The Allure of Asia

An untidy little magazine called Allure.

These invisible links that allure, these transfigurations, even of anguish, that hold us.

Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

Stronger information campaigns directed at youth that counter the false allure of these products are much needed.

Pete Morgan's farm has the allure of a wall castle that everybody knows about, but few have entered.

However, individuals and companies prompted by the allure of gain, have engaged in transactions for the transfer of industrial wastes in utter disregard of the rights of individuals and peoples.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

Nevertheless, Russia remains susceptible to Europe s allure. Historically, Russia always aspired to be part of Europe, and the Putin regime recognizes that it would pay a big price if it sought to return to the Soviet Union s isolation.

The global financial crisis added to gold s allure, owing initially to fear of a second Great Depression. Later, some investors feared that governments would unleash inflation to ease the burden of soaring public debt and address persistent unemployment.

Outside the walls of the typical Muslim households that I visited in Morocco, Jordan, and Egypt, all was demureness and propriety. But inside, women were as interested in allure, seduction, and pleasure as women anywhere in the world.

He is the man whom many American presidents would like to emulate, not because of any racial affinities, but because of his allure as a wartime leader. The US is the strongest military power in the world, just as Britain was in Churchill s youth.

The current trend toward rose colored retrospection is a case in point. Faced with political, economic, geostrategic, and social uncertainty, policymakers have increasingly succumbed to the allure of nostalgia, promising a return to what they portray as the familiar and complete rules and practices of the past.

But, over the past several years, a number of sub Saharan countries have attracted unprecedented inflows of foreign capital. Recent global financial turmoil has only added to Africa s allure, because its frontier markets are less vulnerable to international volatility than are most of the world s more familiar emerging economies.

Was Bush right to boast of America s role in giving these countries their freedom? As he put it to the Kansas City veterans Will today s generation of Americans resist the allure of retreat, and will we do in the Middle East what the veterans in this room did in Asia?

Anti Americanism and an aggressive foreign policy are, of course, part of the allure of men like Nasrullah. But what has really allowed Hezbollah (and Hamas, for that matter) to win elections and cement support is their ability to provide education, health, and other social services, particularly to the poor.

The upsurge of protest across the Arab world raised expectations among Europeans that these countries would, to some extent, emulate Western institutions, values, and norms. But, while that did not occur, European principles certainly have not lost their allure, as recent protests in Ukraine, triggered by President Viktor Yanukovych s decision to shun closer ties with Europe, have shown.

The shine may have come off the EU, but the gripping scenes from Kyiv s Maidan Square are a powerful reminder of the enduring appeal of Europe s core values. What the EU needs now is an updated external strategy that capitalizes on this allure to bolster its influence, security, and prosperity, thereby halting its slide toward irrelevance.

Third, the allure of rejoining Europe after years of isolation, together with the European Union s commitment to enlargement, provided a gravitational pull and a legislative template that helped policymakers justify and implement difficult reforms. Unpopular laws sometimes brought down governments, but the ultimate litmus test for any new policy remained Will it lead us back to Europe?

But, while abolishing energy subsidies is absolutely essential to balance the budget and put the economy on a sound footing, these steps also risk hitting eastern Ukraine, which contains a substantial Russophone minority, particularly hard. Some there might be tempted by the allure of a better life in Mother Russia, with its vast resources of cheap energy.

At such a sensitive time, it is no surprise to hear politicians pitching the idea of tax reform suggesting that they can simplify the system, close loopholes, and use the proceeds to reduce tax rates. The allure of such appeals is that a crackdown on others tax avoidance will mean that you personally will pay less in taxes.

New START builds on a legacy of strategic nuclear arms limitation that goes back to the 1970 s. Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger captured the allure in recent testimony The subject of nuclear arms control grew out of the seemingly paradoxical effort of those who had created the largest and most destructive arsenals to avoid by negotiation the ultimate consequences of their own decisions.

All of this cannot fail but to weaken Western democracy s allure in countries like Russia, where, unlike in the West or to a large extent the Arab world, those who are organizing the massive demonstrations against the government belong to the economic elite. Theirs is a movement of political reform demanding more freedom and government accountability not of social protest, at least not yet.

But there is a deeper reason for the success of the nuclear negotiations Khomeini s Islamic revolution of 1979 has finally ended and Khamenei knows it. He must also know that the export of Islamic revolution from Shia Iran has lost its allure, replaced in the Sunni world first by the global jihad of al Qaeda and now by the so called Islamic State and caliphate of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi.

That allure is why foreign students from emerging countries around the world flock to Britain, putting millions of pounds annually into the coffers of its universities. By slashing the funding for the institutions which created that civilization, Cameron has guaranteed that tomorrow s Britain will be a nation not of world class politicians, writers, and cultural innovators, but of wonky technocrats raised on bad TV, with little influence beyond their tiny island.