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In addition to moral considerations, the decision to intervene was motivated by concerns about the future of European-American relations, and of NATO after the cold war.
More recently, Israel refused to intervene in the Syrian civil war against Bashar al-Assad’s Shia-affiliated Alawite regime.
On November 3, after rebel forces killed nine people in a Druze village inside Syria, the Israeli military warned that it would intervene to prevent the occupation of the village.
Nor is there any prospect that someone else will intervene in Sudan to make an arrest.
We understand, of course, the reluctance to intervene in what is traditionally considered a family matter.
And yet confidence in the recent decisions taken in Brussels remains low, owing not only to dissipated trust and the fuss about the British veto, but also to the apparent absence of measures to intervene in the current crisis.
By contrast, the HDP protested against the previous AKP government’s failure to intervene last year when the Islamic State besieged the Syrian city of Kobane.
But the US did in fact act to topple Assad, albeit mostly covertly and through allies, especially Saudi Arabia and Turkey (though neither country needed much prodding to intervene).
It has embraced policies and a military doctrine that labels NATO a threat and justifies the right to intervene in these countries.
As for security matters, I believe that in cases that are beyond any doubt, America, while enjoying the general support of freedom-loving people and peaceful democracies, must have the strength to intervene with force -- that is by military means -- against evil.
Nor does the Fed intervene directly in foreign exchange markets except in extraordinary circumstances.
Last August, US President Barack Obama warned Syria’s government that any move toward chemical-weapon deployment would cross a “red line,” giving the conflict a broader strategic dimension and, in turn, increasing the likelihood that the United States would intervene.
The state’s role is to protect, enforce, and regulate these contracts and related property rights, as well as to intervene to prevent systemic failure.
Likewise, central banks nowadays intervene in ways that often are poorly understood by those most affected.
It would be far better to persuade China to intervene to bring Kim’s regime to heel.
The official version of these events was that the EU was obliged to intervene to force a wayward population back to the path of fiscal rectitude and structural reform.
Caught in the transition from China’s tightly controlled, state-directed model, the government seems to be waffling – for example, by stressing a decisive shift to markets, only to intervene aggressively when equity prices plummet.
If the ECB concludes that panicked investors are threatening the integrity of the payments system by selling a member state’s bonds, then it should intervene, buying up those bonds on the secondary market, ESM agreement or not.
The ESM link is designed to reassure the German public that the ECB will not intervene indiscriminately.
It would also make known to currency traders its concern about excessive departures from its estimated parity values and its readiness to intervene at unpredictable moments to impede further departures from PPP.
This policy would be even more effective if it were known that more than one central bank – say, the Fed and the ECB – were prepared to intervene.
Instead, our limit-the-swings strategy implies that, as the exchange rate moves further away from parity, central banks should intervene.
Moreover, neither Syria’s neighbors nor Western governments are willing to intervene militarily.
With the notable exception of the Fed, central banks fear the impact of an appreciating currency on domestic companies' competitiveness too much not to intervene; indeed, an increasing number of them are working actively to weaken their currencies.
Rather, the economy has become so vulnerable to declines in asset prices that the Fed is obliged to intervene to prevent them from inflicting broad damage.
After citing the principle of non-interference by one member state in the internal affairs of another, the document goes on to declare “the right of the Union to intervene in a member state pursuant to a decision of the assembly in respect of grave circumstances, namely war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.”
But Ozawa remains combative, hinting that the two sides are engaged in a grudge match – and knowing that his faction can intervene through the ruling DPJ to shake up the personnel, budget, and operations of the prosecutor’s office.
Clipping the Euro’s WingsFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy’s call for the European Central Bank to intervene to curtail the soaring euro is commonly seen as a sign that he neither understands nor trusts markets.
So politicians like Sarkozy may have grounds to argue that central banks should intervene to limit such swings.
Instead, the “ limit-the-swings” strategy proposed here implies that, as the exchange rate moves further away from parity, central banks should use their reserves to intervene at unpredictable moments in order to reinforce the effect of their regular announcements of the parity range on traders’ perception of increased risk of capital losses.
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