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Truly comprehensive global growth breeds multipolarity, which, in the absence of an overarching diplomatic and geopolitical settlement, is a recipe for conflict.
History teaches us that rising powers inevitably compete with status quo leading powers, and that this conflict often leads to war.
Nor is a Sino-Japanese conflict over the East China Sea in the interests of the rest of Asia.
Fourth, we must broaden the concept of human security, introduced into the UN Security Council by Canada in recent years, to include not only protection of civilians in military conflict but also protection of civilians from health threats.
By February 2012, the war in Libya is over, and I am wrapping up my documentary film about the conflict.
In countries afflicted by religious conflict, such as Nigeria, this means helping religious leaders to develop strong inter-community relationships.
Deep-seated biases and resentments – China’s so-called century of humiliation following the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century and America’s inability to get out of its own skin when assessing the ideological threat posed by a socialist state like China – sustained a long-simmering distrust that set the stage for the current conflict.
Whatever the source, the conflict phase of codependency is now at hand.
Which brings us to the burning question: Will the US-China trade conflict end with a peaceful resolution or an acrimonious divorce?
The conflict phase of codependency frames it as a zero-sum battle: US allegations of Chinese intellectual property theft are portrayed by the Trump administration as nothing less than an existential threat to America’s economic future.
Transforming a zero-sum conflict of codependency into a positive-sum relationship of mutually beneficial interdependence is the only way to end this economic war before it turns into something far worse.
In the past, characterizing as a civil war a conflict in a complex region was a tacit warning that others should stay out.
But the civil war in Syria has much broader ramifications, which could lead to a wider regional conflict.
Ominously, the conflict looks increasingly like a proxy war between Iran and the Sunni Arab states, which regard their own minority Shia populations as a potential Iranian fifth column.
But denouncing Assad or Russia is unlikely to produce any effect except to assure domestic audiences that the West is on the side of the angels in the conflict.
We succeeded because we had tremendous support from every country that wanted to see the horrific conflict in Bosnia brought to an end.
Ideally, participants in a conflict think coolly and rationally about their long-term interests, and act accordingly; unfortunately, they rarely do.
Many European firms have complex ownership structures, with large shareholders whose interests often conflict with those of the company - hardly the best way to take sound business decisions.
As a recent story by Agence France Presse put it, Ahtisaari’s “most notable achievement was overseeing the 2005 reconciliation of the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement rebels, bringing an end to a three-decade-old conflict that killed some 15,000 people.”
US Secretary of State John Kerry, in his bid for an Israeli-Palestinian settlement, operated as if conflict resolution could be achieved through non-coercive solutions, deriving from the good will of the relevant parties.
If the US cannot provide this today, it must relinquish its monopoly on international conflict resolution.
It is time for the US to recognize that it cannot resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, defuse the Iranian nuclear dispute, change North Korea’s behavior, or stop the Syrian civil war on its own.
Within this new peace paradigm, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would become amenable to a truly international solution.
If Iran’s nuclear program demands negotiations with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, and North Korea’s requires the so-called “six-party talks,” why should the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict be left exclusively to the US?
Arthur Levitt, the former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, recognized the conflict: as many within the auditing firms focus on their own short-term interests, the integrity of the audits could be compromised.
Instead of being an asset, oil has become a liability that generates poverty, corruption, ethnic conflict, and ecological disaster.
Moreover, simple geography gives Putin the advantage in any escalation of the conflict in Ukraine.
In any case, the Conservative Party is sure to face the kind of internal conflict that destroyed the Labour party after 1931 and again after 1976.
The first days of the conflict in Georgia crushed this hypothesis.
Our moral sentiments both limit individuals’ abuse of the common good, expressed in the conflict between “me” and “us,” and maintain the coherence of the group, to support the competition between “us” and “them.”
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