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It was a diplomatic term conveying the linkage between disparate policy areas (for example, in negotiating simultaneously on financial and security matters).
History is full of examples of small, dynamic centers galvanizing much larger areas.
In both cases, these areas created powerful demonstration effects.
Of course, in all of these areas, the critics have a point.
Four areas will be of vital importance:1. managing relations with Russia:2. defusing the transatlantic burden-sharing debate3. dealing with the effects of France’s policy toward NATO4. coping with the dilutive effects of expansionRelations between Russia and NATO appear to have benefitted from a convergence of skill and good fortune.
In all these areas great care -- and also the hand of providence -- will be required if NATO is to remain a meaningful, positive organization from the standpoint of security and defense.
These fragile areas now need the global community’s support.
We need to build resilient systems to ensure access to potable water for all people, and to improve water-delivery and sanitation provisions in Africa’s rapidly growing urban areas.
In Zimbabwe, after 4,300 people died in the 2008-2009 cholera pandemic, the AfDB and other donors supported the $43.6 million Urgent Water Supply and Sanitation Rehabilitation Project, which made emergency repairs to wastewater systems in urban areas, helping 2.5 million people.
But rapid urbanization is driving up industrial fossil-fuel consumption and household water consumption, and is increasing demand for food in areas where arable land is scarce.
Given that promoting sustainable urbanization and improving coordination would bolster progress in other priority areas (including women’s rights, climate change, youth unemployment, and literacy), sustainable urbanization must become a bureaucratic priority.
This makes its diffusion very slow: As I have argued previously, knowhow moves to new areas when the brains that hold it move there.
Indeed, the telecom companies Verizon and AT&T have established areas on their premises for eavesdropping activity by the National Security Agency.
To begin, we must expand our whole notion of culture to embrace new areas - fashion, architecture, design, photography, even computer design - which have been largely excluded from serious European debate.
Moreover, most of the existing housing tends to be in rural areas, whereas most of the jobs are in the cities.
And Japan is offering subsidies for hydrogen cars and creating new pedestrian-only areas.
But I also knew that investing in education meant investing in my country’s future, so I decided that, rather than sinking a great deal of money, sometimes unproductively, into these other areas, we would commit 20% of the annual budget to education.
He asked me several questions – about the role of international NGOs, as I recall – that seemed fairly distant from my areas of expertise.
Weather patterns are changing; the rains, in certain areas, have been failing; and great swaths of the continent have been suffering unusually severe drought.
The African-European Parliamentary Seminar in Stockholm this August (Sweden is the current EU President) emphasized the need for an implementation strategy to ensure that commitments made at Copenhagen in such areas as the development of climate change-related policies and legislative reform, are fulfilled.
European and other high-income countries, including the United States, must meet their obligation, in accordance with the “polluter pays” principle, to provide Africa with new, accessible, dependable, and reliable funding to support mitigation and adaptation strategies in areas such as disaster risk reduction, renewable energy, technology, and skill development.
The growing recognition of banks’ true function will be a game-changer in areas like monetary policy and financial regulation, enabling officials to tackle effectively problems like recurring banking crises, unemployment, and underdevelopment.
This increasingly is considered to be beyond the desirable equilibrium and that is why we presently are confronted in Germany and other continental European countries with the difficult task of restoring some of the private law areas and reduce, let me say the public law, the government intervention areas.
China’s announcement of a troop deployment to the Paracel Islands follows a month in which competing territorial claimants heightened their rhetoric, China’s naval presence in disputed areas became more visible, and the Chinese divided the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), whose foreign ministers could not agree on a communiqué for the first time in 45 years.
China might, indeed, have an interest in some border areas with fertile soil and moderate climate.
As part of America’s continued war-making, the Pentagon announced in December that US forces would remain indefinitely in Syria, ostensibly to support anti-Assad rebel forces in areas captured from ISIS, and of course without the assent of the Syrian government.
It is a war that is ideological, theological, and political, a war that cuts across worlds, cultures, and what we are right to call civilizations, from the lost city neighborhoods of France to those areas – for example, Kurdistan, Morocco, Bosnia, and Bangladesh – where enlightened Islam remains alive and well.
Most affected countries are working to increase supply by developing new sources of ground and surface water, using wastewater from nearby urban areas, harvesting rainwater, or reusing agricultural drainage.
But it runs the risk of getting the worst of each: a civilian leader without legitimacy coupled with a military leader too weak to fight the Islamic militants who virtually rule the tribal areas near Afghanistan.
But so far it has done little, even in high-priority areas (such as tackling fuel smuggling).
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