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The current state of affairs remains the EU’s Achilles’ heel, because it implies dependence on imports from unstable, authoritarian regimes.
The shocking assassinations of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s minister for minority affairs, and the governor of Punjab province, Salmaan Taseer, ensured that anyone who speaks out on this topic can expect swift retribution.
The natural course of history in the most optimistic sense is progress “at the margin,” but the rapid pace of technological change is pushing us to expect equally rapid progress in human affairs.
But, now that the specter of global communist domination has joined other fears – real and imagined – in the dustbin of history, it is surely time for countries to start handling their own affairs.
Almost all Serb opposition leaders agree with Djukanovic's complaint that the federal government is illegitimate because of this state of affairs.
The main victims of this state of affairs are women and the young, for whom employment ratios are much lower than for the population as a whole.
Its officials had no compunction about meddling in a member state’s internal affairs – say, to demand the removal of elected politicians for refusing to implement cuts in the pensions of their poorest citizens or to sell off public assets at ridiculous prices (something I have personally experienced).
The path from this sorry state of affairs to the reinvigoration of Catalan separatism could not be clearer.
Japan has historically punched above its weight in world affairs.
Everyone was hurt, and America's role in world affairs was shaken.
According to the Argentine scholar Roberto Bouzas, MERCOSUR is in a critical state of affairs, owing to the inability of its institutions to maintain “the common objectives which drove its member states to engage in the process of regional integration and the consequent loss of focus and capacity to prioritize underlying political problems.
This imagined state of affairs might be called the financial singularity, analogous to the hypothetical future technological singularity, when computers replace human intelligence.
Not even George W. Bush seemed to be committed to any particular doctrine in foreign affairs before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, drove him to unleash his ill-conceived “global war on terror.”
This cannot merely be a state of affairs like the current one, in which hostilities are absent.
Saudi Arabia has two large concerns about the Islamic Republic: its quest for nuclear weapons and its interference in its neighbors’ affairs.
The irony is that Iran is the first to assert the principle of non-intervention when it suspects other countries of meddling in its internal affairs.
Indeed, US military spending exceeds the sum of federal budgetary outlays for education, agriculture, climate change, environmental protection, ocean protection, energy systems, homeland security, low-income housing, national parks and national land management, the judicial system, international development, diplomatic operations, highways, public transport, veterans affairs, space exploration and science, civilian research and development, civil engineering for waterways, dams, bridges, sewerage and waste treatment, community development, and many other areas.
In doing so, China has allowed power calculations to outweigh its own long-held principles, particularly non-interference in other countries’ internal affairs – a change that its leaders would defend by asserting that the US has repeatedly demonstrated that power ultimately determines principles.
For example, the head of Islamic affairs in the Ministry of Religion, Nasaruddin Umar, is a self-described Islamic feminist who has published sophisticated critiques of gender bias in Koranic exegesis.
And it should not come as a surprise that the markets have tested the willingness of European political leaders to keep quiet where monetary affairs are concerned.
American-Chinese relationships, in addition to their impact on Russia, have a significance, for the stability of North-East Asia where there is a potential for conflict and they will help to define how Japan defines its own role in international affairs as a major power, not only economically, but also over time, politically and militarily.
That is altogether a new era of human affairs.
Five years after the uprisings erupted, Arab citizens have little – in some cases, even less – voice in running their countries’ affairs.
Not long after Chen left the US embassy for Beijing’s Chaoyang hospital, China’s government issued its usual denunciation of US interference in its internal affairs.
In his only election speech, on February 23, 2012, Putin, recalling Russia’s victory over Napoleon in 1812, warned against foreign interference in the country’s internal affairs.
The nation-state, the classic provider of security and basic wellbeing in exchange for citizens’ loyalty, is under threat – both at home and as the fundamental unit of international affairs.
Moreover, financial and human resources for military affairs are scarce and cannot be duplicated, while France and Britain want to restart the Saint-Malo process of bilateral defense efforts launched nearly ten years ago.
And America must be a respectful partner in order to encourage rising powers like India and China to play more constructive roles in international affairs.
Nationalism continues to produce powerful political “antibodies” to American and European meddling in other countries’ internal affairs.
Rich countries have long meddled, often with their own corruption and incompetence, in the internal affairs of the countries that they now lecture.
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