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That is just one reason why an invasion of the caliphate, with local armies supported by Western airstrikes, could have devastating unintended consequences – think of George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq.
The formal rejection of the Iran-EU nuclear agreement in February 2005 was an unintended gift to Iran’s hardliners, led by Ahmadinejad.
An unintended, but not unexpected, consequence of monetary easing has been sharp increases in cross-border capital flows.
Socially, the relative hardship in the US Rust Belt, where support for Trump was integral to his victory, is an unintended consequence of a rapidly expanding global labor market that leaves workers almost everywhere vulnerable – even in emerging economies whose workers have seemed like the “winners” of globalization in recent decades.
(Indeed, with alarm bells sounding throughout the region, the United States’ “pivot to Asia,” widely derided for its clumsy rollout and unintended consequences, now seems wise and prudent.)
But the solutions on offer reflect an inadequate understanding of the problem – and could have negative unintended consequences.
Fiscal deficits, like unwanted pregnancies, are the unintended consequence of actions taken by more than one person who had other objectives in mind.
One priority is to ensure that large, new infusions of aid do not produce unintended economic outcomes, such as rapid currency appreciation or inflation, which would make recipient countries’ exports less competitive.
This is not an unintended consequence of an otherwise well-intentioned policy; it is the explicit goal of US trade policy.
They may also have the unintended benefit of shifting a key policy debate in a more productive direction.
But his policies have already caused severe unintended consequences.
We cannot go on reacting to crises as they arise in the Balkans, especially as our actions can have such severe unintended and adverse consequences.
The possibility of such an asymmetrical global rebalancing – with China taking the lead and the developed world dragging its feet – could be the key unintended consequence of China’s 12th Five-Year Plan.
The only law that Congress cannot repeal is the law of unintended consequences.
But centralized, one-size-fits-all monetary policies cannot counteract booms or busts reliably, and often have unintended consequences.
For these reasons, more than 50% of pregnancies in Latin America are unintended.
The problem with legal measures, however, is that they can have pernicious side effects and unintended consequences, especially when they are tailored to a particular crisis.
Indeed, the debates’ high ratings had the unintended consequence of allowing the Socialist party to dominate France’s media landscape for weeks.
The Retreat of Global DemocracyA nasty, unintended side-effect of globalization is its corrosive effect on democracy.
The Chilcot report found that the case for invading Iraq was made on the “basis of flawed intelligence,” that the resources committed did not meet the stated goals, and that interveners failed to plan for unintended consequences.
Hydropower offers one of the clearest examples of how the location of renewable energy infrastructure can have unintended consequences.
There is always the danger of actions with unintended consequences, especially as both countries can be expected to maneuver to change the framework and reduce their vulnerabilities.
The Ukrainian crisis may prove helpful, though that appears less likely now – which may be a good thing to the extent that one unintended consequence could be a loan to Ukraine that is larger than it really needs.
Syria may well become a second Iraq, not by design but as an unintended consequence of current policy.
Conceived as a long-overdue shift in resources and attention from wars and other urgent challenges in the Middle East toward the vast expanse of opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region, America’s much-vaunted strategic pivot immediately ran into a gauntlet of unintended consequences (the handmaidens of inconsistent and poorly articulated policy).
Coming as it did on the eve of the cataclysmic Arab Spring, the Obama administration has struggled with this unintended consequence of the pivot ever since.
In the West, the priority accorded to the individualist self-regarding norms underlying the Washington Consensus created a nurturing environment for growth in corruption, inequality, and mistrust in governing elites – the unintended consequences of rational-choice, me-first premises.
But any pickup of wage growth in Germany will bring about an unintended benefit: a much-needed convergence of unit labor costs in the eurozone.
For better or worse, they will not be restrained by the same fear of unintended consequences when it comes to change and experimentation.
In the case of the environment, command-and-control regulation is inefficient, discourages innovation, and can have unintended consequences (like Europe’s growing reliance on coal).
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