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Tucker argues, correctly, that few independent agencies are based on a careful application of principles that would pass the test of democratic legitimacy.
If countries like Poland, the Czech Republic and even tiny Slovenia start to feel that they could survive as independent nations in a peaceful Eurasian continent why should they subsume themselves in a multinational superstate?
The Importance of Doing BusinessMADRID – This month, an independent review panel is expected to release its findings regarding the World Bank’s Doing Business report.
The situation is not much better in Tunisia, where, according to Freedom House’s 2015 report, “criminal defamation remains one of the biggest obstacles to independent reporting.”
To them, an independent India, freed after nearly 1,000 years of alien rule (first Muslim, then British) and rid of a sizable portion of its Muslim population by Partition, is obliged to embody and assert the triumphant indigenous identity of the 82% of the population who consider themselves Hindu.
It was briefly independent (for five days) in 1960 after the British withdrawal, before throwing in its lot with the formerly Italian south, a decision which its people have regretted ever since.
An independent Somaliland could be a force for stability and good governance in an otherwise hopeless region.
As one of the poorest and neediest countries in the world, for which oil revenues would be the only source of income for years to come, an independent South Sudan could not be expected to rescue the debt-ridden North.
For those peoples and countries now marginalized from the process of technological development, production, and exchange I believe that only one viable option exists: a new assertion of themselves as independent states, regionally integrated in as many ways as possible.
The 1947 United Nations Partition Plan called for the division of British-controlled Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, but it set aside Jerusalem as an independent enclave under international administration.
While early proposals for a settlement called for Jerusalem to be made independent, as per the UN Partition Plan, more recently a consensus on the broad outlines of a peace agreement has emerged.
That pose as democracy’s guardian earned Shevardnadze independent Georgia’s presidency at a time when the country was vulnerable to civil war.
But in each case, independent judges are viewed as rival power holders.
An independent Scotland’s continued use of the British pound – the Scottish government’s official position – could be approached in two ways.
All things considered, an independent Scotland would be best served by issuing its own national currency from the outset, empowering the National Bank of Scotland to set interest rates according to domestic economic conditions.
But, regardless of who leaves first, any countries trading in the euro for their defunct national currencies would, like an independent Scotland, have to determine the right degree of exchange-rate flexibility.
Furthermore, Slovakia, unlike most of its regional peers, has fulfilled its legal obligation to join the eurozone – an obligation that an independent Scotland would have to take on when, as expected, it sought EU membership.
They are clueless and deluded practitioners of an alternative journalism whose idea of boldness is to go after an independent writer.
But the prospect of an independent Palestine destabilizing Jordan is never offered as an argument against Palestinian statehood, and nor should such an argument be used against Iraq’s Kurds.
The fact is that, with a flexible exchange rate, a country can offset the recessionary impact of a neighboring country’s monetary easing using its own independent monetary policy, guided by carefully chosen inflation targets.
The constitution of liberty requires both, and the rule of law is the more difficult of the two to establish and maintain, for it requires not just a constitution but, almost more importantly, an independent judiciary that is sensitive to violations of constitutional and other legitimate rules.
But the task of finding, appointing, and accepting independent judges remains.
The delegation of monetary policy to an independent central bank is the archetypal example: in the service of price stability, daily management of monetary policy is insulated from politics.
In short, Obama ought not to ask, “What will India do for us?”, but rather, “Is a strong, democratic and independent India in America’s national interest?”
Nor is Hezbollah keen to see the end of Israel’s occupation of the Sheba Farms on the Lebanon border undermine its claim to the formidable independent military force that it has built with Iranian and Syrian help.
Political leaders, government officials, and judges do not even pretend that the judicial system is independent and fair.
In this new context of institutionalization of anti-establishment groups, the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights looks even more outmoded and useless after it added 39 new members, for a total of 62 (the most authoritative independent figures quit last year).
The Soviet Union had repressed or destroyed every vestige of civil society – professional associations, religious groups, charitable societies, the independent media – the types of social organizations that would normally help to limit widespread government corruption.
But the Turkish government also hopes to prevent the establishment of an independent Kurdistan that could project its influence into southeast Turkey.
An independent panel could play the role of arbiter, evaluating the competing claims and helping to overcome the political posturing on both sides.
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