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But Pakistan’s behavior indicates that it is, for now, satisfied with its arrangement with China – a sentiment that is probably reinforced, if unconsciously, by the billions of dollars in aid the country receives each year from the US.
If Europe is really serious about a common foreign policy, does the current arrangement make any sense?
In order to limit the consequences of disagreement, Americans should explain their position and offer alternatives when a proposed international arrangement is deemed undesirable.
One may doubt whether this will increase popular confidence in the political class, but for now, at least, the arrangement is working.
Under one such arrangement, the Kyoto Protocol, which runs through 2012, signatories agree to cap specific emissions.
What is needed now is a successor arrangement in which a larger number of governments, including the United States, China, and India, accept emissions limits or adopt common standards because they recognize that they would be worse off if no country did.
It is also the logic behind member states’ refusal to engage in pre-negotiations or to accept a transitional arrangement.
A tentative arrangement with Musharraf, together with Western support – particularly from the United Kingdom and the United States – eased her return, which hundreds of thousands of people welcomed, though terrorists greeted her with a string of suicide bombings.
If Merkel wants to protect her chancellorship, her only option after the 2013 general election is a grand coalition with the SPD, and, to emerge on top in such an arrangement, she needs every vote within the center-right camp that she can get.
If these ties are not strengthened soon through new institutional links, the Nato bridge, the only US-European institutional arrangement devoted to Atlantic cooperation, will also becorneshaky.
Given widespread disagreement – including, as the referendum makes plain, within the UK itself – over what the “right” arrangement should look like, finding a solution that works for everyone seems all but impossible.
After all, following what admittedly would be a period of dislocation, the UK could end up with some type of association arrangement that preserves some of its current privileges, thereby limiting longer-term disruption.
But with a fixed-quota arrangement, there would be no competition among South Korean steel exporters in the US market.
This unspoken arrangement dates from the founding of the Bretton Woods institution at a time when colonialism was still alive, and makes no sense in the twenty-first century.
No political, diplomatic, or territorial arrangement with such a group – whose fanatical ideas and vicious practices clash with all civilized societies’ fundamental norms – can be justified.
Even if the UK disapproved of the arrangement, it could not stop Scotland from adopting it – much as the European Union deplores but cannot stop Montenegro’s unilateral use of the euro.
And, beyond Europe, let us hope that negotiations between the US, Canada, and Mexico over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will result in an arrangement that still facilitates continental trade.
The problem in Asia often arises from something the French call "cohabitation" - an awkward arrangement by which a directly elected president must co-exist with a parliament controlled by a rival party or parties.
All wanted to integrate their economies and labor markets with Europe, and, after the Brexit vote, Britain was widely expected to try to negotiate a Norwegian-style EEA arrangement, rather than the rupture proposed by May.
For these reasons, when the EEA was established in 1994, it was intended only as a temporary transitional arrangement for countries – such as Austria, Sweden, Finland, and Norway – which planned to become EU members, but were not ready to join.
So far, every alternative arrangement that has been proposed has been problematic.
The negotiations should focus on creating as much value as possible for both parties, including through the bespoke UK-EU free-trade arrangement (FTA) that May aspires to create.
Founded in 1944 and financed by its member governments, the IMF was designed as a type of insurance arrangement to support a system of fixed exchange rates based on the American dollar and, ultimately, on gold.
Initially, the new arrangement worked very well.
Soon enough, it was no longer clear what IBM was contributing to the arrangement.
Under a double-freeze arrangement, North Korea might halt only its observable activities, such as its missile and nuclear tests.
The arrangement would shift more of the financing burden to Europe, where it properly belongs.
Having compromised, the IMF should now stick to its guns and refuse to make its arrangement for Greece operational until it is satisfied on both debt relief and technical assumptions.
And pre-qualification for IMF support would also imply access to the relevant regional financial arrangement, if any, thus helping integrate the overall system.
Second, just like the EU’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada, any negotiated arrangement between the EU and the UK will have to be unanimously accepted by all EU member states.
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