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After the United Nations imposed an international flight ban against Libya in 1992, its land crossings with Egypt proved crucial to Libya’s economy (and possibly Qaddafi’s political survival).
But the EU’s critics do not like the idea of coordinated foreign policies any more than they liked the idea of fiscal and monetary discipline being imposed in the middle of a recession.
The familiarity of Japan, it seems, is no longer sufficient to compel the wealthy to endure the high taxes imposed upon them.
It is not imposed.
We began the battle against entrenched corruption, imposed the rule of law on Ukraine’s robber barons, and encouraged the birth of a vital civil society.
Countries have a right to difference, not to imposed convergence.
This infant democracy was harshly interrupted when martial law was imposed in December 1981, with Solidarity outlawed and dissidents arrested.
Today’s system is plagued by cycles of confidence in the dollar and by periodic shocks due to American policies that are adopted independently of their global impact and thus imposed on the rest of the world.
The current system relies on ad hoc mechanisms, which generally operate too late, after high indebtedness has already imposed devastating effects.
Nevertheless, we can still conclude from the Iraqi experience that while the development of democracy can be aided from outside, it cannot easily be imposed by force.
Second, there can be no free riders, so trade sanctions – the only effective sanctions that the international community currently has – can and should be imposed on those not going along.
The World Trade Organization recently reported that in response to US tariffs, G20 countries have imposed around 40 new import restrictions, affecting $481 billion in global trade – a sixfold increase from the year before.
We should be concerned about the efficiency losses in markets where restrictions stemming from economic nationalism have so far been imposed.
A system of border taxes – imposed on imports from countries where firms do not have to pay appropriately for carbon emissions – would level the playing field and provide economic and political incentives for countries to adopt a carbon tax or emission caps.
In fact, Rosanna’s potential could have been extinguished at the moment when her new husband demanded that she end her education – a demand imposed on many child brides.
The Chilean military strongman Augusto Pinochet, for example, imposed his own version of capitalism with an iron fist, and, though Margaret Thatcher and Friedrich von Hayek admired him, hardly anyone reveres him today.
The Trump administration has imposed import tariffs on steel, aluminum, and a wide range of Chinese goods (with many more to come), and it is considering additional levies on automobiles from Europe and the rest of the world.
Russia’s economy is under severe strain as a result of the sanctions imposed by the West over Crimea.
So, when Yeltsin’s American-style democratization of the 1990’s failed to bring “orderly” capitalism instantly, Putin on his accession imposed a restoration of state “order,” as if a stable political or economic system demanded a fusing of the Soviet past with the Orthodox Church and Mother Russia imagery.
So religion cannot be imposed; individuals must practice it according to their own decisions.
Call this ideology-free democracy: a political system that tolerates restrictions imposed only from within, never from outside, the democratic process itself.
While Thein Sein would undoubtedly wish to see the myriad economic and political sanctions imposed on Burma quickly lifted, it is too soon for a general easing of such measures.
France in the ancien régime repeatedly imposed semi-default on its creditors by reducing interest rates and extending maturities.
Despite much hue and cry about it, governments have in fact imposed remarkably few trade barriers on imports.
The GTA report tells us how many measures have been imposed since November 2008, but says nothing about the analogous numbers prior to that date.
What about the recent tariffs imposed by the United States on Chinese tires?
The tariffs that Obama imposed were considerably below what the USITC had recommended.
Barack Obama has outlined four conditions that ought to be imposed: an upside for the taxpayers as well as a downside; a bipartisan board to oversee the process; help for homeowners as well as the holders of the mortgages; and some limits on the compensation of those who benefit from taxpayers’ money.
Our Duty to Migrants and RefugeesDHAKA – The indefinite ban on Syrian refugees imposed by the United States has cast a bright spotlight on one of the great challenges of our time.
Obama has already made it clear that the US understands that Modi’s willingness to cooperate with Russia, despite Western sanctions imposed on the country, stems from India’s desire to discourage a Sino-Russian alliance against it.
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