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Of course, an effective OSCE mission, confined to Tirana and comprised of experts that the country still needs, would be useful.
Though the world is becoming increasingly interconnected, and challenges are no longer confined to national or even regional borders, major powers are increasingly reluctant to assume global responsibilities.
Until now, efforts to resolve the conflict have been confined to the contours of the Oslo model, according to which the route to Palestinian self-determination traverses bilateral agreement on borders, settlements, territory, and the right of return.
In classical nineteenth-century capitalism, politics and economics were idealized as distinct spheres, with interactions between government and business confined to the (necessary) raising of taxes for military adventures and the (harmful) protection of powerful vested interests.
These dynamics and related challenges are not confined to advanced countries.
Clearly, China’s rising clout is no longer confined to Asia.
The US has even spurned World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy’s desperate attempt to get member states to support a wholly emasculated agreement – described by critics as Doha Lite and Decaffeinated – which is mainly confined to some concessions to the least-developed countries.
His strategy seems to be to bribe them with $4 billion to accept a (temporary) “bantustan” solution (so named for the nominally autonomous states to which South Africa’s apartheid regime confined most of the country’s black majority).
Unlike the Japanese experience, this crisis involved the entire world, rather than being confined to a single country.
Let us hope that they remain confined to the printed page.
Free Kurdistan will be a living reproach to the many false nations, anti-nations, and prison nations across the Middle East, in which Kurds, among others, remain confined.
This new emphasis on regional security is not confined to governments.
But India confined its response to diplomatic action.
Better still, initiatives are no longer confined to individual cities.
But this tolerance is confined to the skilled and the wealthy.
Even the more meticulously factual media outlets have, in recent decades, confined their coverage to a narrow range of topics that tend to confirm the political establishment’s self-serving narratives.
Researchers are no longer confined within their ivory towers, but work as part of complex global networks alongside private-sector participants.
When international engagement with Africa is confined to the silo of development, the continent is effectively reduced to a set of problems for external actors to solve.
Today, the debate about Europe’s frontiers is not confined to officials or think tanks.
Energy-policy myopia has not been confined to the US.
Such developments are not confined to Britain; examples of this approach can be found everywhere.
This transformation has placed the world in the hands of a younger generation, more technologically savvy than their parents and connected to one another through social networks that are not confined by territory, language, or government.
An initiative confined to migrants would merely reinforce the growing xenophobia and extremism in Greece.
Without a significant shift, the congressional investigations will continue to remain confined to the standing House and Senate committees, where they will likely remain understaffed and under-motivated.
Yet at this moment of growing European crisis, while there is still time to act, the Fund is confined to the sidelines.
The responsibility for our collective failure and inaction is not confined to international diplomats and policymakers; it is shared by all of us.
While knowledge of the plan was initially confined largely to Kenyan government officials, it was not long before its contours began to be revealed.
While inferior to the open alternation of power between two or more political parties, the evolution of United Russia into something resembling the LDP would still leave Russia in a much better shape than a personal regime confined to the Kremlin.
Banning or restricting veils, however, is not confined to Muslim countries seeking to maintain a secular orientation in politics.
The difficulties presented there are not confined to the chronically unstable Middle East, and Europe must confront the situation immediately.
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