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Indeed, some of Putin’s supporters within Russia welcome the sanctions as a means to compel Russian autarky – and thus strategic independence from the West.
The US may be cautious about overextending itself in the Middle East, but that reflects its experience with the costly invasion of Iraq and the general turmoil of the Arab Spring revolutions, rather than illusions that shale produces political “energy independence.”
And in many Western democracies, a strong left-wing constituency regularly organizes demonstrations in favor of Palestinian independence.
Western democracies offered no support for the Kurdistan Regional Government’s independence referendum in late September, and they have not spoken out against the Iraqi and Turkish governments’ threats to crush the KRG’s bid for statehood by force.
When officials in the European Union or the United States give a reason for opposing Kurdish independence, it always comes down to realpolitik.
Iraq’s territorial integrity must be preserved, we are told, and independence for the KRG could destabilize Turkey and Iran, owing to those countries’ sizeable Kurdish minorities.
It is thus understandable that the Turkish and Iranian governments would object to the KRG’s independence bid: they fear the emergence, if it succeeds, of similar movements among their own oppressed Kurdish populations.
Since India gained its independence, the government has systematically refused to collect sufficient data on the socioeconomic aspects of caste.
Of course, after gaining their independence, some of these new nation-states have been struggling to develop democratic institutions and viable economies.
As African countries began to gain independence in the 1950’s, the white minority in South Africa was tightening its grip on power through a racial-segregation system known as apartheid.
Mandela’s release from prison ten years later moved Africa one step closer to absolute independence.
Unfortunately for many African countries, freedom and independence ended up in the hands of a few who had tasted and become addicted to the repressive practices that Africans had spent decades fighting.
This time, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann is warning that the erosion of central-bank independence in some countries – reflected in the Bank of Japan’s recent decision to buy an unlimited number of government bonds to meet its new inflation target of 2% – will trigger competitive exchange-rate devaluations.
He cautions that, if central banks’ mandates expanded to include, implicitly or explicitly, economic growth, they would move too close to the political sphere, undermining their independence and credibility.
They are not ready to give up their independence.My main worry is the loss of the chance for Britain to help shape the political future of Europe.
They are not ready to give up their independence.
Indeed, he even angered the United States, Taiwan’s only military protector, by his frequent confrontational tactics, such as pushing Taiwan towards independence, which runs counter to America’s longstanding “One-China” policy.
According to that view, investors punish profligate states by demanding higher interest rates to hedge against the likelihood of inflation; so the best way to ensure low borrowing costs is to give central banks as much independence from politicians as possible, and then make price stability their primary mandate.
Its independence was secured not only by national legislation within the member states, but also by a treaty between them.
In Tocqueville’s imagination, at least, the old order’s subjects had been eager to protect their particular liberties and jealous of their spheres of independence.
The Who, Where, and When of SecessionCAMBRIDGE – This week, Kurds in northern Iraq voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence for the country’s Kurdistan Region.
Spain’s government argues that the upcoming independence vote in Catalonia is illegal under the Spanish constitution.
When India was partitioned following independence in 1947, perhaps as many as a million Muslim and Hindu civilians were murdered on religious grounds.
And in 1971, Pakistani troops and allied militias massacred up to three million Bangladeshi civilians to suppress the Bengali drive for independence.
Taiwan's Sovereignty DilemmaTo allay China's fury over his private trip to Taiwan this summer before becoming Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong said that his country will not support Taiwan should it declare formal independence from mainland China.
Hu told Bush that the Taiwan issue was "very sensitive," and that China would "absolutely not tolerate Taiwan independence."
Of course, Taiwan's parlous relations with China have suffered further as a result, with China's government denouncing calls for a new constitution as a calculated move towards independence.
China fears that the government still wants to write a new constitution - one from which Taiwanese independence would be derived.
That, however, may merely strengthen support in Taiwan for independence as the only way out.
Indeed, at no time since independence has there been such a proliferation of democracy in Latin America.
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