However, Brazil struggles with extreme social inequalities, environmental degradation, intermittent financial crises, and a sometimes deadlocked political system.
So Mr. Eastwood wasted an important educational and therapeutic moment from which our deadlocked political system could benefit: putting himself in the role of the other person of whom he is critical and coming to understand that person's point of view "from inside".
In one of his books, "Deep Pit," he lists six issues that he thinks could cause a national crisis, among them the "trite, empty and deadlocked Chinese education system".
EU member states remain deadlocked over a permanent system of refugee quotas, a dispute that threatens to delay a broader overhaul of the European asylum system, comprising seven laws.
Specifically, in 2010 the administration should focus on improving and reforming our congressional and presidential public financing systems, and on creating a new campaign enforcement system to replace the deadlocked and ineffectual Federal Election Commission.
"The asylum system in France is completely deadlocked and I fear deliberately so – they should be challenged on that," she said.
Trump hasn't just insulted Obama personally: Trump's entire candidacy represents an affront to everything that Obama stands for and got elected on — hope, inclusiveness, reason, and faith in a democratic political system (even if that system is frustratingly deadlocked).
A once-robust system of government has given way to deadlocked ideological irrationality; the people Mak interviews are embarrassed by the cultural and political conflicts that consume their public lives.
In hindsight, it would have been better to start Agenda 2010 early in Mr Schröder's first term, though he was at first stuck with Oskar Lafontaine, now co-leader of the Left Party, as finance minister and SPD chairman.It is always hard to push reform through Germany's political system, which has grown ever more inflexible and deadlocked.
But the system has proved useful in finding consensus on deadlocked issues such as the alcohol sales law, and its methods are now being applied to a larger consultation platform, called Join, that's being tried out in some local government settings.
