He fears Ukraine s 2014 uprising as a revolutionary plague only because it might erupt in Moscow s own squares. Putin s desire to preempt such an outcome explains the Kremlin s brutal response.

There is no denying that advanced democracies largely failed to preempt the financial and sovereign debt crises, while most emerging economies pursued better economic policies. How can modern Western democracies impose strict fiscal discipline?

Moreover, the Kurdish issue has reappeared and could indirectly influence and re radicalize the Palestinian question. Unfortunately, there is not much evidence that an Israeli Palestinian settlement based on a two state solution will preempt this development.

We cannot foster sustainable growth or preempt a sovereign debt crisis in Europe (or anywhere else) by piling up more debt. European countries need to reduce their deficits in a growth friendly fashion, but reduce them they must.

Meanwhile, the two main parties to the dispute, Palestine and Israel, are searching for unilateral alternatives to the stymied peace process. The Palestinians are pushing for international recognition of their statehood, while the Israelis are using their settlement policy to preempt a Palestinian state.

Prime Minister David Cameron s government announced last July that it intended to abolish the HFEA by 2014, along with the Human Tissue Authority, which deals with non reproductive tissues. Already, the HFEA appears to be attempting to preempt the government by softening its regulatory touch.

There are three points I wish to make. First, with regard to the so called framework draft resolution to which some members have referred and which A 53 L.16 seems intended to preempt, I just want to draw your attention to the fact that there is no such draft resolution.

Regulators could not go back and fix it with their new Dodd Frank powers, because the firm would already be ripped asunder. So, as it stands now, regulators need to preempt bankruptcy, not rely on it, because as soon as any failed financial firm files for bankruptcy, it has signed its own death warrant.

If recession drags on and Americans continue to blame trade agreements erroneously for growing unemployment, falling wages, and yawning inequality, opposition to these deals will grow. Instead of waiting for the pressure to mount, the next president would do well to preempt it with an ambitious agenda on free trade reform that would benefit everyone.

Vaccines already prevent the deaths of 2 3 million people every year, preempt human suffering, lighten the burden placed on health care systems, and enable more rapid economic and social development. Models show that adding even a partly effective AIDS vaccine to the current range of prevention and treatment procedures could dramatically lower the rate of HIV infection.

Given that the IMF is the world s anointed guardian of financial stability, its failure to warn and preempt constitutes a far more grievous lapse than its position on British austerity, with huge costs borne by many, especially the most vulnerable. For these failures, the Fund has never offered any apology, certainly not in the abject manner of Lagarde s recent statement.

The large and widely recognized EU electoral observation mission on the ground should issue a strong and timely final report that comes down clearly on whether the vote represented the will of the people of South Sudan. Such leadership can stymie politically motivated challenges to the referendum s result and preempt a period of uncertainty that increases tensions on the ground.