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Another type of defensive reaction – this time to outward FDI – may well arise once the offshoring of services gathers more speed.
And it should not be a defensive policy of the sort that tends to concentrate on poor-quality land.
In the Yom Kippur War, as Syrian forces threatened to break the country’s defensive lines, Israeli decision-makers recoiled even from threatening to use nuclear weapons.
But, since 2008, al-Shabaab’s top leaders have mutated into hyper-violent ultra-extremists whose actions appear to have nothing to do with Islam or defensive jihad and everything to do with raw survivalism.
Commuting the Motor-Neuron Death SentenceLONDON – The American baseball player Lou Gehrig was known not only for his offensive and defensive skill, but also for never missing a game due to injury or illness.
For young British Muslims, our globalized world challenges key beliefs, destabilizing their identity and thus encouraging a defensive response.
Nor will defensive measures like constructing electronic firewalls and creating redundancies in sensitive systems.
In this account, Russian reactions are to be seen as largely defensive.
Since these groups were thrown on the defensive for a while after the old regimes were toppled, initially they did not have the political power to oppose rapid and irreversible changes.
Fortunately, NATO, as an actor with a defensive conventional-force posture in the Baltic region, has plenty of reason to support transparency.
Talks are needed, if only to try to find out the North’s true intentions: is its nuclear program a defensive or offensive project?
A majority of patents are used not to produce commercial value, but to create defensive legal thickets that can keep potential competitors at bay.
Not surprisingly, a contagious globalization that increases vulnerability inevitably triggers preventive and defensive strategies that are not always proportionate or reasonable.
The xenophobia and chauvinism that some of the defensive strategies can awaken may end up doing more harm than the threats from which they were intended to protect us.
As for climate change, the positions of the emerging economies were until mid-2009 negative or defensive.
The key questions are whether NATO’s doctrine of common defense is currently directed at one country in particular, and whether nuclear force remains the Alliance’s major defensive tool.
That is how defensive some Hindus in India have become over the version of history to which they subscribe – even when, as in Padmavati’s case, that history may well be nothing more than a figment of collective imagination.
Historically, most political borders were defensive lines – places where one country’s army prevented the movement of another country’s army.
Kim gave away little, and was probably stunned when, for the first time ever, a US president accepted at face value North Korea’s supposed anxiety about US joint military exercises with South Korea (which the North Koreans know to be defensive in purpose).
American negotiators – the reluctant midwives of South Korea’s increasing responsibility in the field of atomic energy – remain steadfast in their opposition to South Korea’s drive for improved defensive capabilities and a more advanced energy policy, despite the potential strategic benefits.
Three influential American think tanks have already done so, and arrived at the conclusion that the United States should begin supplying Ukraine not only with more non-lethal aid – such as drones, armored Humvees, and medical equipment – but also with “lethal defensive military assistance," in the form of light anti-armor missiles.
European governments, however, remain unwilling to reconsider their position on supplying defensive equipment to Ukraine, and have instead reiterated that a diplomatic solution is the only option.
That is why Ukraine's external partners must also help to strengthen the country's defensive capabilities.
If the Russian-backed separatists view Ukraine's defensive capacity as a serious weakness, there will be little to compel them not to push forward in pursuit of their ambitions.
Security experts should identify which actions powers like the US and Europe could take to improve Ukraine's defensive capabilities.
The risk may be slight, but if the consequences should it materialize are great enough, the expected cost of disaster may be sufficient to warrant defensive measures.
There have already been seven governments since 2011, with social turmoil pushing policymakers into a defensive mode that has stifled any reformist impulse.
The Saudi judicial system is one of the most formidable obstacles to women’s aspirations, relying on Islamic interpretations that protect a defensive patriarchal system.
The revision establishes the future direction of Japan’s military posture by delegating greater authority to the commanders of the Self-Defense Forces to initiate defensive actions against immediate threats.
But what China considers a defensive imperative could be perceived as aggressive and expansionist by its neighbors and the United States.
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