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His lack of all compunction about using racism to advance his ambitions is no less a concern to his detractors, who worry that he is alienating large minority groups.
Greek Cypriots are using their European Union membership as a weapon to frustrate Turkey’s EU ambitions and to block attempts to increase trade between the EU and the island’s north.
But it will be a monument less to the modest Gandhian it ostensibly honors than to its builder’s overweening ambitions.
The German magazine Der Spiegel heralded the “9/11 of the nuclear industry” and “the end of the nuclear era,” while Spain’s leading newspaper El Pais preached that supporting “this energy [was] irrational,” and that “China has put a brake on its nuclear ambitions.”
And, on global geopolitical issues – the tensions on the Korean peninsula, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the disorder in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the political transition in autocratic Middle East regimes – the great powers disagree and are impotent to impose stable solutions.
Netanyahu persists in questioning Obama’s infatuation with the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and he refuses to see the link that Obama believes exists between an Israeli-Palestinian peace and his capacity to curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Read More from "Zone Defense"A Grand Bargain with IranThe specter of a nuclear Iran haunts Arabs and Israelis alike, but it is the United States and Israel that are the driving force behind efforts to curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
More an enemy of Israeli-Arab reconciliation than of Israel as such, the Mullahs’ resort to an incendiary anti-Jewish, pan-Islamic discourse is aimed at ending Iran’s isolation and presenting its regional ambitions in a light palatable to the Sunni masses.
Putin continues to pursue a brutal military campaign in Chechnya while intervening politically in Soviet successor states like Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Belarus and rejecting Western tactics aimed at curbing Iran’s and North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
But, though China may not struggle to finance its Silk Road ambitions, it is likely to face political resistance – especially with regard to the maritime route.
The costs imposed by such politicians are high for all of us, even if they do not fully achieve their protectionist and nativist ambitions, because they prey on fear, inflame bigotry, and thrive on a dangerously polarized us-versus-them approach to governance.
India’s adventures in space exploration are not merely about its scientists’ ambitions.
While some Central European members that were formerly occupied by the USSR continue to see NATO as a political insurance policy against a revival of Russian ambitions, NATO is no longer aimed against Russia.
Even robust China and India are experiencing slower growth, curtailed ambitions, and broken dreams.
Unlike in Europe, however, historical memory in Asia continues to be wedded to current strategic ambitions.
The trick for Chinese policy is to reconcile Modi’s ambitions with China’s strategic goals.
Nonetheless, concrete and positive steps toward institutional consolidation – though far from achieving the ambitions of some – have been taken.
Their desires and ambitions are not unrealistic in the circumstances, but they are frustrated.
Whatever the value of such theories, it is evident that the frustration of young people’s ambitions in modernizing countries makes them the object of preachers of hate and tempts them to leave the course of plodding progress and turn to more dramatic action.
However, the politics of frustration, of ambitions raised and then thwarted, is clearly one such cause.
Weary of inter-Arab politics, and tired of the high price Egypt had paid for the Palestinian cause, Sadat wanted to move away from Nasser’s pan-Arab ambitions and an excessive focus on the question of Palestine toward an emphasis on Egypt’s role as a power lying at the strategic crossroads between Asia and Africa.
Western leaders repeatedly declare that no option is off the table to stem Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
His reforms – economic liberalization, cooperation with the European Court of Human Rights, improving the Kurdish minority’s rights, and undercutting the army’s Praetorian ambitions – are major advances in the history of the Turkish Republic.
Moreover, an expanding view of greater China implies that a resolution of the dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in China’s favor would be likely to embolden rather than satisfy its ambitions.
This means that they will have to limit China’s strategic and military options, even if they cannot constrain its ambitions.
The Council must match the EU’s policy ambitions with a set of concrete proposals to realize them, and then task the incoming European Commission in specific terms with implementing the platform.
He is betting that the anti-immigration issue will be good for the Republicans in November and for his own political ambitions.
With the United States focused on Asia and the Middle East (not to mention itself), it is up to EU leaders to grasp the nettle of limiting Russia’s ambitions in the eastern part of Europe.
France’s opposition to Syria’s presence in Lebanon was at least partly a reflection of disenchantment with Assad’s reformist ambitions, and the European Union has expressed similar reservations.
And all Arab states must coordinate their efforts to realize common ambitions, rather than continuing to pursue only narrow national interests.
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