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Indeed, credible investigations are rarely conducted in such cases, as a result of official failures or obstruction, and Europe’s leaders have not intervened to ensure that the rule of law is upheld.
Another reason why Russia is keen to extend the hand of friendship to Turkey is the ongoing conflict in Syria, in which the Kremlin has intervened militarily to safeguard Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
In an atmosphere in which violent anarchists are not holding civil society hostage, the government has intervened to do so.
When France intervened in an African country in the past, there was no risk of terrorist attacks on its territory or on its citizens elsewhere in the world.
France opposed the war in Iraq in 2003; intervened militarily against Libya’s dictator, stopping a potential crime against humanity in March 2011; and saved a fragile democracy in Muslim-majority Mali in 2013.
The remaining third tried to have it both ways, arguing that governments intervened too much in some areas, and too little in others.
But abortion politics intervened, as Republican lawmakers, leading a congressional hearing on the Zika outbreak, made the funding conditional on anti-abortion policies in recipient countries.
Throughout the twentieth century, the US intervened repeatedly in Latin America to topple or subvert governments it did not like: in Cuba, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Guatemala, Haiti, El Salvador, Chile, and Grenada, to name only the most prominent cases.
Had America deployed troops to Rwanda early in that genocide, as innumerable critics (themselves silent at the time) argue retrospectively, dozens, maybe even hundreds, of Rwandans would likely have perished as the US intervened.
But, in the aftermath of setbacks in regions where it intervened, and with heightened economic distress at home, the US finds itself uncertain about how to respond to changing global events.
While some conflicts were addressed – the West finally intervened militarily in the former Yugoslavia; and Russia fought in Chechnya for almost a decade, and imposed peace in Transdniestria – others, such as that between Armenia and Azerbaijan, were simply frozen again.
To prevent the crash from triggering another Great Depression, governments intervened with massive taxpayer-funded bailouts, causing public-debt burdens to swell further, reaching unsustainable levels in many developed economies.
Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, conceded as much when he said in January that Damascus was 2-3 weeks from falling before Moscow intervened.
Our success with Operation Artemis, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the EU intervened in 2003 after violent clashes and a humanitarian crisis in Bunia, helped prepare us to mount our EUFOR operation in Chad and the Central African Republic and EUNAVFOR Somalia, which South Africa has expressed an interest in joining.
That role partly reflects the CCP’s birth in 1921 out of the violence and chaos that followed the collapse of the Qing Dynasty nine years earlier, as well as the three decades of civil war and Japanese colonization that intervened before the party took power in 1949.
Although the Hong Kong courts surely could have dealt with the issue themselves – under the “one country, two systems” framework, Hong Kong is assured an independent court system, in addition to the right to elect its own legislature – an enraged China intervened.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Lindbeck intervened in Swedish elections, invoked microeconomic theory against social democracy, and warned that high taxation and full employment led to disaster.
When Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi threatened to kill his rebellious detractors like “rats,” a UN coalition intervened under an emerging global doctrine: the responsibility to protect.
During the financial crisis and recession of 1825-1826, a central bank – the Bank of England – intervened in the interest of financial stability as the irrational exuberance of the boom turned into the remorseful pessimism of the bust.
There is no reason to believe that he intervened in Syria in order to aggravate the European refugee crisis.
The French and German governments intervened last year with capital injections to replace deserting shareholders.
But such logic vacillates in the face of realpolitik: the international community intervened, for example, when 2,000 Libyans might have been killed, but not when 115,000 Syrians actually were killed.
Convinced that the euro was undervalued, several central banks intervened in foreign exchange markets over the past two years to support it.
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) supported the ECB, but intervened on its own even earlier.
For example, interventions by the Bundesbank were more or less symmetrical, meaning that it intervened both when the dollar was very strong and when the dollar was very weak.
This asymmetry between the two central banks is best seen by comparing how their behavior when they intervened in the first half of the 1980s (Figure 1a).
Despite the advent of the European Central Bank, this asymmetry continues: while the ECB repeatedly tried to break the dollar's appreciation in 2000-2001 through consecutive interventions in the foreign exchange market, the Fed intervened only once.
Alternatively, it could have intervened by instituting planning regulations or imposing limits on mortgage loans.
In another era, the US might have intervened, with the president or perhaps another official, such as the secretary of state, meeting with Chinese authorities to demand Liu’s freedom.
The Swiss were concerned about the franc’s rise, especially against the euro, and intervened heavily in an attempt to hold it down.
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