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Although the Baltic republics merely reestablished their pre-WWII independence, and Yugoslavia's breakup was a bloody affair like so many other wars of independence, there is something tantalizing new in all this as well.
Malaysia has earned worldwide condemnation for its handling of the Anwar affair, and Thailand has lost many international friends since its latest coup, reflected in a humiliating loss in its recent bid for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council.
So far, Xi’s campaign has remained a conventional affair involving selective prosecution.
The succession was always strictly a family affair, and any disputes remained behind closed doors.
Today’s flux in the Middle East is a highly ambivalent affair, because the situation can improve or (more likely) deteriorate.
Its introduction was viewed as a technocratic affair, to be handled by central bankers and finance ministers, not as the cornerstone of a common European identity.
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – The debt crisis in Europe is no longer a European affair.
Indeed, 2017 may mark the end of the region’s nuclear love affair – and the start of a new one with renewables.
This probably goes back to the Dreyfus affair of the late nineteenth century.
Second, any transition to new prime movers is an inherently prolonged affair, taking decades to accomplish.
Politics, or at least the exercise of power, was traditionally a family affair.
Without presenting any facts, Voinea suggested that the former president might have engaged directly in arranging the "terrorist affair."
His opponents cavalierly dismiss the affair, with the deputy head of President Leonid Kuchma's administration suggesting that Yushchenko should hire a food taster.
Think of the lamentable response by US President Bill Clinton’s administration to the Rwandan genocide in 1994 or Australia’s shameful rejection of asylum-seeking boat people in the Tampa affair under John Howard’s government a decade ago.
The United States led the world into the television age, and the implications can be seen most directly in America’s long love affair with what Harlan Ellison memorably called “the glass teat.”
Indeed, political change in the Middle East will increasingly become an internal affair in 2010 and beyond.
Of course, Russia provides far more headline-grabbling examples of political and human rights problems, such as the low-grade war in Chechnya or the Yukos affair.
As to the Yukos affair, my office cannot intervene in any legal process until it is completed.
We withdraw into our shells, assuring ourselves that this or that is not our affair.
The entrance of Venezuela into the Brazilian bloc, Brazilian leadership at the United Nations mission in Haiti, and Brazil’s role in the Honduran affair are all part of this emerging competition.
The Great Recession was turbo-charged by a financial crisis, making it a far more insidious affair that typically has far more long-lasting effects.
Indeed, Argentina’s sovereign default happened almost simultaneously with the demise of the currency board, but corporate renegotiations were a protracted affair.
The realization of this historical truth, which the Wikileaks affair has brought home, is now troubling today’s invaders.
Yet the strangest aspect of the Assange affair is the deafening silence on the part of those actors and institutions whose existence and legitimacy emanates from the completeness of the rule of law.
Indeed, the most important book that a student of America can read right now to understand today’s malignant political climate is Ruth Harris’ admirable new look at the Dreyfus affair, The Man on Devil’s Island.
Can we hope that the Grameen affair will be a prelude to the fight for the liberal reforms that will transform the Bangladeshi economy?
The summit itself tends to be a tightly scripted affair.
The Khobragade affair suggests, however, that all of this is not enough: sustaining a strategic partnership requires, above all, mutual respect.
But, if such a merger is to be the first step toward consolidating the European banking sector and strengthening the EU, it should be a cross-border affair, bringing Deutsche Bank together with a significant French and/or Italian financial institution.
The other reason for the European love affair with Obama is that he is seen as something more than an American.
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