Finally, some of the central tenets of the new paternalism apply more forcefully to interventionism.
Their latest grand idea to create Franco-German industrial champions has already been mocked as flag-waving interventionism.
They have real-life experience with the cost of regulations and the abuses of government interventionism.
When the incentives are systematically distorted by interventionism and loose monetary policy, the prices are lying.
The fundamental difference between David and myself is the question of interventionism and foreign affairs.
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Tinkering interventionism was out and union reform (long overdue), privatization, competition, sound public finances and low taxes were in.
Democracy and human rights should replace nationalism, non-interventionism and a knee-jerk anti-Americanism as the values inspiring Mexican foreign policy, he argued.
"Promoted by the advantages of high technology, a certain country in the West has sought hegemony, neo-interventionism and neo-economic colonialism, " he said.
What is most important to establish and remember is that a passion for military non-interventionism is not alien to respectable American politics.
There are no suggestions that the GOP should rethink its penchant for military interventionism and the bloated defense spending that inevitably accompanies this.
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The government promises businesses support but no interference - a policy of "positive non-interventionism" vital to its role as a financial and trading center.
The intervention in the former Yugoslavia was also a message for the Muslim community that French interventionism was not inspired by the crusade spirit.
The Clinton we have grown accustomed to over the last year is perceived as a spear-carrier for the Madeleine Albright school of values-driven liberal interventionism.
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The last GOP Congress funded the creation of Homeland Security, funded blatant foreign interventionism in Iraq , and continued the grossly ineffective border control policies of the past.
And though Mr Blair had bolder ideas on foreign policy (such as the liberal interventionism he espoused in his Chicago speech of 1999), they contributed to his downfall.
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Neither interventionism nor isolationism is an effective foreign policy strategy.
"The so-called policy of positive non-interventionism before the handover was actually a policy of no commitment and no planning, " says Tsang Shu-ki, economics professor at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Just as enforcing personal morality seems to be a unifying principle behind many conservative appeals for government interventionism, liberals seem to be driven by a desire to reverse perceived power imbalances.
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In sharp contrast to his active interventionism against US-allied regimes, President Barack Obama has prominently refused to intervene in Syria, where the fate of a US foe hangs in the balance.
The real action will be at the state level, already a hotbed of interventionism that is likely to grow more so now that Washington is split and Democrats have firmer control in state capitals.
While many chose to criticise US interventionism, particularly in the Bush era, it appears that many European countries prefer to avoid entangling themselves in foreign trouble spots unless the US is in the lead.
They also undermine arguments for interventionism more generally.
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What Mitt Romney gave Americans in the final debate mostly, though not entirely, about foreign policy was a variation on the same neoliberal theme served up by Barack Obama: occasional interventionism, occasional multilateralism, occasional tough-guy signaling, and occasional coalition-building.
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