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Trump’s presidency amounts to the working out of the policy implications of this Schmittian view for domestic and foreign affairs.
While observers of North Korean affairs seem both tickled and stumped by Kim Jong-un’s marriage, and the accompanying media snippets, this “new development” is not startling.
In addition, its system of parliamentary elections every other year inevitably pushes international affairs to the sidelines.
Many shrewd Washington observers feel reminded of the early 1920's when Americans, once before, sought to opt out of international affairs.
In terms of its day-to-day affairs, the EU is largely perceived as a common market and customs union.
When I met with Egypt’s foreign minister, Nabil Fahmy, in August, he hinted at the new regime’s dissatisfaction with attempts by the European Union and the US to influence his country’s domestic affairs.
And, sadly, this state of affairs seems to be emanating not from countries in crisis, but rather from the US itself.
So, if you lack the knowledge or standing to involve yourself in another country’s affairs, don’t do it.
The creation of these new departments has reduced the once-proud British Foreign Office to something of a think tank on international affairs, responsible for maintaining Britain’s public and trading relations around the world until things settle down again.
Claims that he abandoned his nuclear program in response to the US-led invasion of Iraq have been refuted by Flynt Leverett, director for Middle Eastern affairs at the US National Security Council from 2002 to 2003.
The spectacle of “American government officials, academicians, businessmen, and politicians” arrogantly “telling the Russians how to conduct their […] affairs” inevitably “led to deep and long-term resentment and bitterness.”
On foreign affairs, however, the US president has substantial authority.
This state of affairs represents a failure of economics and law that urgently needs to be corrected.
In other words, the League’s main purpose is to marginalize Russia and China in world affairs.
But in social sciences the relationship between statements and facts is less clear-cut because in human affairs perceptions help determine reality and facts do not necessarily constitute reliable criteria for judging the truth of statements.
On the contrary, the prevailing view was that people ought to be left to look after their own affairs.
(I mention this because social Darwinism is one of the misconceptions driving human affairs today.)
The perception today is that America’s unipolar moment has come to an end;Europe is on the decline; and a new set of powers is rising, bringing their own unique worldviews to global affairs.
Under UN administration, legitimate Kosovar institutions for managing domestic affairs have been created.
Europeans have become the Japanese of the West – financial contributors who at best play a supporting role in global strategic affairs.
China’s declared policy of “noninterference in domestic affairs” actually serves as a virtual license to pursue dam projects that flood lands and forcibly uproot people – including, as with Myitsone, ethnic minorities – in other countries.
Like many European countries, the ECFR’s Scorecard observed that Germany’s efforts to deal with the economic crisis left little room for foreign affairs.
The current state of affairs is all the more depressing because global economic growth in the past four years has been the fastest since the early 1970’s.
Worse, in this sorry state of affairs, the world may be getting a glimpse of a very ugly future.
Motherland's proclaimed policies, a heady brew of nationalism and socialism, are espoused by seasoned leaders, including the economist Sergei Glazyev, chairman of the Duma foreign affairs committee Dmitry Rogozin, and former Central Bank head Viktor Gerashchenko.
As a member state, the UK has the option of choosing whether to go it alone in foreign affairs or cooperate with Europe on a case-by-case basis.
Indeed, by shooting down a Turkish warplane that wandered into Syrian airspace, Assad’s regime intended to deliver a clear message to the international community: “Stay out of Syria’s domestic affairs.”
But there is a second, unchanging element in North Korean affairs: its basket-case economy.
BRUSSELS – In the 18 months since the Lisbon Treaty created the European Union’s diplomatic service – the European External Action Service (EEAS) – there has been more talk than ever of Europe having a “single voice” in world affairs.
There were high expectations, both at home and abroad, that South Africa could and would punch above its weight in international affairs, capitalizing on the extraordinary and unexpected constitutional settlement achieved by Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk in 1994.
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