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At a later date she is apparently ready to "screw the rich" (as discussed earlier in a tender moment) via Eurabic alliances bolstered by her Christian mother's money.
As regards security and peace, the liberal democracies of the world ought to take the lead and forge a global network of alliances, like NATO, that could work with or without the UN.
Promotion of freedom and democracy in and around these alliances ought to become an important objective.
To be sure, the US’s alliances with Saudi Arabia and Israel are not new.
When it comes to tackling complex political and cultural conflicts, forging international and regional alliances around a legitimate objective is more important than sheer military capacity.
American security analyst Charles Kupchan raised a pertinent question when he asked whether Russia should eventually join the Atlantic alliance, pointing out that the settlements concluded after the Napoleonic wars and World War II show that alliances between former adversaries can be critical to the consolidation of great-power peace.
In fact, like the rule of law, eurozone reform is a key fault line along which political alliances will be established.
As for the Palestinian question, Israel’s new alliances surely will not help advance a resolution.
True, Russia has violated basic principles of peace – territorial integrity, free choice of alliances, and recognition of international law – that are non-negotiable for us in the West.
Unfortunately, unlike Europe’s nineteenth-century political masterminds – figures like Talleyrand, Metternich, Bismarck, and Disraeli – who crafted durable international alliances, Asia lacks leaders willing and able to look beyond their narrow national interests.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – Latin America’s oldest guerilla group – formed alliances with narcotics cartels.
With violent theatrics, Osama bin Laden outraged and provoked the US, driving it to overreact in ways that destroyed its credibility, weakened its alliances in the Muslim world, and ultimately exhausted its military – and, in a sense, its society.
While potential coalitions to check American power may be created, it is unlikely that they will become firm alliances unless the US handles its hard coercive power in an overbearing unilateral manner that undermines its "soft" or attractive power.
Beyond emulation, small countries can help one another through direct alliances.
Surprisingly, very few such alliances exist, with many small countries – especially developing ones – cultivating close ties with “big brother” countries or immersing themselves in regional federal structures.
It requires persuasion, alliances, and compromise.
Leaders such as Mashal, who has expressed a readiness to forsake alliances with Syria and Iran and to accept a two-state solution with Israel, should be bolstered rather than boycotted.
Thus, there is broad-based regional approval of US alliances with Japan, South Korea, and Australia, as well as with partners such as the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and India.
Of course, the difficulty of managing these two alliances pales in comparison to managing the relationship with China.
This prospect gives incentives for both alliances to stay together.
Its pantheon includes such passionless executors of raison d'état as Metternich, Talleyrand, Richelieu, Bismarck, and Kissinger--people who make alliances with morally repugnant partners and then sometimes reverse them at the drop of a hat.
According to one school of thought, the future is all about ad hoc alliances – virtual and flexible networks that take advantage of the world’s interconnectedness to forge mutually beneficial relationships.
The UK never lost an EU vote on financial regulation until this year, when our refusal to make alliances on the bonus tax left our position without supporters.
There is already evidence that, as European Council President Herman Van Rompuy put it, putting one’s hand on the exit door makes people in the room less amenable to alliances.
He expects the US to offer Israel security assistance to face the challenge that Iran poses, even as he barges clumsily into Obama’s political backyard and forges alliances with his domestic opponents.
If the Palestine issue is not resolved soon, there can be no lasting alliances with “moderate” Sunni powers to counter Iran.
To be sure, Iran’s alliances are vulnerable to erosion and, in the case of two staunch allies, Syria and Venezuela, to outright collapse.
The equivocal nature of Iran’s alliances, however, can be a mixed blessing.
And on the whole, his unpredictability and transactional approach to alliances has already called into question Britain’s most important relationship outside Europe.
Because Indonesia's government will likely be weak for years to come, Mrs Megawati should forge alliances with the many civil society groups that are emerging in Indonesia and which support a democratic regime.
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