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There is no other way to reverse the widespread perception across the region that the US has imperial ambitions.
Truth and reconciliation, peace and justice, even justice and truth: these are only some of the worthy ambitions for human society that are routinely presented as totally reconcilable.
Regional acceptance of a Kurdish state-building project that transcends today’s KRG-controlled borders would depend, among other things, on the scale of the Kurds’ national ambitions.
The Kurds in northern Syria and Iraq are the most effective fighters against ISIS, but their own national ambitions put them at odds with Turkey.
Because of Europe’s short-sightedness, Turkey has in effect abandoned its ambitions for EU membership and opted for the neo-Ottoman project of becoming a Middle Eastern power – a policy shift that reflects both interests and ideology.
When we asked the children what their ambitions were, we found that they were exactly the same as those of kids worldwide.
Likewise, China’s $20 billion line of credit to Africa, extended at the recently concluded triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, will go a long way toward furthering its ambitions in Africa.
The war enabled Iran to assert itself as the dominant power in the Gulf and the wider region, and its nuclear program serves precisely these ambitions.
Recently, he announced that he has presidential ambitions; in the meantime, he is seeking to become the mayor of Moscow (arguably the second most important political post in Russia).
But going to war to impede Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and containing the subsequent chaos – including oil-price spikes, increased regional volatility, and reduced American strategic flexibility – would be far more costly.
Gazprom’s ambitions for gaining control of pipeline and energy transport infrastructure must be slowed, which requires allowing independent producers to prosper.
Obama’s ambitions are centered on reversing the arrangement that has dominated US politics since Richard Nixon’s election in 1968.
US President Donald Trump’s administration understands the central importance of China to any strategy to rein in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
In this context, the Central Asian republics are already hedging against Putin’s irredentist ambitions, by pursuing closer ties with the EU and China.
Violence in Thailand’s predominantly Muslim south seemed to dent his ambitions last year, but his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party’s landslide victory last February gave his bid for regional leadership a new lease on life.
America is now wisely building working relations with the new Islamist leaders, in the hope that they will not endanger the region’s US-brokered peace agreements (Israel-Jordan and Israel-Egypt) or interfere with America’s drive to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
His calm retreat from some of the more isolating notions practiced by General de Gaulle, and his ability to have these policies accepted by most rank-and-file Gaullists, speak of self-disciplined ambitions, and a maturing Gaullism for the next century.
A woman with great career ambitions should be able to find a partner who is willing to slow down or stop working to support her, just as a man should.
Her role should be determined not by old-fashioned rules, but by her individual strengths and ambitions.
Some of these will be perennial problems in need of no introduction: North Korea and its nuclear ambitions, China and its global ambitions, Russia and its spiteful ambitions, and of course, the Middle East and its dysfunctional ambitions.
Now, Chinese President Xi Jinping finds himself not only defending the BRI, his signature foreign-policy initiative, but also confronting domestic criticism, however muted, for flaunting China’s global ambitions and thereby inviting a US-led international backlash.
The Water HegemonNEW DELHI – International discussion about China’s rise has focused on its increasing trade muscle, growing maritime ambitions, and expanding capacity to project military power.
In an article in the Financial Times in July 2004, Standard Chartered CEO Mervyn Davies wrote, “westerners are realizing how big Asia’s corporate ambitions are.”
The international community must balance the need to ensure that Ukraine does not become the site of a proxy battle with the necessity of stopping Putin’s destructive ambitions.
China’s important role concerning North Korea’s nuclear ambitions is a good example of exercising responsibility for international security and stability.
Those who took it – admittedly, a minority – swore to pursue their work “in an ethical manner” and to run their enterprises “in good faith, guarding against decisions and behavior that advance my own narrow ambitions but harm the enterprise and the societies it serves.”
None of the emerging powers has even begun to use its growing political and economic clout to advance truly global ambitions – or to take on responsibilities that Washington can no longer afford.
Unwilling to see their boys die for the Donbas, they will form an anti-war movement that will force him to rein in his territorial ambitions.
Europe, however, needs to decide if it is ready to sign on with the US, as Japan has now clearly done, to contain China’s strategic and military ambitions.
But, nowadays, competing strategic interests and imperial ambitions play a much larger role than religious or sectarian cleavages in defining regional politics.
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