Russia's history has not prepared its people to feel kinship with the West or to regard its institutions as relevant to them.
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Moreover, exercising real political leadership on climate change would also re-invigorate the EU project, giving it a new aim and purpose, and helping to reconnect its institutions with its increasingly jaded half-a-billion citizens, inspiring them with a new sense of enthusiasm and common cause.
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At Merrill, McDonough is charged with advising senior management in its efforts to develop business with governments and financial institutions.
The trouble is that Indonesia is a vast country with more than 200m people, and its civilian institutions are fragile.
On financial regulation, transatlantic differences have narrowed, with America agreeing to broaden its scope to encompass institutions such as hedge funds.
Multilateralists will argue precisely the opposite case: that America must be more engaged than ever in international institutions and acting in concert with its allies.
And if it never does become any better, then at least its leaders, its institutions, its companies and its nations, should be able to deal with the challenges that are thrown at them in a dynamic fashion.
His centre-right government must now either find alternative savings and submit them to parliament in the form of a supplementary budget - at a time when its authority to implement further austerity is weakened by the court's decision - or seek to renegotiate the terms of the bailout accord with the troika, the three institutions overseeing its implementation, says the BBC's Alison Roberts in Lisbon.
The administration proposed nothing more than twice a year reports on what it was doing with its authority to buy bad debt from troubled financial institutions.
Without reforming its laws and public institutions, welfare schemes with the best intentions run the risk of floundering.
However, 2012 could have been a terrific year if Wall Street and its preeminent institutions had behaved honestly and decently with the public.
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Its financial institutions, for example, remain heavily burdened with deadbeat loans.
Properly done, it might mean a truer democracy, with government, like industry and other institutions, having to actually earn its money.
Although branding has traditionally been associated with the private sector, more and more higher education institutions are recognizing its value and adopting it.
And yet, thanks to the Arab spring, Islam stands its best chance in generations of re-engaging with politics to found institutions in which religious and civil life can coexist.
Its report said by 2013 distribution should reflect regional needs with no more than two institutions per region.
What sounded crazy back then has been seen as a success more recently, with financial institutions like Goldman Sachs investing in mission-driven CDFIs through partnerships like its 10, 000 Small Businesses initiative, launched last year.
Most financial institutions are members of different communities and connected to different networks, each with its own standards.
WiCC-enabled phones will interoperate seamlessly with the full range of Duracell Powermat wireless charging products as well as with wireless power offered by its growing ecosystem of partners such as leading airports, cars, educational institutions and furniture makers.
Mr. Maduro lacks his predecessor's charisma or military background, but the institutions of the regime are now entrenched, and its beneficiaries will not easily part with them.
Ever since the eurozone sovereign debt crisis began in December 2009 with the Greek economic imbroglio, Germany has sought to use the power of its purse to reshape EU institutions to its own liking.
Financial institutions with significant European holdings may find themselves in trouble, too, should Greece exit or restructure its debt.
For institutions like BankMuscat, the largest bank in Oman, this means beefing up its information technology with such services as that provided by Tocco Studios.
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