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Against this background, efforts to bring the Kim regime back to the negotiating table – spearheaded largely by China – are misguided.
Such efforts aim to persuade North Koreans to freeze all missile and nuclear tests, in exchange for a scale-down and delay of annual joint exercises by US and South Korean forces.
Advocates of this so-called “freeze for freeze” approach say that such a tradeoff is only fair: the North cannot be expected to suspend its efforts to strengthen its defensive capabilities if the US and South Korea are pursuing supposedly hostile military cooperation in its near-abroad.
Given the magnitude of the task, however, it is important also to ensure effective coordination and harmonization of these efforts with the relevant standard-setters, regulators, and professional organizations.
But weaker oversight by the World Bank would leave loan recipients to monitor and enforce environmental and social standards themselves – regardless of their resources or political will to do so –thus jeopardizing efforts to defend the rights of indigenous peoples, resettle displaced people, mitigate environmental damage, or protect forests and biodiversity.
But simply giving up on Middle East nuclear nonproliferation efforts is not an option.
If successful, a wider approach would also leave the door open for the United States to re-engage with multilateral diplomatic efforts at a future date.
The Iranians must be made to understand that only by restricting their missile program and cooperating on efforts to restore stability to the region can they preserve their economic relations with Europe.
The key is to place people at the center of development efforts, by increasing investments in health care, education, and other public services.
While these efforts could not be more important, they must be backed by a longer-term strategy to strengthen these fragile countries’ defenses.
That is why it has fought to limit the rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees – an ambition that was included, thanks to the forum’s efforts, in the Paris agreement.
We need the industrialized countries and the giants of the developing world to redouble their efforts to reduce their emissions, so that global warming can be limited to 1.5 degrees.
The US believed that shifting Pakistani leaders’ attention from nuclear-weapons development to power-plant construction would, in addition to bolstering efforts to close the energy gap, limit Pakistan’s dependence on China for nuclear technology and reduce the risk of an immensely destructive war in South Asia.
And, instead of reducing the chances of a nuclear standoff in South Asia, the White House plan served only to distract attention from efforts to address tensions between India and Pakistan.
Changing laws or honing the tools of governance is important, but they mean little without sustained and determined efforts by political leaders.
New efforts to boost accountability – vital to reinforce legitimacy – will strengthen the system further.
They continue to preach that the respective “taboos” of their communities, the very issues that block all efforts to make peace – in particular, the status of Jerusalem and the right of “return” to Israel for Palestinian refugees – are untouchable and non-negotiable.
Now, though, the global economic crisis is sapping developed countries’ shaky efforts to fulfill their commitments for official development assistance (ODA) in order to achieve the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
And for the US, it means going beyond merely encouraging China to do more, by offering genuine support for Chinese efforts and a straightforward discussion that should stay in traditional diplomatic channels.
Better management of China’s considerable public assets – which include $3.5-4 trillion of foreign-exchange reserves, substantial land holdings, and majority ownership of the state-owned enterprises that dominate the economy – would complement these efforts.
But such efforts have so far focused on “hardware” modernization – allocating resources for the procurement and acquisition of selected advanced weapons technologies, systems, and platforms, and integrating them into existing organizational force structures and operational concepts.
For example, efforts to identify specific opportunities for collaborative weapons-related projects are to be pursued in accordance with “national policies and procedures.”
It ended the career of Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, Chief of the General Staff and a hardliner of the hardest sort, whose inconsistent and unconvincing efforts to justify the downing of the plane proved deeply embarrassing to the Kremlin.
Supporting such efforts, the Obama administration made the digital domain a core part of US trade policy.
Trump’s trade moves notwithstanding, efforts to update global rules governing the digital economy are continuing – within the WTO, and also as part of talks among the US, Canada, and Mexico to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Even with so many failed efforts in the past, there is a clear window of opportunity for the United States and Israel to urgently push for a lasting settlement.
This policy proved to be a failure – placing stability ahead of democracy brought neither, and isolated peace efforts went nowhere.
Bad perceptions only complicate future peace efforts, making a breakthrough even less likely.
This technology-driven shift in the way people create, curate, share, and apply data should be reflected in development efforts for two reasons.
First, policymakers are eager to attain more up-to-date data that can guide their efforts.
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