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On the Chinese side, under Xi Jinping’s assertive leadership, the government is no longer heeding Deng Xiaoping’s injunction that the country should “hide its strength, bide its time, and never take the lead” in international affairs.
The involvement of the world's major power in the affairs of Europe renders the difference of power between European countries less relevant and hence more tolerable.
The answer: neitner side is ready to grant the other what is the essence institutions: a formal say in its own affairs.
Earlier this month, the former actor and comedian John Ford revealed that for 15 years, from 1995 to 2010, he was employed by Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times newspaper to hack and blag his way into the private affairs of dozens of prominent people, including then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
As this struggle shows, Ukraine has been obliged to assume a higher-profile role in European affairs.
It must consider where and in what sort of Europe it fits, what balance it should strike between Russia and the European Union, and how it should find the self-assurance needed to play its full part in world affairs.
In security affairs, as well, the "Fortress" metaphor no longer applies.
While Chirac took a keen interest in world affairs, Sarkozy, by both inclination and political calculus, will concentrate, at least initially – and in the absence of a major international crisis – on internal matters.
On July 6, Greece announced that it had “irrefutable evidence” that Russia was trying to undermine the Prespa agreement, by attempting to buy off officials and otherwise intervening in Greece’s internal affairs.
But even when pressed, Putin’s Russia will not acknowledge that it opposes Greek-Macedonian rapprochement, let alone apologize for taking active measures to interfere in Greek and Macedonian domestic affairs.
Germany’s approach to policymaking on European affairs is often somewhat schizophrenic, by turns brutal and subtle.
The velvet glove is in evidence at the SWP’s meeting, which is animated by the German intelligentsia’s persuasive and thoughtful approach to EU affairs.
For Europe to turn down Turkey would be tantamount to writing ourselves out of any serious script in global affairs.
But, with the US and China regarding each another warily in the foreground of world affairs, where does Europe fit in?
If the US were to play a relatively smaller role in world affairs, and no other system was created to pick up the slack, these values could be at risk.
But, although America has been far from perfect over the last six decades, the end of the pax Americana has the potential to create a dangerous void in international affairs.
It is remarkable that some of the most critical concepts of Muslim religious terminology have now become part of the international language of current affairs.
Though Russian President Vladimir Putin’s immediate goal may have been limited to regaining control of Crimea and retaining some influence in Ukrainian affairs, his longer-term ambition is much bolder.
And, once members give up their sovereignty over fiscal, banking, and economic affairs, they may eventually need a partial political union to ensure democratic legitimacy.
Give the local community enough control over its own affairs, Tocqueville argued, and one “will see at a glance…the close tie which unites private to general interest.”
In cases where groups cohabit a state uneasily, it may be possible to allow a degree of autonomy in the determination of internal affairs.
Yet they seem to share a fundamental indecisiveness in their approach to world affairs.
I first met Putin in October 1999 in Helsinki, when I was attending a European Union-Russia summit as the EU’s external affairs commissioner.
Despite his relative inexperience in international affairs, Obama showed a similar skill in reacting to a complex set of foreign-policy challenges.
Brazil, the regional powerhouse, always viewed it as a counterweight to the United States in hemispheric affairs.
But he will also need to entice the West into becoming more pro-active and the US in particular into re-establishing its role as a constructive rather than destructive force in human rights affairs.
With today’s emphasis on military action in the so-called “war on terror,” the need for a conference to discuss security and military affairs, combined with a stability charter, has become urgent.
This level of transparency – which, in some cases, would amount to “naming and shaming” – could transform how companies manage their financial affairs.
Ominous examples of the rising importance of the military in Latin American political affairs include the reinforcement of Plan Colombia and implementation of the Merida Initiative in Mexico and Central America, the reestablishment of the American Navy’s IV Fleet (deactivated in 1950), and the growing importance of the Southern Military Command in US foreign policy in the region.
This trend accelerated with the spread of Enlightenment humanist ideals based on fundamental human equality and the application of rationality to human affairs.
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