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Fourth, the eurozone is not the EU, and euro reform must not be allowed to destroy the EU as an alliance of equal partners.
Alliances between eurozone members and non-euro EU members are needed to achieve this, and an Anglo-Irish alliance is a good starting point.
ConclusionThe sad truth is that the euro crisis has provided fodder for federalists and skeptics, who form a strange alliance in arguing that the euro would work only within a full-fledged federal union.
They point to the special role of the western alliance, and most of all of the European Union, in assuring peace and security in the Balkans, in promoting democratic nation-state building in the region.
Americans seethed, and it appeared that the awkward alliance between a secular democracy and a secretive theocracy, cemented by common interests during the Cold War, was plunging into the abyss separating their values.
But the alliance not only survived; it deepened.
Unless Europe's leaders roundly condemn this unholy triple alliance, it will poison Middle East politics and transatlantic relations alike.
Now, Musharraf, in order to preserve his country’s alliance with the world’s sole superpower (and his country’s largest donor), had to betray his own.
Beyond NATO’s Libyan RedemptionSINGAPORE – While NATO probably will not want to replicate its Libya intervention anywhere else anytime soon, it appears that the alliance, with a little help from its friends, has prevailed in Libya, succeeding in toppling Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
Successive German governments have maintained that the alliance should be, or even is, the place to discuss and decide on key security challenges.
But North Korea also knows that, without joint exercises, a military alliance becomes weak and hollow.
Moreover, opportunities for foreigners to raise their voice and influence American policies constitute an important incentive for being part of an alliance with the US.
If it played its cards right, it could even end the US alliance with South Korea and Japan, with all US troops withdrawing from East Asia.
But, while South Korea’s geostrategic location and historical legacy – together with the enduring nationalist sentiments, alliance politics, territorial disputes, and superpower rivalries at play throughout the region – have generated a persistent security dilemmas, the country’s closest neighbor poses its defining security challenge.
Given the need to prevent another war, South Korea’s national-security strategy – based on the mutually reinforcing pillars of defensive deterrence, alliance with the US, and forward active defense – has remained relatively constant for more than six decades.
In recalibrating their WMD development and testing strategies, North Korea’s leaders hope to offset the military and technological superiority of the US-South Korea alliance, thereby attaining greater economic and political leverage in the region, and, most important, guaranteeing the regime’s survival.
Clearly, Australia and other US allies face some interesting times ahead as we juggle our long-standing alliance with economic imperatives.
It is important that Australia and others in the region do push back against the kind of hard Chinese nationalist sentiment that has rightly jangled nerves in the South China Sea and, in their defense policy and alliance relationships, hedge against worst-case scenarios, however unlikely they may appear now.
China knows perfectly well where Australia, the US, and others stand; its leaders understand these countries’ alliance relationships, even as they rail against them, and have their own compelling reasons to continue to trade with us.
The lingering empathy for France and Germany born of the Cold War alliance stands in stark contrast to the American foreign policy community's wariness toward post-Soviet Russia.
My grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, chose the path of democracy and alliance with the US when he was Prime Minister in the 1950s.
Adding these partners to the central pillar of the US-Japan alliance will strengthen stability throughout the region.
For this reason, too, it is our responsibility to fortify the US-Japan alliance.
These enhanced legislative foundations should make cooperation between the US military and Japan’s Self-Defense Forces even stronger, and the alliance still more solid, providing credible deterrence in the service of peace in the region.
Still, both sides are united in their belief that Poland should have a strong alliance with the United States, and should support Ukrainian independence (though the right does harbor some grievances against Ukraine for various historical transgressions).
Germany is regarded by the Trump administration as an economic rival, and by Poland as a potential security threat, owing to its energy alliance with Russia.
As an alliance of human-rights groups, environmental activists, and corporate-accountability advocates already is demanding, we must kick the industry out of the policymaking process altogether.
From that point on, the specter of a Jewish minority ruling over an Arab majority in an apartheid state is bound to become a reality, turning Israel into an international pariah, unless a more sober coalition replaces Netanyahu’s suicidal alliance with religious fundamentalists and extreme nationalists.
Since NATO finally decided to show its teeth, in particular since IFOR troops entered Bosnia to secure a fragile peace, Western politicians have hailed this as proof that the crisis in the alliance is over.
They also blind themselves to a fact of post-cold war international security: instead of one major threat that unites an alliance, there are a multitude of dangers which, because they affect countries differently, disunite allies.
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