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Words and narratives affect international affairs in similar ways.
Europe sometimes seems more concerned about is own institutional arrangements and internal affairs than about its global responsibilities.
The reason for this state of affairs is not that France’s economy lacks potential.
We also have a considerable number of new instruments in the area of justice and home affairs.
Even then, German policy in the Middle East continued to reflect a domestic consensus that Germany’s responsibility for Israel’s security must be balanced with an effort to remain neutral in the region’s affairs.
President Barack Obama rightly wants to lead in global affairs through civilian more than military power; he understands that military solutions to foreign-policy problems are hugely expensive and often counter-productive in terms of advancing US security and prosperity over the long term.
Until the United Nations-backed Libyan intervention, Europe seemed increasingly a bystander in international affairs, and even its participation in Libya is largely a Franco-British affair, with Germany opting out and choosing a quiet life.
One definition of politics holds that it is the conduct, concern for, and administration of public affairs.
Obviously, concern for public affairs means concern for humanity and the world, which requires a recognition of humanity’s self-awareness in the world.
According to the Mecca agreement signed last February, Hamas would give up important ministries such as finance, interior, and foreign affairs, while Abbas would ensure the end of the economic siege.
The attempted assassination in Jeddah last month of Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, the deputy interior minister for security affairs, demonstrates both elements of the Saudi strategy, and how a bold attempt by Al-Qaeda to revive its fortunes has failed.
And I am thankful this Christmas for being able to believe that democratic Europe will not tolerate this state of affairs.
This leads to a “chilling effect” among those serving in the military public affairs field, who conclude that there is no tolerance for innovation.
Soon after the devastating earthquake in Pakistan, a public affairs team was deployed with our sizable military forces in the disaster area.
Government public affairs and public diplomacy efforts are slowly beginning to reorient staffing, schedules, and bureaucratic culture to engage the full range of today’s media.
This training enabled them to compare the debased state of affairs of their time with the norms and aspirations of earlier generations of clerics and thinkers.
The EU’s disunity over the war in Iraq should not overshadow its member states’ agreement on almost all other great questions of international affairs.
The ECB should have done some thinking before it let this state of affairs arise.
These actions violated the IDB’s own charter, which strictly prohibits the Bank and its members from interfering in the internal political affairs of member states.
By propping up the renminbi as a reserve currency, Europe is hoping to support the liberalizers inside China and welcome the country to the core group of world powers that decide global monetary affairs.
New activism on the part of France and the United Kingdom, along with Germany’s emergence as a central player in EU affairs, risk marginalizing Italy’s influence even more.
It certainly wasn’t – and isn’t – foreign policy, as George H. W. Bush, one of America’s most proficient presidents in international affairs – can attest.
The truth is, that China's real interests are undermined by the firing of missiles off the coast of Taiwan, threatening Hong Kong's elected Legislative Council with dissolution in 1997, thwarting the Dalai Lama by countermanding his selection of the Panchen Lama's reincarnation, selling ballistic missiles to Pakistan and nuclear technology to Iran, saber rattling over the Spratly Islands, or accusing the U.S. of "interfering in China's internal affairs" when it calls attention to trade and human rights abuses.
Nevertheless, older people’s crucial role is continually undermined, as opportunities are created and technology is deployed in ways that exclude them from employment, public life, and even family affairs.
Obama and Asia’s Two FuturesTOKYO – Despite the relentless shift of global economic might to Asia, and China’s rise as a great power – the central historical events of our time, which will drive world affairs for the foreseeable future – America’s focus has been elsewhere.
Al Jazeera – Arabic for “the island” – represented a haven of professional, independent, current affairs programming in a sea of one-sided, government-controlled Arab media.
Although no one has yet caught up to Al Jazeera’s news and current affairs popularity, the Saudi-owned Middle East Broadcasting Center has introduced a successful 24-hour station, Al Arrabiyeh, which is challenging Al Jazeera’s lead.
While no state-run TV station had live current affairs programs ten years ago, now even stations from some of the most dictatorial regimes are forced to raise their level and allow live interviews.
Confucian literati, shunning manual labor, grew their fingernails long, but they never displayed antipathy towards the world of affairs.
Without Germany's intellectual, financial and military contribution, the EU, an economic giant, will remain a political dwarf in world affairs.
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