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To survive, ASEAN members must make important decisions about the role of their community in regional affairs.
Given that existing global institutions are being challenged, and given the rise of Asia in global affairs, ASEAN must reinforce its ability to influence the debate.
I have often argued that Turkey should not intervene in the internal affairs of its neighbors or adopt a Middle East-centered policy.
Earlier this year, he explained to Parliament’s foreign affairs committee that he had doubts about Western intervention in Libya for fear of repeating events in Iraq.
In fact, the opposite is true: Europe must be vigilant in policing foreign interference in its affairs – including its elections.
In a globalized world managed by bankers and technocrats, many people feel that they have no say in public affairs; they feel abandoned.
But Obama is responsible for his administration’s apparent indifference to the fate of the American-built order that has governed world affairs since the end of World War II.
But Cohen might also have been involved in a 2016 conspiracy with Russia, and his own business affairs are under investigation.
Again, how long can this state of affairs – in which markets not only ignore the real economy, but also discount political risk – be sustained?
But cooperation against terror is easier said than done, given the region’s diversity of governance, culture, language, and religion, as well as ASEAN’s central policy of keeping out of non-interference in its members’ internal affairs.
Transferring fiscal responsibility back to national authorities would not only mean the end of counterproductive efforts to manage fiscal affairs centrally; it would also diminish the sense of frustration and lack of control that is fueling Euro-skepticism.
As developed-country citizens have become increasingly frustrated with this state of affairs, politicians – in particular, US President Donald Trump – have attempted to appease them with immigration restrictions and protectionist trade measures.
We proceeded with caution and pragmatism in the management of the exchange rate of our currency and our monetary affairs, leading to a measure of stability.
A little more sharp-eyed honesty about Britain’s real weight in the post-war world might have enabled us British to play a more central role in Europe’s affairs, molding the emerging European Union more closely to our own national interests.
Finally, while nation states remain the basic building blocs in international affairs, and loyalty to your nation – patriotism – is a fine thing, crude nationalism can be deeply destructive.
What role should religion play in public affairs?
In July, Poland will assume the EU presidency for the first time; we have earned this responsibility to lead European affairs over the next six months.
In order to keep the system lean, there should be a provision for exempting some individuals and firms – those sophisticated enough to handle their own affairs, or well off enough to deal with financial failure – from the requirement of an RFP’s approval before buying a prescription financial product.
Given this, oil producers would be well advised to treat recent oil-price gains as a temporary windfall, not a permanent state of affairs or even – unless there is a notable geopolitical shock – a trend that is likely to intensify in the year ahead.
This state of affairs might have continued.
And, insisting on non-interference in Ecuador’s internal affairs, the Correa administration has launched an all-out offensive against the Organization of American States’ Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression.
Yet, in this phase of post-revolutionary stabilization, there is real danger that the central authorities, having strengthened the ‘vertical power structure,’ might interfere in affairs that are within the competence of the regions and local government.
The EU’s new High Representative for external affairs, Baroness Catherine Ashton, tried to justify her failure to go to Haiti in the immediate aftermath of its terrible earthquake by saying, “I am neither a nurse nor a fire person.”
But, of course, the sub-text is that if this fixation on property has also led to greater pragmatism in affairs of the heart, it has also led to a worrisome property bubble that many economists now fear could soon burst.
While NAFTA is not entirely to blame for a generally mediocre state of affairs, it has contributed to anti-establishment sentiment, which could affect the outcome of the 2018 general election.
Not many Africans, even among those who are knowledgeable in world affairs, had ever heard of Radio Milles Collines, the most blatant instrument of the Rwandan genocide.
When it comes to the formation of governments, women have managed to break out of the prison of their traditional domains, such as education and social affairs.
That recognition reflects a growing trend in international affairs: concerns about human security are displacing – or, as in the US, being subsumed under – traditional Realpolitik.
The military retains its constitutionally guaranteed 25% share of the legislature (where a 75% majority is required to amend the constitution) and its control of the ministries for home affairs, defense, and borders.
For the first time in history, there exists a valid global instrument that holds up a mirror to the misery of this world: a universal standard with which to compare the actual state of affairs and in whose name we can act to combat injustice.
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