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Al Thani’s political audacity stems partly from Qatar’s enormous gas resources, which have allowed him to develop vigorous policies in all areas, especially in foreign affairs.
Busy with domestic political affairs, they do not hesitate to use Europe as a scapegoat to avoid breaking bad news to their fellow citizens.
The traditionalists argue that China should assume responsibility for world affairs consistent with its status as the world’s second-largest economy, behind only the US.
For example, the Chinese government reiterated its core diplomatic principle of non-intervention in other countries’ affairs during the Libya crisis, yet China accepted the imposition of United Nations’ sanctions on Muammar Qaddafi’s government.
But most attention has focused on the EU’s three top positions: the President of the European Commission, the President of the European Council, and the High Representative for external affairs.
Male protagonists in French films don’t take off together in convertibles for the Pyrenees; they stay home and urbanely have affairs.
A key component of China’s strategy in the South China Sea is the dredging of low-tide elevations to make small islands, including in areas that, as China’s deputy foreign minister for Asian affairs, Liu Zhenmin, recently acknowledged, “are far from the Chinese mainland.”
This state of affairs is jeopardizing the entire economy.
As a result, the US, as the world’s strongest military power, wants to put bilateral military relations on the upcoming meeting’s agenda, along with bilateral economic relations and international political affairs.
In many countries, even reliable data about the current state of affairs is hard to come by.
But he will not forget Russia’s interference in France’s internal affairs.
The secular, center-left Republican People’s Party, for example, opposes interference in the internal affairs of any country, advocating instead that Turkey re-establish good relations with the countries of the region, including Syria.
Shirk’s title still captures a significant phenomenon that bedevils diplomatic affairs.
Moreover, African affairs, and international politics more generally, do not seem to be a priority for the 2007 presidential candidates.
As subjugating and ahistorical as those relationships were, much of the world accepted the binding of “Eastern Europe” to the Soviet Union as a logical state of affairs, one in keeping with the world order that emerged at the close of WWII.
Long may this state of affairs continue.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s remark during a recent trip to Washington that he was more concerned about Turkey than Iran exposed the huge gulf between Iraq and the US, which now appears to have lost all significant political influence on Iraqi affairs.
Pakistani leaders obviously bear a heavy responsibility for this state of affairs.
We need to be clear that Moscow has a right to security, but that it does not have the right to interfere in the affairs of its neighbors, to topple their governments, or to deny them their own foreign-policy aspirations.
Moreover, schools and institutes of public affairs must offer student and faculty opportunities to engage with the policymakers of the day.
This kind of autopilot can work in normal times; indeed, it dominated the Western leaders’ approach to global affairs for much of the last decade and a half.
Of course, there are many questions, beginning with whether the EU – which negotiates trade arrangements as one entity, but comprises members with sovereignty in many areas – should be regarded as a unified actor in global affairs.
On the opening night, a senior German government minister, himself deeply involved in Middle Eastern affairs, addressed both subjects, displaying great sensitivity both to Israeli and Palestinian concerns.
Indeed, apart from defense and foreign affairs, Hong Kong was to be master of its own house.
Indeed, not only must China refrain from interfering in Hong Kong’s internal affairs, but it must encourage the people of Hong Kong to defend their much smaller system.
For example, the tendency of Arab countries’ media to discuss issues concerning other countries more freely than those affecting their own has long impeded citizens’ ability to keep abreast of domestic affairs.
As a result, we are committed to dialogue and compromise as the only way to balance the many competing demands and opinions that pervade public affairs.
In situations where groups have difficulties living together, it may be possible to allow a degree of autonomy in the determination of internal affairs.
But both Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, display little or no interest in foreign affairs, apart from assuring voters that Israel’s interests will be safeguarded, Iran’s will not be, and whatever the US does must be tough and strident.
But there is also a compensatory effort that has absorbed much of the energy of the bureaucracies for labor and social security, and for civil affairs.
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