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Likewise, he has failed to display the discipline needed to master the details of foreign policy, with the result that, unlike Nixon, he comes across as naive about world affairs.
CAMBRIDGE – The rise of anti-trade populism in the 2016 US election campaign portends a dangerous retreat from the United States’ role in world affairs.
If the political appeal of anti-trade policies proves durable, it will mark a historic turning point in global economic affairs, one that bodes ill for the future of American leadership.
And Poland’s new European affairs minister, Konrad Szymanski, did not wait 24 hours after the Paris attacks before using them to denounce Europe’s flaws.
Like previous Chinese leaders, Xi firmly believes that the world should respect China’s authority to manage its own affairs.
The move highlights the persistent influence of Kennan’s belief that the US maintains a right – indeed, a responsibility – to intervene in the domestic affairs of Latin American countries where government policies are not to its liking.
In foreign affairs, too, Italy has become more assertive.
The Italian foreign minister, Paolo Gentiloni, is collaborating with his predecessor, Federica Mogherini, now the EU’s High Representative for foreign affairs, to create more pragmatic and effective European policies on Libya and the refugee crisis.
Indeed, Lomborg’s case would seem to support the accusatorial model of ethics review, which assumes that scientists adequately regulate their own affairs through normal peer-review procedures.
But Abe’s recent trip to the US served as an important reminder of Japan’s centrality to Asian affairs.
Furthermore, the majority did not think democratization would hurt the economy, although there were clear concerns that political instability could arise from China's intervention in Hong Kong affairs.
India’s exceptional pluralism is acknowledged in the way the country arranges its affairs: all groups, faiths, tastes, and ideologies survive and contend for their place in the sun.
Whether Germany agrees to Eurobonds or leaves the euro, either choice would be infinitely preferable to the current state of affairs.
The point is that the current state of affairs is intolerable.
Positive watersheds – opportunities to engineer seismic shifts in international or regional political affairs through nation-building, or to use economic and military assistance to prevent plausible negative watersheds – demand an equal level of commitment.
Why is Japan so seemingly detached in international affairs?
The benefits and burdens of international affairs must become subjects of open debate in the Japanese Diet.
Transparency of this kind is needed if Japan is to make a stronger contribution to world affairs and help prevent the 21 st century from becoming yet another century of war.
So it was only appropriate that he should become deputy prime minister for social affairs in 2005, because he had already succeeded in largely bringing these affairs to a halt.
Difficult reforms are needed to put many national economies’ fiscal affairs in order and to increase their structural flexibility.
In fact, the Kan administration – which loathes the involvement of bureaucrats, who are professionals, in managing public affairs – delayed notifying neighboring countries when it was forced to order the release of water containing low concentrations of radioactive material.
But it is a reasonable expectation – often legitimately reinforced through civic education for all children – that citizens know how to participate in public affairs, and especially that they know what their and others’ rights are.
Ultimately, however, this state of affairs must be laid at the door of Obama himself – a president who in other areas has demonstrated an impressive ability to recognize a problem’s complexities and chart a course forward.
With a series of local elections coming up in 2019, Kramp-Karrenbauer will likely focus on domestic politics, and Merkel will see to the country’s foreign affairs.
Having lost their own zest for internationalism, a common response among liberals to neo-con radicalism has been a call for “realism,” non-interference in others’ affairs, and withdrawal from the world.
Instead, the journalist Ben Judah reports, Putin receives daily updates on Kremlin politics, domestic affairs, and foreign relations from his three key intelligence agencies.
The assumption that a benign growth and interest-rate environment was a permanent state of affairs led to a massive failure of fiscal counter-cyclicality in the advanced economies, as budget deficits became chronic, rather than a response to depressed domestic demand.
It is to this state of affairs that the French and Dutch said “no” two months ago.
There is little concern, if any, about the ESDP intervening in internal Chinese affairs, such as Taiwan.
As defenders of a non-exclusive, rights-based creed, liberals are compelled to meddle in the affairs of other countries whose policies don’t accord with liberal values.
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