Second, is whether "the global rule book" about military intervention in sovereign states must be adjusted.
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We examine how such public intervention in sovereign debt crises affects efficiency, ex ante and ex post.
What about the fact that the United Nations Charter outlaws aggression against or intervention in sovereign countries without Security Council authorization?
Mr. Stark resigned at the end of 2011 because he had opposed the bank's intervention in sovereign bond markets.
At the same time, China is fearful of America's global domination and might, and generically opposes virtually all military intervention in sovereign countries.
Here's Lagarde's official statement: We strongly welcome the ECB's new framework, the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT), for intervention in sovereign bond markets of countries accepting EFSF and ESM support for their macroeconomic adjustment programs and adhering to the associated structural and fiscal reform efforts.
The recent past contains several examples of military intervention against sovereign states where the outcome, if not ideal, has certainly been much better in humanitarian terms than what went before: Vietnam's removal of Pol Pot from Cambodia; Nato's Kosovo campaign, with the subsequent indictment of Slobodan Milosevic; the removal of the Taliban from Afghanistan.
Abby Martin, who presents a programme from America called Breaking The Set for Russia Today, told viewers she was "strongly against any state intervention in sovereign nations' affairs".
