The Last Interventionist

Those exposed to the World War II scenario made more interventionist recommendations than the others.

Rejecting the dominant interventionist paradigm and tendencies as a real threat to the world community

For many, the crisis was final proof that inward oriented growth strategies and interventionist policies could not extract developing countries from the mire of poverty and underdevelopment.

Success will largely depend upon our collective courage to question the feasibility and practicality not to mention the legality and rationality of the dominant interventionist paradigm and tendencies.

Indeed, confronted by political leaders hostile rhetoric, oil producers have a strong incentive to increase production in order to lower oil prices to levels that undermine the economic feasibility of alternative energy sources a logical interventionist policy to counter the anti oil interventionist policies of consuming countries. After all, a collapse in oil prices would be a death sentence for several new energy technologies, and, not incidentally, would increase demand for oil.

In May, Hungarian reformers began tearing down the fence along their border with Austria a hole in the Iron Curtain. In Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachev spoke of a Common European House and repudiated the interventionist Brezhnev Doctrine.

Blair is the last interventionist. Neither his successor, Gordon Brown, nor George W. Bush s successor, whoever he or she turns out to be, will be able to mount another intervention similar to that in Kosovo, let alone Iraq.

In fact, Clinton was deeply moved by Jibril s testimony, riveted by the horror of the regime s tanks grinding toward Benghazi at that very moment. In the hours that follow, she convinces Obama not to bow to his anti interventionist secretary of defense, Robert Gates.

If that mood is to become an issue in the 2016 presidential campaign, as early campaign rhetoric suggests, Americans should drop the false debate about isolationism and instead address three fundamental questions about the future of the country s foreign policy How much? How interventionist?

In view of the similarities between those historical precedents and current conditions in Saudi Arabia, we ought not to rule out the possibility of reform. Now survey data, too, suggest that Saudis may well begin demanding a more transparent politics and a less interventionist religion.

The recent decision by the European Court of First Instance to uphold the fine and sanctions the European Commission imposed upon Microsoft in 2004 appears to have justified the Commission s interventionist approach to competition policy. A five year investigation of Intel may also end with severe penalties.

Doubtless, we will learn more about Blair s justifications for what he did, and further articulations of his interventionist creed, when he goes on the lecture circuit and, in due course, publishes his memoirs. The pathos of his situation, though, is that no one is listening anymore.

In 2015, though, this behavioral difference has been less pronounced than usual. One reason is that emerging market energy importers have a much larger global economic footprint than they did in the 1980s, and their approach to oil markets is much more interventionist than in the advanced countries.

Today we must all recognize that, despite the significant changes in the international political scene, we continue to live under permanent and persistent evidence of new threats, against which we must adopt a more vigorous and interventionist position to prevent excesses that could jeopardize the survival of mankind and of nature itself.

The long term systemic impact of China s interventionist approach may be even more serious than the stock market s current decline. Few want to invest in a market where the government can change the rules of the game at any time, especially if they have had first hand experience of being blocked from trading at a crucial moment.

Therefore, any license for pre emptive measures which are essentially based on gauging intentions rather than objective facts, and are in fact a modern manifestation of the interventionist and war mongering tendencies of the past is in blatant contradiction to the very foundations of the United Nations and to the letter and spirit of its Charter.

Ms. Ramos (American Association of Jurists) said that the organization of which she was a member was deeply committed to the exercise by all peoples of their right to self determination and to fighting imperialism and colonialism, as it believed that most conflicts in Latin America, the Caribbean and throughout the world arose from interventionist policies.

More important, governments have abandoned the goal of full employment as a result, all of those bits of interventionist policy previously thought necessary to keep economic activity on an even keel have gone by the wayside as well. The New Economics may be temporarily resurrected to deal with extreme situations, but policymakers no longer take precautions to prevent extreme situations from arising.

True, some Chinese scholars remain inclined to argue that the entire R2P enterprise particularly its sanction of military action in exceptional cases is just old neo interventionist wine in a new bottle. But this did not appear to be a majority sentiment, nor did it stop anyone from engaging in lively discussion of how the R2P doctrine could be most effectively implemented in practice.

Initially serving as the president of the first post Derg government, and then as Ethiopia s prime minister from 1995 until his death, Meles (his nom de guerre in the revolution) oversaw 7.7 annual GDP growth in recent years. Strong economic performance is somewhat surprising, given his party s interventionist policy approach, but Meles showed himself to be a consummate pragmatist in attracting investment particularly from China to drive growth.