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When we resort to psychologically comforting but misleading assumptions about terrorism, we hamper our own understanding of political violence in general – and hence weaken our ability to avert or minimize it.
Hence, nationalist politicians often resort to nostalgic rhetoric to mobilize their older supporters.
Subsidies to the most vulnerable should remain a last resort.
But that is a last resort geared toward preserving the Irish peace process.
Because Congress refused to normalize US-Cuba relations by repealing the US embargo, Obama was forced to resort to legally reversible executive orders to loosen restrictions on travel, remittances, and trade and investment.
The International Monetary Fund and the G7 countries’ central banks must act as global lenders of last resort and provide ample liquidity – quickly and with few strings attached – to support emerging markets’ currencies.
If products such as glyphosate and 2,4-D were to become unavailable, farmers would be forced to resort to other methods to control weeds – none of them as efficient.
But it does not have automatic access to a European lender of last resort.
Ignorance of the law has become an excuse to flout it, and to engage in ethically dubious behavior, such as inviting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to his Mar-a-Lago resort, or attacking the department store Nordstrom for dropping his daughter Ivanka’s clothing line.
Moreover, with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad remaining as Iran’s president, the West will once again resort to its usual method of dealing with unfriendly regimes: impose more sanctions.
But in a financial crisis, weakened banks cannot lend, meaning that the government must serve as the lender of last resort.
In exchange for the US assuming the responsibilities of system maintenance, serving as market of last resort, and accepting the international role of the dollar, its key economic partners, Western Europe and Japan, acquiesced in the special privileges enjoyed by the US – seigniorage gains, domestic macroeconomic-policy autonomy, and balance-of-payments flexibility.
The idea is that the US government will serve as buyer of last resort for the junk debt that the private sector has not been able to price.
One of the normal roles of a central bank is to be a “lender of last resort” when bank failures threaten to destabilize the banking system and the economy.
When Swedish, Finish, Spanish, and French banks faced crises in the past decade, their respective central banks exercised the function of lenders of last resort.
Under EMU, there will be no longer be Spanish or Swedish central banks with the credit-granting authority to be lender of last resort.
My guess is that the ECB is not an effective lender of last resort, because it will face too many internal obstacles to quick action.
The combination of a banking sector squeeze with a paralyzed or ineffective lender of last resort is a potentially very dangerous combination.
The international community has long agreed that trade wars pose a direct threat to the global trading system, and thus should be used only as a measure of last resort (and usually through multilateral institutions).
Heavy-handed diplomatic pressure – such as threats to exclude Russia from the G8 – must be a weapon of last resort.
Thanks to “reinforced cooperation,” recalcitrant states will no longer hinder those seeking to make progress, and could even resort to an “opt-out” process and “liberate” themselves from the EU, perhaps by means of a referendum.
Indeed, policymakers nowadays seem genuinely disinclined to resort to tariff increases.
If they are faced with criticism that they deem unfair, they will resort to the kind of truculence and bitterness that has long thwarted efforts to reach an agreement.
As a result, there was only limited resort to protectionism.
Meanwhile in Tunisia, the Islamic State has targeted tourists – orchestrating attacks on a museum and a beach resort.
Unilateral resort to trade restrictions, by making diplomatic cooperation more difficult, complicated efforts to mobilize a coalition of the willing to contain the Nazi threat.
Despite several weeks of intense US pressure to soften - or even retract - the proposed law, China’s leaders did little more than attempt to reinforce their position that “non-peaceful” (i.e., military) measures would serve strictly as a last resort - which had already been assumed anyway.
A number of vocal critics, notably Joseph Stiglitz and Jeffrey Sachs, bemoan the Fund's (almost) reflexive resort to fiscal and monetary austerity.
As Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation continues to raise the emotional and political pressure on Trump, the president’s temptation to resort to war could rise dramatically.
Why resort to such elaborate and costly measures against political/religious opponents when simpler methods of neutralizing them - such as execution or imprisonment - are available to dictators?
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