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Yet national independence can also be handled peacefully and smoothly.
The rest of the UK (called the “RUK” in the current debate), including England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, would quickly and efficiently negotiate the terms of independence with Scotland, agreeing how to share the UK’s public debt and public assets, including offshore oil and gas.
If cool heads prevail, Scottish independence could proceed at a relatively low cost.
In such circumstances, unilateral claims of independence opposed by the national government or a sub-national unit often lead to a breakdown of trade and finance – and often to outright war, as we saw in the breakup of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and most recently, Sudan.
Even if Scotland declares independence, it will – and should continue to be – bound by a dense web of European and global rules and responsibilities.
I am personally sympathetic to Scotland’s independence as a way to bolster Scottish democracy and cultural identity.
Yet I support independence only on the assumption that Scotland and the RUK would remain part of a strong and effective EU and NATO.
What is at issue is the law-enforcement authorities’ independence and impartiality.
Answering them will require a debate that transcends issues like the separation of powers and judicial independence and elucidates the appropriate relationship between politics and religion.
As Bernanke himself warns, such a policy could undermine central banks’ long-term independence.
Above all, nutrigenomics holds out the promise of providing the healthy independence that everyone hopes for in later years.
Another key challenge for Francis is the laity’s growing independence from clerical authority.
At the same time, Francis’s Jesuit background has instilled in him a certain independence and flair for the quirky (like nonchalantly sanctifying John XXIII and John Paul II in one fell swoop).
Ukrainians know that the choice they make now, that their decision to stand firm with Viktor Yushchenko today, will determine their freedom forever, as well as the health of their nation – its independence as well as its economic strength.
The Kuomintang (also called the Chinese Nationalist Party) wants to improve relations without surrendering Taiwan’s independence.
A survey three years ago suggested that 80% of Taiwan’s 25 million people would support a formal declaration of independence, provided that it did not prompt a Chinese invasion.
The European Neighborhood Policy is worthy enough, but it does not address the pressing concerns about maintaining and securing Ukraine’s independence.
One of the most effective ways to empower women anywhere, but especially in the developing world, is by promoting financial independence.
In Kosovo, Ban was able to lower the temperature on the boiling issue of the province’s independence.
This approach emerged soon after Kazakhstan’s independence in 1991, when the country initiated the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, modeled after the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (now the OSCE).
Kazakhstan achieved independence at a time when international cooperation, free trade, and collective security were encouraged, and it has long worked to support these principles.
The call to strike out for independence is a mirage in the modern world.
There is only one answer: the losers, in this crisis, can only be the member states; either directly; or indirectly, through the weakening of the independence of “their” national Commissioners.
Since the Kremlin interrupted energy supplies to the Baltic states in 1990 in a futile attempt to stifle their independence movements, it has continued to use pipeline politics against countries such as Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania – all new EU members.
Since Indian independence, the government has done much to improve the Dalits’ status, and the deputy consul general is one of the beneficiaries of this policy.
For Europe and the US, contesting such laws one by one represents a nearly impossible task, which is why both must redouble their efforts in support of full independence for the Constitutional Court.
Brazil, Turkey, and, yes, Iran are all clearly keen to demonstrate their political and foreign-policy independence.
The Kurds – who, like the Shi’a, were victimized by Saddam for decades – quietly cling to their de facto independence in the north, making sure that they will never again come under Arab rule.
So Russia must wait before Russian politics asserts its independence and the media learns to report, rather than create.
Within the EU, however, the barriers between states – and thus the economic and political risks of independence – are lower.
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