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A second episode occurred earlier this month at a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council, where British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson vetoed an EU statement of support for an ongoing Middle East peace effort.
And while Russia is beefing up its armed forces and introducing new battle tanks from an old rusting base, it does not have the economic and industrial might to sustain any long-term war effort – and its leaders know this.
It is partly self-defense, partly an assertion of the rule of law in difficult circumstances, and partly a constructive effort to redress the causes of frustration.
Europe, as one of the world’s wealthiest regions, ought to be at the forefront of the effort to promote environmental sustainability.
By putting paid to any revanchist tendencies in Russia concerning the Baltics, Europe is made a safer place, and Russia is helped in its effort to redefine itself as a national state and not an empire.
Indeed, the record of the International War Crimes Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), based in The Hague, may be instructive in judging the credibility of the strategy of using such trials as part of the effort to end civil and other wars.
Much responsibility rests with Lukashenko, but the EU must make every effort to coax Belarus into the family of European nations, where it belongs.
Many Chinese, however, came to view pro-Tibetan protests in Paris, London, San Francisco, Delhi, and elsewhere as an effort to sabotage the Olympics and keep China down after almost two centuries of perceived national humiliation.
American officials stress that they will not try to negate Russia’s strategic deterrent – an impossible effort, given the size and sophistication of Russian’s offensive nuclear forces.
This effort was to be the means through which a weary, dusty nation was to find a better economic future.
Instead, it was the effort to eliminate the market that failed, which is not exactly the same thing.
Moreover, the market still has enemies, for the effort to eliminate markets is not the only enemy that markets have.
The effort to eliminate markets by eliminating their basic conditions is a phenomenon of the twentieth century.
So the effort to eliminate markets failed, but that doesn't mean that enemies of the market system have disappeared.
There is therefore a continuous effort in a market economy to reduce or eliminate competition.
The political disputes now taking place in Great Britain, in Germany, and in other countries, concerns the effort to define the right equilibrium.
The new report, "Climate Change Impacts on the United States" (available on the website www.gcrio.org) is a remarkable accomplishment, even though it is really only one step in a long-term effort to understand the interactions of climate, environment, and human society.
During Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Chinese and Russian troops engaged in joint military maneuvers, and the two countries became dominant powers in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which, to some Western observers, looked like an effort to counterbalance NATO.
While vast resources were devoted to overthrowing Assad, the effort ultimately failed, but not before causing massive bloodshed and displacing millions of Syrians.
The WHC’s annual meetings, such as that which just ended in Istanbul, are the ideal forum for such an effort.
But he has already limited America’s objectives there to eliminating the small remaining Islamic State (ISIS) presence – an effort that should take about six months.
Ironically, this narrow approach also undermines the effort to achieve Trump’s sole objective, as a lasting defeat of ISIS and other jihadists will demand a credible political transition that permanently ends the civil war.
Yet, after the 2008 financial crisis erupted, President Barack Obama leveled off the US financing, and the global AIDS control effort got caught in a “half-way” mode.
Skeptics will scoff that Trump is an unlikely champion of such an effort; but, frankly, who would have guessed 15 years ago that Bush would be the key mover of the financial scale-up of the fight against AIDS?
Likewise, he expended considerable effort agitating against America’s military draft.
Meanwhile, President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign increasingly looks like a strategy to consolidate power, rather than an effort to reform China’s state for the benefit of its economy and society.
At the same time, an expansive reform effort cannot be advanced by economic decisions alone.
Pakistan’s macabre association with the Taliban stems mostly from its constant effort to pressure its mortal enemy, India.
Instead of persisting in a counterproductive war effort, the US should use its leverage on India and Pakistan to bring them back to peace negotiations.
And the COFINA deal is itself part of a larger debt-restructuring effort that is based on an unrealistic assessment of the commonwealth’s economic conditions.
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