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McCain’s advisors would do well to consider a historical precedent: the failed British attempt at World War I’s close to maintain a long-term military presence in Iraq.
Brexiteers did not invent this game; there is ample precedent, including Scotland in 2014 and Quebec in 1995.
Fortunately, there is also precedent for escaping populist takeovers.
Even if one admits that deception may sometimes be necessary, one can still ask about the importance of the goal, the availability of alternative means to achieve it, whether the deception is likely to spread through precedent or example, the damage done to various victims, and the deceivers’ accountability (whether their behavior can be discovered and explained later).
There is precedent for such a bold move.
Another obstacle is the fear that, by allowing SOEs, yet again, to escape market discipline, debt-equity swaps would set a dangerous precedent.
Did no Western policymaker heed the warnings of responsible Russian politicians that NATO’s bombing of Belgrade in 1999 and Kosovo’s subsequent detachment from Serbia – both in violation of international law and the UN Charter – might set a dangerous precedent?
These are major events, since there is no precedent for 11 independent and sovereign countries combining to create a new international currency with a single monetary policy and single monetary authority.
To strip him of his post negates a basic pillar of democracy and sets a dangerous precedent.
It was probably inevitable that Kadyrov’s increasing power would worry the Kremlin, especially after the Kremlin itself created a precedent for secession by recognizing the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia of the war with Georgia of 2008.
The most recent precedent was the bipartisan agreement reached earlier this year on another fiscal issue that threatened to disrupt the normal functioning of government: the absence of a formally approved budget for this year.
There is historical precedent for a change of similar magnitude.
The problem is the precedent that the case establishes for resolving future international debt crises.
A finding of discrimination would establish a landmark legal precedent, putting core values of non-discrimination and equal justice beyond dispute at a time when Europe’s politicians consider how best to absorb millions of new immigrants and minority members.
At the UNFCCC conference next week, some governments will hold up the FCTC as a strong precedent to argue that the fossil-fuel industry must be excluded from ongoing climate negotiations, owing to its conflicts of interest with sound climate policy.
A restructuring of Greece’s official debt, despite offering short-term benefits, would weaken that framework in the long run by setting a precedent for exceptions, with other eurozone countries, sooner or later, requesting the same concession.
These events are not without precedent.
If he fails to make the system work for more of the electorate, France could well go the way of the US, setting a dangerous precedent for the rest of Europe.
A good precedent in Italy is Carlo Ciampi, who took the reins of government in 1993, after Italy was forced to drop out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, and managed to repeal the scala mobile (the wage-indexation system), beat down inflation, and re-board the train of European monetary integration.
An Egyptian precedent would bring awareness and sobriety to an entire generation of lenders that is not accustomed to considering this type of risk, and that may even be unfamiliar with the doctrine of odious debt.
But, after that, they will be surrounded by powerful neighbors that will, one expects, be hostile toward them – not least because of the precedent Kurdish independence sets.
Trump broke with precedent in another way: he chose a non-economist.
There is no precedent anywhere in the world that suggests that such a two-tier process can succeed.
Without question (and without much precedent), interest rates are extraordinarily low in advanced economies, pulled down partly by the slowdown in longer-term output growth, but also as a consequence of official efforts.
But Trump had already successfully bullied the deputy attorney general who is supervising the investigation into sharing highly sensitive information with his allies on Capitol Hill, upending all precedent.
But the episode sets a dangerous precedent.
An Agenda for Latin AmericaDuring the last three years, Latin America has experienced an economic boom without precedent.
At the beginning of the current credit crunch, many historically minded people picked 1907 as the key precedent.
But, in attempting to avoid future tragedies, these countries may have set a dangerous precedent.
Roosevelt’s lies in 1941 were intended to awaken the American people, but he also set a precedent that Lyndon B. Johnson could use in 1964 to win congressional support for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which led to a dramatic escalation of the Vietnam War.
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