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It could even be said that their longstanding dispute makes America’s Asian alliance system worth less than the sum of its parts.
Simply focusing on the positive – America’s classic approach to alliance diplomacy – is no longer enough.
A PD alliance with Monti would not be enough.
The reasons were always the same: politico-religious fanaticism and the blunder of challenging the prevailing world powers – hence modern Zionism’s obsessive quest for a binding alliance with a superpower.
Under his leadership, Russia has shrugged off sanctions, forged a new alliance with China, and annoyed – but not openly challenged – the West in Syria.
That agreement would later develop into NATO, which, for four decades, enabled an alliance of independent democracies with shared values and market economies to withstand the Soviet threat – and which has safeguarded Europe to this day.
When US President Barack Obama’s administration announced its “rebalancing” toward Asia in 2011, it reaffirmed the 1996 Clinton-Hashimoto Declaration, which cited the US-Japan security alliance as the foundation for stability – a prerequisite for continued economic progress – in Asia.
Meanwhile, the US and Japan must rethink the structure of their alliance.
While the expected revisions to Japan’s defense framework are a positive development, many Japanese still resent the lack of symmetry in the alliance obligations.
To avoid the perception that the US decided to turn the bases over to Japan just when their military benefits were diminishing, and to ensure that the move represented America’s recommitment to the alliance, a joint commission would have to be established to manage the transfer.
For Japan, becoming an equal partner in its alliance with the US is essential to securing its regional and global standing.
Can the winning alliance survive its own success?
To do otherwise would be to risk weakening the Western alliance, upon which global stability and order rests.
In such a divided context, the alliance of “moderates” created by US President Barack Obama to defeat the Islamic State – a group that includes Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates – is weak at best.
Breaking this unholy alliance will be the big test for China’s leadership in 2011and beyond.
Francois Mitterrand turned this situation around by not only striking an alliance with the Communist party (a deal by which the latter became permanently enfeebled), but also by introducing a (by now again abandoned) system of proportional representation, one which allowed the National Front to enter the political landscape of France in force.
Indeed, Xi implicitly criticized the existing US-dominated security architecture in Asia as stuck in the Cold War, and characterized “military alliance targeted at a third party” as “not conducive to maintaining common security.”
The opposition Maoist-Madhesi alliance wants the decision rule to be consensus, whereas the exasperated government proposes requiring a two-thirds majority.
This, in turn, would strengthen the Russia-Iran alliance.
Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, the former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief, confirmed that he sponsored an alliance of right-wing political parties to stop her from getting a parliamentary majority.
Turkey believed that by engaging Syria, it could lure the Assad regime away from its close alliance with Iran.
If the FDPsurvives and a center-right coalition cannot gain a majority (which is likely), the party will seek an alliance with the SPD and the Greens, costing Merkel the chancellorship in 2013.
After 9/11, the alliance came to the conclusion that threats may need to be dealt with on a worldwide basis, which explains NATO’s presence in Afghanistan.
A new Pan-European security alliance was conceived as a replacement, with the more naive among us believing that, in the new era in which all are democrats, security alliances no longer mattered.
The term alliance has various meanings.
The structure of such an alliance is principally closed -- it is a structure in which power is more important than value.
An alliance such as NATO is and must be different.
It must be an alliance designed for the protection of the values of those served by its power: for human rights, the rule of law, democracy, freedom of expression and a market economy.
It is therefore an alliance designed to protect not only national sovereignty or geopolitical interests, but to protect certain kinds of human culture and civilization.
That means that the principal bond of such an alliance is not a mere calculus of geopolitical interest, or of potential enemies, but something much deeper: solidarity.
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