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The aim must be to prevent a
clash
of nationalisms and encourage a cooperative framework in which the region’s major countries interact and develop respect for each other’s interests.
The impossible deadlines, the always ambiguous information the president is fed, and the complex choices that he must make are too frequently bound to
clash
with political constraints and the resistance to change of both allies and foes.
That would be an enlightening result particularly when public debates are dominated by extreme positions – the
clash
between Ehrlich and Simon being a classic illustration.
Turkey – locked in conflict with Russia, estranged from Egypt and Iran, and pursuing policies on Syria, the Islamic State (ISIS), and the Kurds that
clash
with those of its NATO allies – has lately found itself increasingly isolated in a sea of chaos.
Is this violence made inevitable by the
clash
of cultures, religions, and ethnicities?
This was an identity
clash
that had nothing to do with the essential messages of Christianity.
The problem is that if bodies like the FPC become as important to central banks as monetary policy committees, we may be left wondering which target takes precedence when they
clash.
Of course, these trends need not have led to a
clash.
Turkey's 9/11So far, al-Qaeda has successfully inflamed the dreaded
"clash
of civilizations."
At the heart of this Franco-German war is the
clash
between two Rs: the German commitment to rectitude versus the French penchant for redistribution.
Put differently, authentic German rectitude cannot be achieved without a form of redistribution that is bound to
clash
with the interests of, say, a French or a Greek oligarchy too lazy to come to terms with its own unsustainability.
I have learned, however, in the more than ten years that have passed since I felt that burning, to honor exile, doing so in the name of all that is challenge and epiphany, of all the doubts and the lifelong apprenticeship it implies, for its emptiness and richness, for the unfettering of myself and the
clash
within myself.
The
clash
of two visions of Europe is eroding the political stability of an area that once represented the best model and greatest hope for benign regionalism.
If Americans’ demand for housing picks up and businesses want to increase their investment, a
clash
between China’s lower saving rate and a continued high fiscal deficit in the US could drive up global interest rates significantly.
In all of these cases, many people consider hatred and conflict inevitable, owing to a fundamental
clash
of values and interests.
Above all, I lack evidence to convince my comrades at DiEM25, the Democracy in Europe Movement, to trust Macron’s capacity and willingness to
clash
with an establishment that is pursuing the failed policies that have fed support for Le Pen.
They fear the future, because the future means either market-oriented reforms or further economic and political downgrading, both of which are seen as unacceptable, if only because they
clash
with French self-esteem.
The
clash
of religions is exacerbated by the indecisiveness of President Olesegun Obasanjo.
In the Middle East, for example, identity politics is manifesting itself in its most sinister form: a chaotic and violent
clash
between Sunni and Shia Muslims, exemplified by the rise of the Islamic State.
By 1988, Libya’s
clash
with the West reached its apex with the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Indeed, anybody hoping for an obvious
clash
of left and right during the recent presidential election campaign was bound to be disappointed, because the answer to the second question is even more emphatic today: President Putin's re-election was never in doubt.
However there is some ambiguity about what they should do when the claims of the state
clash
with those of the umma (the worldwide community of Islam).
In his now famous thesis on the
"Clash
of Civilizations" he gave Turkey as an example of a " torn country," one divided internally, according to him, between East and West, a country neither in Europe nor in the Middle East, with a fault line running within rather than at the border.
If Turkey succeeds, it will show that there is nothing inevitable about the 21st century becoming one of a
"Clash
of Civilizations," during which the Cold War's divisions are replaced by new religious antagonisms that resemble the Middle Ages.
Europe and Turkey together must prove to themselves, and to the world, that Huntington's
"clash
of civilizations" is not unavoidable; that Christians, Jews, Moslems, and other believers and non-believers can build the "European Project" together; that a society with a large majority of Moslems, can be democratic and secular; and that Turks and Greeks can do what the French and Germans have done: overcome a century-long antagonism to build a "good neighborhood".
But maximal security – for example, an insufferably long timetable for withdrawal, unreasonable territorial demands wrapped up as security needs, an Israeli presence in the Jordan valley, and full control of Palestinian airspace and the electromagnetic spectrum – would inevitably
clash
with Palestinians’ view of what sovereignty entails.
Sadly, in this
clash
of titans, postcommunist Russia's main values--liberty and private property--hardly get a mention.
Both involve disputes about sharing costs, complicated by a
clash
of values, at the center of which lies a newly dominant Germany.
The
clash
of values also impedes compromise.
Hamas also emerged as the moral victor after the latest – but surely not the last – military
clash.
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