And the third pathway would be if the unipolar dominance of a global military hegemon just makes the global economy much more prosperous, for example by reducing the risk of military conflict between less powerful actors.Mr Drezner reviews the literature, and finds very little evidence of pathways one or two going on, except in the old bipolar system that prevailed during the cold war.
For example, prosperous Ismaili communities are helping Ismaili refugees leaving Afghanistan start new lives abroad.
The reduction in the teen birth rate in the prosperous nineties, for example, was fueled in part by more reliable contraceptives, but the new techniques, such as Depo-Provera and other injectables, are more expensive than condoms from the local drugstore.
Having emerged from war and penury to become peaceful, stable and increasingly prosperous, Vietnam sets an example for others.
Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank, recommends targeting benefits to the truly needy (by, for example, getting prosperous elderly folk to pay their own nursing-home bills), eliminating perverse incentives and promoting more competition between medical providers.
Seventy-five percent of the hundreds of businesses on dry, prosperous Magazine Street, for example, reopened within three months of the catastrophe, while only seven percent of those along lightly flooded, poor St . Claude Avenuereopened in the same period.
Yet it is difficult to imagine how, for example, the stable, prosperous and powerful United States might turn into something very different from what it is today.
To take the most striking example, Schacht, a prosperous banker, was made Germany's "currency commissioner" in November 1923, when that country's hyperinflation was completely out of control.
Opinion polls have found dwindling support for the regulations based on sharia that some local governments have introduced.The Prosperous Justice Party, or PKS, for example, grew out of the underground campus resistance to Suharto.
Click for larger image).This led Matthew Yglesias to write, "What you'd like to see in international data is some example of a prosperous country where obesity isn't just at a lower level than in the United States, but where there's no rate of increase.
