many powerful losers as we make these changes.

Our choices will result in different outcomes and different costs.

The war did not bring forth a real decision.

But Somalia soon demonstrated that quagmires can be a two way street.

Coherent, well defined, and precise proposals would produce results that are more acceptable to all.

All other combinations would either exceed the budget or yield a lower payoff.

Indeed, the idea of warfare on the Korean peninsula should be unthinkable, given the grotesque levels of deaths that it would likely cause.

This see no evil policy has yielded precious little stability.

Little has come of these arguments.

A boycott would merely provoke nationalist hostility in China.

It hoped that those improvements would lead to effective changes in application.

But it is unlikely that much good will come from bombing them.

Medvedev is unlikely to try to change course.

The randomness of the political process could easily produce outcomes that reduce its independence.

The addition of permanent members would also have significant and adverse indirect consequences through what is known as the cascade effect.

Moreover, the overall level of spending is likely to be large.

All his requests to be released had no results.

He urged the members not to propose subjects that look unlikely to result in any direct action.

More problematic, a misdiagnosis can lead to treatments that impair the healing process.

The net result of a series of small changes would be a dramatic reduction in energy consumption.

Big bangs in institutional reform, however, may generate more harm than good.

Of course, it is unrealistic and naïve to expect that the changes now underway in Libya will result in a rapid transition to European style democracy.

Each person is responsible for a particular aspect of the activity that cumulatively produces the crime, such as fraud.

The showers of the Arab Spring have not produced an attractive crop of leaders, let alone a harvest of democracy.

The postcommunist transitional agenda is exhausted, without having yielded a sustainable European politico economic structure.

High and rising inflation creates great costs and is difficult to reverse.

The experiences of Venezuela and Bolivia suggest that the process only frustrates both radical and democratic forces.

Other regions, however, are likely to be unable to provide productive employment.

It is worth noting that the worst nuclear disaster in history directly caused only 31 fatalities.