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Second, due in part to internal nationalist crises, the empire found it increasingly difficult to chart a unified, independent course in international affairs.
If Europe does not want to be marginalized in international affairs, it must quickly develop a strategic response to the Arab Spring, underpinned by a compelling vision of the future of the Middle East and North Africa.
Almost three decades after the end of the Soviet Union’s own war in Afghanistan – a war that enfeebled the Soviet economy and undermined the communist state – Russia has moved to establish itself as a central actor in Afghan affairs.
Another would combine asylum policy, border protection, and cooperation in police and judicial affairs; this area could retain control-free internal borders, which is increasingly difficult between countries with widely differing asylum policies.
Also, his formal role is limited to helping the Palestinians sort out their economic and political affairs, not trying to negotiate a peace settlement – a task reserved for US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.
Asians, according to this theory, have their own values, which include thrift, deference to authority, the sacrifice of individual to collective interests, and the belief that countries should not stick their noses into others’ affairs.
But, if US politicians spend the next two years the way they have spent the last two – patching together temporary policy fixes while avoiding the hard issues that voters and markets expect them to face – America’s voice will grow fainter, and weaker, in international institutions and affairs.
Parents whose child is seriously ill, spouses who discover their partners’ extramarital affairs, or workers unexpectedly fired from valued jobs are defined as suffering mental disorders if they develop enough symptoms to meet the DSM criteria.
There have been many causes: a decade of war in the greater Middle East, with its enormous cost in “blood and treasure”; the financial and economic crisis; high public debt; reorientation toward internal problems; and a new focus on Pacific affairs.
Like previous US presidents, Donald Trump has said that this state of affairs is intolerable.
Under this scenario, Europe could finally emerge as a strong actor in international affairs.
For a region not always accustomed to things going well, this is a somewhat strange state of affairs.
But if the SARS epidemic exposed the retro side of China's approach to involvement in global affairs, China has shown its newer, more cosmopolitan and internationalist side by hosting the three-way discussion between America, North Korea, and China.
In the past, China shied away from most multilateral problem solving, fearing that it might set a precedent for other countries to intervene in internal Chinese affairs.
And, indeed, it seems that an “anything-but-China” mentality prevails among many US decision-makers, whether in economic or security affairs.
Nepal’s vibrant FM radio stations – once models for decentralized public-service broadcasting and community radio – have been prohibited from broadcasting current affairs.
It is equally clear that Asian states are not yet ready to assume the more meaningful leadership in global affairs that will be necessary to ensure that this tectonic shift can make the world more stable and secure than it has been.
The war ended up making the US an active participant in China’s affairs.
By 2007, even Abdullah Dardari, the deputy prime minister for economic affairs and a chief architect of Syria’s economic reforms (which were upended by the 2011 civil war), described Raqqa as a long-forgotten city.
The internal market’s four pillars – the free movement of goods, services, capital, and people – have underpinned broader EU measures, in areas like foreign policy and justice and home affairs, and will now be subsumed under new policy labels, from economy and financial affairs to the digital agenda.
No wonder many citizens feel that they have lost control over their political affairs.
Polls routinely indicate that more than 80% of Russians believe that they can make no difference in national or even regional affairs.
The non-intrusive nature of the government is appreciated: people eagerly engage in their private affairs – with little regard for the political realm, which they have willingly abandoned.
Any banker who reveals details of his clients’ affairs to unauthorized third parties is committing a criminal offense in Switzerland.
For the essential question about Sarko-diplomacy is whether it reflects a well-defined strategy, based on a clear vision of the world, or merely expresses a shrewd and pragmatic activism that applies a keen domestic political instinct to the field of foreign affairs?
There are four possible economic and policy responses to this state of affairs.
It is easy to blame Obama, or the reckless Republicans, for this sorry state of affairs.
The Bush administration has only itself to blame for this state of affairs.
One could infer, and many have, that such statements signal a revival of US devotion to Realpolitik in world affairs.
Severing moral concerns from global affairs would only weaken the US and all who emulate it.
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