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Effective opposition at home means that the government would no longer be able to acquiesce in the dead of night to various rescue operations for Germany’s EU partners.
According to Jean-Marie Guehenno, the head of UN peacekeeping operations, any hybrid force must be “robust” because of the “very challenging” situation in Darfur.
Many Western governments, however, refuse to place their forces under AU command, owing to its perceived weaknesses, and have conditioned further support for peacekeeping operations in Darfur on the UN’s assuming control.
At the same time, the complex chain of command envisaged for an AU-UN force recalls some of the worst features of NATO-UN operations in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990’s.
But, increasingly, innovative startups operating in a mobile, globalized world will find that they can circumvent constraints in one location by shifting some or all of their assets or operations to another.
When then-US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson decided not to bail out Lehman, the firm filed for bankruptcy and quickly sold off its brokerage operations.
Indeed, none of Russia's power structures, including the military, the FSB, and the MVD, are capable of performing effective anti-terrorist operations.
Some military analysts saw this as the beginning, at long last, of serious reforms, as the army was capable only of executing military operations in Russia's traditional way, i.e., using overwhelming force, as in WWII.
But it is individual training and the ability to make split-second decisions in a fluid situation that are required in anti-terrorist operations.
It suggested, instead, that the army should play a secondary role in anti-terrorist operations.
The internal conditions of the "power" ministries - the FSB and the MVD, which bear the main responsibility for antiterrorist operations - are equally grim.
As for Trump, while he has pressed China to change its trade policies, he has given Xi a pass on the South China Sea, taking only symbolic steps – such as freedom of navigation operations – against Chinese expansionism.
Roughly 75% of China’s food is now produced by small, private, and un-licensed operations that are difficult to regulate.
The company’s operations are polarizing – Uber has been the subject of protests and strikes around the world (mainly in Europe) – yet it was recently valued at a stratospheric $18 billion.
Yet its constitution severely constrains its ability to send combat units for the Security Council’s peacekeeping operations.
What makes matters worse is that the state authorities, particularly the police, patrol these slave operations to keep them running.
The first step toward making SDRs a more active force in global finance would be to remove the division between SDR accounts and normal IMF operations.
A better approach would be to allow countries to “deposit” unused SDRs in the Fund, so that they can be used to finance IMF lending operations.
The internal contradictions of Pakistan's volte face are now being exposed as the army's bloody encounters with Al-Qaida become more frequent, casualties mount, and hostile tribal reaction to joint US/Pakistani search-and-destroy operations on the western border increases.
In contrast to a steam engine or an old-fashioned automobile, whose operations were easily comprehensible, modern automobiles or airplanes are so complicated that their operators have no idea how the technology they are using actually works.
Sometimes individual Iranian officials may have acted on their own to order and coordinate specific operations; they will now feel freer to do so.
When a central bank reduces long-term interest rates via current and expected future open-market operations, it does not prevent potential lenders from offering to lend at higher interest rates; nor does it stop borrowers from taking up such an offer.
They would also risk being drawn into renewed Israeli operations against Hezbollah and its backers.
Finally, there is the problem of limited resources for international peacekeeping operations in Africa – always with disastrous results.
One Brazilian startup’s tax-management software, for example, can perform in seconds operations that would demand thousands of billable hours from an army of accountants.
This might reflect temporary factors, like the Japanese tsunami, which disrupted supply chains and caused some factories to suspend operations.
To be sure, under such a system, countries would still compete for investment and corporate operations by lowering their corporate-tax rates.
Some of it is a destructive transfer from consumers to shareholders as corporations gain more monopoly power, some of it is an improvement in efficiency from better management and more appropriately scaled operations, and some of it is overpayment by those who become irrationally exuberant when companies get their names in the news.
Unsurprisingly, migrant women are often victims of human trafficking, finding themselves enslaved as laborers, prostitutes, or participants in organized begging operations.
How the end of US-led combat operations shapes Afghanistan’s future will affect the security of countries nearby and beyond.
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