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After a year of negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo, President Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin rejected the UN mediator’s report recommending supervised independence, prevented the Security Council from accepting that report, and insisted on three additional months of negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo – even after compromise became impossible.
That aid saved many lives and prevented a slow-motion replay of the 2011 drought, when delayed international action resulted in nearly 260,000 deaths.
To many observers, Saudi Arabia finally seemed to have a leader who would confront the entrenched interests that had long prevented the country from modernizing.
They should almost thank the French for their inability to impose effective austerity measures and thereby still run a small current-account deficit, which has prevented the eurozone surplus from becoming even larger.
Moreover, we have come to believe that most diseases, including previously hopeless conditions, can be prevented, cured, ameliorated, or controlled by scientific medicine, and that even those patients unlikely to benefit have a right to medical care.
In November, for example, King and a group of his followers disrupted a gathering of Palestinian and Israeli peace activists by shouting into a megaphone that Arabs should go to Gaza or Beirut; only police intervention prevented a riot.
They were confident that Americans would forget how the Republicans’ deregulatory zeal had brought the economy to the brink of ruin, and that voters had not noticed how their intransigence in Congress had prevented more effective policies from being pursued in the wake of the 2008 crisis.
But in a post-Brexit world, Frankfurt and Paris would no longer be prevented from imposing measures that favored their banks and exchanges over London’s.
They should have been reined in, but the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 prevented the regulation of derivatives.
And only frenetic action by the Federal Reserve and Treasury (with authorities around the world joining) prevented a systemic meltdown.
Should healthy people be discouraged, if not prevented, from implanting devices in themselves?
For starters, a Greek exit from the eurozone may have been only postponed, not prevented, as pension and other structural reforms put the country on a collision course with its European creditors.
When the global economy is back on its feet, there will be no political appetite for change – until the inevitable disaster that could have been prevented.
As a result, far from helping the poor, the Aadhaar scheme has prevented many poor people from claiming their Public Distribution System (ration) supplies – a violation of their rights.
But the exclusive focus on economic indicators has prevented consideration of the geopolitical implications of a US domestic trend that is also frequently discussed, but by a separate group of experts: America’s ever-increasing rates of severe mental disease (which have already been very high for a long time).
In 2005, the Indian Cabinet’s Committee on Economic Affairs prevented, on due diligence grounds and at the last moment, the overseas arm of ONGC Videsh from entering into a $2 billion deal for a stake in a Nigerian oil block.
In recent years, the Palestinian Authority has effectively prevented acts of terrorism and violence against Israelis, with the aim of stabilizing the situation in the West Bank in order to prepare for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
That raises two additional questions: Might a pro-active Fed have prevented the crisis from occurring in the first place?
On monetary policy, the European Central Bank’s forward guidance – the commitment to keep interest rates at a low level for a long time – is too little too late and has not prevented a rise in short- and long-term borrowing costs, which could stifle the eurozone’s already-anemic economic recovery.
The world could not have prevented Yugoslavia’s spiral into civil war, but it might have made it less cruel by helping to negotiate terms of separation earlier.
Second, there is Article 4 of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1967, which spells out a process by which the vice president and cabinet can act to replace a president who has died or is prevented by reasons of health from governing.
Only the Polish Constitution prevented an outright ban.
A second explanation is that Japan’s economic structure became rigid because vested interests, especially in construction and services, prevented structural changes.
A partial, little-recognized explanation of Japan’s sluggishness in the 1990s is that export-led recovery was prevented by America and Europe.
In the nineteenth century, the joint interests of the authoritarian Russian, German, and Austrian Empires prevented the establishment of a free Poland: such unholy alliances have no place in the twenty-first century.
The geostrategic constraints that have prevented Kurdish independence for centuries are even more acute today.
The particular problems that prevented us from observing the returns on these stock markets will never be repeated, but it is wrong to assume that problems of that scale will not recur.
Had the former Yugoslavia been a NATO member, this would not necessarily have prevented the disintegration of the country into several sovereign republics.
But it would in all probability have prevented dissolution turning into bloody conflict.
Last year, Horst Teltschick, for many years foreign and security adviser to Germany’s Chancellor Kohl and now a successful businessman, suggested in a debate on why the West failed in Yugoslavia that the disaster might have been prevented by membership in the Union.
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