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And in Chihuahua, the state with the highest number of murders in the country, powerful gangs that were once united are now in open confrontation.
Had women been in charge of the AU, they would have known that the machismo of African men doesn't allow them to be shaken by threats of violent confrontation.
Such a confrontation would require an ideological component that is decidedly lacking on the Russian side.
Although some degree of confrontation with the US does help President Vladimir Putin unite the public while burnishing Russian elites’ nationalist credentials, Russia is not an ideologically motivated state.
In Lee’s judgment, China’s leadership will make a serious effort to avoid a military confrontation with the US – at least for the next several decades.
The ISI seemed to be keeping its lines of communications open to some Taliban in the hope that they could be used as a reserve force in case of another military confrontation with India or a precipitous American withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Though US-China relations are highly complex, playing out according to a dynamic often characterized by competition and sometimes even confrontation, the two sides are no strangers to cooperation on matters of mutual self-interest – matters like curbing North Korea’s nuclear program.
It is equally important, however, not to overdo the confrontation.
To achieve that goal, Russia requires not just the absence of confrontation with the US, but a genuinely strong and deep relationship with the world's sole superpower.
In this new world, the challenges are increasingly those of collaboration, not confrontation.
Third, instead of futile opposition between “liberal” and “social” models of economic development, we need a confrontation of the experiences of Great Britain and Sweden, on the one hand, and Germany and France, on the other.
The next act in America’s political drama, following the 2018 congressional midterm election, could be marked by a kind of reckoning, with the 2020 presidential campaign accompanied by civic breakdown and the escalation of violent confrontation that has lingered beneath the surface for years.
But Vietnam decided to back down, rather than face the risk of armed confrontation.
Iraq’s location on a major fault line between Sunnis and Shia – whose sectarian rivalry has become the main axis of confrontation in the region – has been a source of instability in the country for decades.
No More ResetsWASHINGTON, DC – With Ukraine in turmoil and the United States and Russia warily eyeing each other’s every move, the world seems to be on the brink of a prolonged confrontation similar to the Cold War.
Yes, he believes that Israel should end its policy of confrontation with the international community, and he truly wants a two-state solution.
Kim had watched the Cold War come to a peaceful end in Europe, and he wanted to bring his own country’s ongoing confrontation with the communist North to a similarly nonviolent conclusion.
Confrontation with the West, seemingly unavoidable after the Crimea Anschluss, will give rise to a “mobilization” regime.
Then, set on a course of continued confrontation with the West, Russia might hunker down into a siege mentality, with the risk that the Kremlin might seek to compensate for economic failure with further revisionist behavior.
By that time, it might be too late to stop a slide toward a wider confrontation.
But, for Mourdock and his supporters, “The time for being collegial is past – it’s time for confrontation.”
Iran needs to focus on developing all of its human and material resources to become part of a region moving from confrontation to cooperation.
Just as conservative forces in Iran can be expected to try to stop an agreement, forces thriving on confrontation in the United States and elsewhere will do the same.
But Obama might soon realize that most of his predecessors started as believers in international cooperation, until events forced them to fall back on a strategy of confrontation.
The Trade Numbers GameCAMBRIDGE – The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – a mega trade deal covering 12 countries that together account for more than one-third of global GDP and a quarter of world exports – is the latest battleground in the decades-long confrontation between proponents and opponents of trade agreements.
But Tsipras's first decisions have antagonized the EU and created a climate of confrontation.
Anything short of a military confrontation on the Korean Peninsula counts as a strategic win for China.
Second, the disastrous US-led war in Iraq has led Iran’s leaders to conclude that the leading Western power has been weakened to the point that it is dependent on Iran’s goodwill, and that high oil prices have made the West all the more wary of a serious confrontation.
The Iranian regime’s analysis might prove a dangerous miscalculation, because it is likely to lead sooner rather than later to a “hot” confrontation that Iran simply cannot win.
Knowledge of the potentially horrible consequences of a military confrontation and of the equally horrific consequences of an Iran in possession of the atomic bomb must force the US to abandon its policy of no direct negotiations and its hope for regime change.
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