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The MSB said Russia’s goal was to fuel Swedish domestic disputes and divert attention away from Russian activities elsewhere in Europe.
Once the preserve of a handful of scholars, the Ibn al-‘Alqami story now plays a prominent part in today’s Sunni- Shia disputes.
But the region’s “history problem” has been intensifying lately, with growing nationalism among major actors like China, Japan, and South Korea fueling disputes over everything from territory and natural resources to war memorials and textbooks.
If they fail to work together to stem the revival of bitter historical disputes, their relationship will remain frozen, playing into China’s hands.
By reinforcing negative stereotypes of rival countries, such squabbles over history and remembrance sow fragmentation and instability, and have certainly fueled the region’s recent territorial disputes.
Such discussions might help negotiators settle ongoing disputes over the "Codex Alimentarius" (global food standards set by the World Health Organization and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization), the EU regulation on labeling and tracing genetically modified organisms, and the application of World Trade Organization rules.
For China, mending relations with its Southeast Asian neighbors, which have been damaged by territorial disputes, is a higher priority.
That process is already underway, as China now appears willing to address the disputes multilaterally, through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Beyond diagnostic disputes in individual cases, psychiatry's absence of objective diagnostic tests implies something more radical.
Nor does it include Asia’s geopolitical risks arising from the territorial disputes between China and many of its neighbors, including Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Vietnam.
That calls for a legal system that can adjudicate disputes and ensure fair, equitable, and timely treatment.
The alternative of relying on a third-party multilateral organization to act as mediator in such disputes, the report explains, has little support from G-20 countries.
The figures have been challenged, but no one disputes that the number is large and that, in some areas, it is having an impact on the survival of other species.
Yes, such measures have helped to maintain open lines of communication, preventing small disputes from escalating into violent conflict.
China can take some measures to fight back, such as raising tariffs on imports of selected US products; but it should prevent trade disputes from escalating into a trade war.
But America’s neutrality on sovereignty disputes threatens to undermine its bilateral security alliances (which, by preventing countries like Japan from turning toward militarism, actually serve Chinese interests).
If those same powers – the five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany – showed the same will to work together to resolve other disputes, the world might enter a new era of cooperation and stability.
Ongoing disputes between Russia and the European Union reflect this mutual distrust.
The issues that divide India and China, however, extend beyond territorial disputes.
In 2002, China and ASEAN agreed on a legally non-binding code of conduct for managing such disputes, but, as a large power, China believes that it will gain more in bilateral rather than multilateral negotiations with small countries.
What the new law will not do, however, is address the most serious property rights disputes: land seizures and forced evictions for urban redevelopment.
The central authorities have recognized the link between abuses, unrest, and the need to develop legal services for preventing the escalation of disputes.
And the media were prohibited from reporting cases involving land disputes and forced evictions.
Seeking a way out of this difficult situation, the Supreme Leader declared that the electoral disputes must be settled in through legal channels, not on the street.
A longer-term concern is the rise of China – an economic and demographic powerhouse whose expanding military capacity has enabled it to take an increasingly assertive stance in territorial disputes, including with Japan in the East China Sea.
But these earlier disputes occurred within a very different geopolitical context – the Cold War – and the bygone intellectual and political framework of containment.
Resolving disputes requires mutually accepted principles that guide how individuals and countries interact.
Fortunately, Franco-German disputes, while often seemingly fierce, do not last long, and can even serve to refocus people’s attention on the importance of the relationship.
There may be disputes in some cases, but the system has brought a degree of legal certainty across the single market that the EU’s member states could not have achieved on their own.
When allies engage in such disputes – as the US and Japan did in the late 1980s – it is generally safe to assume that the real issue is economic.
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