Separation
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It is clear that the outcome would have been different if the Dutch Battalion, regardless of its legalistic mandate and inferior power, would have threatened the Serbs with resisting the
separation
of Muslim men from Muslim women.
Reviving a Policy MarriageWASHINGTON, DC – Not long ago, the
separation
of financial supervision and monetary policy was in vogue in many countries.
Policy harmonization, rather than separation, seems to be the key to happy cyclical endings.
But while she has indicated that the UK will pursue a “hard Brexit” – a clean
separation
from the EU – she has also emphasized how important both the EU and NATO are to the European and global security framework.
Glass-Steagall aimed to prevent commercial banks from gambling with their depositors’ money by mandating the institutional
separation
of retail and investment banking.
The Big Bang of 1986 in London ended the
separation
of banking functions in the United Kingdom.
In the UK, an Independent Commission on Banking, headed by Sir John Vickers, rejected
separation
of retail from investment banking, recommending instead “ring-fencing” deposits from the investment arms of universal banks.
Whether relying on regulation, or gesturing towards institutional separation, most proposals for banking reform remain at the drawing-board stage, and are sure to be emasculated by financial lobbies.
Recent developments in a number of member states have challenged foundational EU principles such as the rule of law and the
separation
of powers.
Ironically, these territories were reunited by Israel’s victory in the 1967 war, after 19 years of
separation.
Both boldness and consensus are urgently needed, and those who doubt that Europe is capable of either can take heart from two recent European Commission decisions: a politically ambitious proposal to force the complete
separation
of networks of pipelines and wires from the companies that supply gas and electricity; and a proposal that Gazprom and other non-EU businesses can control Union energy assets only if they meet tough new conditions, including reciprocal access to, say, Russia’s market for EU energy companies.
This
separation
long symbolized America’s unusual history of bank regulation – probably the most unusual in the developed world.
Ring-fencing is not exactly Glass-Steagall-style
separation
– Glass-Steagall forbade commercial banks from even affiliating with investment banks – but it is in the same spirit.
According to the ruling, Trump’s order violates the Constitution’s
separation
of powers clause, due-process guarantees, and the Tenth Amendment, which states that, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The mechanisms for funding HIV/AIDS research reinforce this separation, because they rarely allow for – much less invite – the kind of innovative cross-field approaches that will be needed to translate recent breakthroughs into testable products.
But we should not confuse these values with the other essential elements of progress, such as establishing liberalized trade regimes, creating institutional structures with a
separation
of powers, and rooting out corruption.
Some countries have a state church (United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Greece), some, like France, assert their secularism, and some combine
separation
of church and state with special treatment for certain denominations (Spain, Italy, Ireland, Sweden, and Portugal) or otherwise provide such recognition (Germany, Belgium, Austria, Luxemburg).But in reality, EU countries have more in common than what can be inferred from those differences.
Most recently, Trump has championed the heartless
separation
of migrant children from their parents.
Consider, for example, his repeated claims that the vague outcome of his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un constitutes an end to the nuclear threat posed by Kim’s regime, or his blatant lie that Democrats, rather than his own policies, caused the forced
separation
of migrant children from their parents at the southern border with Mexico.
Of course, if all parts of a nation accept separation, creation of a new national state need not be resisted by the world community.
So the world community must resist unilateral efforts at
separation
because separatism today is much more dangerous than during the post-colonial era due to the twin evils of international terrorism and religious extremism.
It consists of respect for the unique human being and humanity's freedoms, rights and dignity; the principle of solidarity; the rule of law and equality before the law; protection of minorities; democratic institutions;
separation
of legislative, executive and judicial powers; political pluralism; respect for private ownership and private enterprise, and a market economy; and the furtherance of civil society.
To create the conditions for long-term stability, a negotiated
separation
may be needed, comparable to the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the war in former Yugoslavia.
A peaceful
separation
agreement would require international peacekeepers with contributions from many powers, including Islamic states, India, China, and Japan.
But on the night of November 9th, when the wall and the barbed wire which had failed to irrevocably divide Germans over many decades of bitter
separation
began to crumble, communism's collapse became irreversible.
As the experience in Yugoslavia showed, when ethnic or religious cleavages explode, the most effective path to peace may well be
separation.
Many academics and pundits have castigated regulators and central bankers for their inability to understand the obvious attractions of so-called “narrow banking,” a restoration of Glass-Steagall-era
separation
of commercial and investment/merchant banking, or dramatically higher capital requirements.
Glass-Steagall detains the Commission for rather longer, but also comes up short: “the costs of full
separation
could be higher than is necessary to address the problems,” owing in part to potential “economies of scope between retail and wholesale/investment banking services.”
Moreover, “full
separation
would remove all intra-bank diversification benefits and so eliminate the possibility that one part of the group could save another part.”
But neither the Kremlin nor its North Caucasian allies are ready for formal
separation.
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