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But a closer look at what he is doing, and not doing, shows clearly that he has mostly heard the call of his campaign contributors from the oil and coal industries, and that he has once again put their interests over the global interest in reducing emissions.
For the SPD – which seems to be nostalgic for the early 1970s, when the party was led by the charismatic Willy Brandt – this distinction might work well; public opinion polls show that Germans tend to be much closer to the SPD than to Merkel on Russia.
But narrowing the global governance deficit requires closer cooperation, and a willingness to invest in civil-society organizations that hold governments accountable.
China must know that the material advantages from closer ASEAN-China economic relations will not be enough to guarantee smooth diplomatic relations.
On closer scrutiny, what passed as state-of-the-art thinking on economic policy turns out to have been based on some crude rules of thumb.
Finally, world leaders should seek to establish closer forms of international cooperation on nuclear security.
The case for a morally neutral diplomacy remains more compelling than ever, for on closer inspection, it is also a case in favor a foreign policy based on clear moral values.
Unfortunately, that point may be closer than anyone – government or investor – expects.
And businesses must be seen to care, by paying closer attention to the social and political implications of their actions.
Along with closer economic cooperation in recent years, Japan and Vietnam have been strengthening strategic ties.
Yet a closer look shows that matters are more complicated; in fact, Trump could precipitate a great decline in the dollar.
What’s worse, the way such people then act tends to edge us closer to Huntington’s nightmare scenario.
The other, affirmed by the opposition, envisions closer cooperation within the Weimar Triangle (France, Germany, and Poland).
Cameron’s remarks (“the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf”) came closer to the institutional skepticism of Ronald Reagan’s inaugural address in 1981 (“[I]t is not my intention to do away with government,” but “to make it …work with us, not over us”) than to Obama’s “European” vision.
That does not mean Russian leaders are any closer to accepting NATO expansion as a major contribution to European and Russian security, or to establishing an institutionalized dialogue with the West that respects the sovereignty of Russia’s neighbors.
Two earlier attempts at closer monetary cooperation in Europe, the Werner Plan initiated in 1971 and the European Monetary System (EMS) of 1979, both failed.
In other words, while Ukraine’s territorial integrity would technically be preserved, the eastern part of the country would have closer ties with Russia than with the rest of Ukraine – similar to the relationship between Bosnia’s Republika Srpska and Serbia.
It is likely, however, that major governments will soon discover that the insecurity created by non-state cyber actors will require closer cooperation among governments.
It is amazing because France is not just a founding member of the European Community, but also has been the main driving force behind all major steps toward “ever closer union.”
Interestingly, a closer look at Japan’s performance over the past decade suggests little reason for persistent bearish sentiment.
That explains why Park has sought closer ties with China, even though South Korea’s natural regional partner is democratic Japan.
But a closer look at the global energy system, together with a more refined understanding of the emissions challenge, reveals that fossil fuels will likely remain dominant throughout this century – meaning that carbon capture and storage (CCS) may well be the critical technology for mitigating climate change.
In many developed countries, the decline of mental hospitals has brought psychiatric services into closer professional contact than ever with these and other medical domains.
As the law’s provisions take effect, policymakers must start paying closer attention.
But, despite the best efforts of the OSCE, the European Union, the United States, Ukraine, and even Russia, the conflict is no closer to a settlement than it was when the process began.
It made a wretched start at independence when the industrial region of Transdnistria – populated by Russian and Ukrainian speakers who feared that the majority of Moldovans, who are of Romanian descent, planned closer ties with Romania – declared independence.
That way lies not accommodation with the devil, but recognition that the current situation is unsustainable; inflammatory confrontation is closer than we think; and catastrophe can be averted only by cool, level-headed diplomacy of the kind that, until now, has been in unhappily short supply.
It may be more natural for the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia to strive for closer regional cooperation with Austria and Slovenia, the contours of which can already be seen in some existing regional groupings.
As a result, the prospect of closer cooperation remains distant.
The models for the balance of powers, the functioning of the judiciary, and local democracy must be inspired by European forms, which are closer to Georgian reality than Anglo-Saxon models of the American type.
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