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At the very least, the critics maintain, Obama should have enforced the so-called “red lines” that he set, such as intervening in the event that the Assad regime deployed chemical weapons.
Realistically, it will be difficult to forge agreement on what specific sovereign obligations states have and how they should be enforced.
The major problem, of course, was that in some cases, discipline was not enforced.
Indeed, the partial withdrawal of the US implies that the end of the enforced stability of the old Middle East will not spare the Sykes-Picot borders.
When firms or individuals contract with each other, agreements will be enforced (coercively, if necessary) by governments, and disputes will be settled by impartial judges.
After a few months, these popular forums were brought to an abrupt halt, as security services enforced a stringent set of regulations that effectively closed these open gatherings.
Fearing that elections might bring an Islamist majority to Parliament and to the assembly that will write a new constitution, most secularists demanded supra-constitutional principles (akin to a bill of rights, with a few twists) or a constitution to be enforced by the SCAF before elections.
For Solzhenitsyn, a survivor of the gulag system enforced by the KGB, the desire to see Russia as a great nation, its eternal spirit superior to the West’s vulgar materialism, found him in old age supporting ex-KGB man Putin, who once said that there is no such thing as an ex-KGB man and who sees the Soviet Union’s collapse as the greatest geo-political catastrophe of modern times.
Market economies cannot operate when their established rules are haphazardly enforced, which is what happens when national and international regulators turn into advocates for local enterprises and enemies of foreign businesses.
Second, regulations that identify the true owners of illicit funds need to be enforced.
Objections from European and Asian allies were brushed away as old-fashioned, unimaginative, cowardly reactions to the dawn of a new age of worldwide democracy, enforced by unassailable US military power.
But the idea that it could be enforced by the Imperial Japanese Army running amok through China and Southeast Asia was disastrous.
But it lacked effective legal and accounting systems, so those rules and regulations could not be properly enforced.
In fact, the old Kenyan constitution underpinned legislation that, if enforced, would have addressed some of the factors that fuel violence.
But, as the highly polluted Nairobi River demonstrates, the law has never been enforced.
This economic siege, zealously enforced even by Arab and Islamic banks, followed the new Hamas-led government’s refusal to accept the demand by the “quartet” – the United States, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia – that it recognize Israel, accept all previous agreements with Israel, and renounce terrorism.
Lebanon is an ideal social laboratory because it has a large number of geographically segregated religious groups and strongly enforced communal boundaries.
Global regulatory initiatives, particularly those aimed at standardizing accounting and other disclosure requirements, will be enforced vigorously.
For example, court orders against employers who had dismissed workers for engaging in union activities were not enforced.
Either national democratic processes will prevail, rendering the rules ineffective, or the rules will be strictly enforced, and the limits that they impose on national political systems risk plunging democracy itself into crisis.
To be sure, capital controls can buy some time; just how much depends on their design, how zealously they are enforced, and other institutional arrangements.
In the end, both sides blinked: the Americans accepted a deal for Chen to leave the embassy that could not be enforced, and the Chinese ultimately agreed to allow Chen to go to the US to study, just like many thousands of other Chinese do nowadays.
In a stable world, Maastricht Treaty’s rules-based framework, if enforced, might do the job.
For example, fiscal money would have helped Greece resist our creditors’ encroachments in 2015, and it was at the heart of my plan for dealing with a predatory bank holiday enforced by the ECB at the end of that June.
The US has maintained a broad sanctions regime against Iran since the mid-1990’s, and has enforced it vigorously – imposing $1.9 billion in penalties on the bank HSBC last year, for example, and blacklisting entities that help Iran evade financial restrictions.
But Chinese regulations are sometimes promulgated simply to blunt external criticism, and thus are seldom enforced, except when a case attracts international attention.
Nevertheless, artificial wage increases enforced by government policies could slow down the process of labor reallocation and make some “surplus labor” permanent.
These agreed rules are enforced not just by EU courts and bureaucracies, but also by national courts in the member states.
In Beijing last year, I was told by a Chinese foreign-policy expert that the country’s reluctance to interfere in other countries’ internal affairs partly reflects the legacy of the one-child policy that was enforced for more than three decades.
Civil society has been crushed and the middle class decimated--thanks in no small part to the UN-led economic sanctions that have been enforced since 1991.
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