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In fact, in all three confrontations since the nineteenth century, it was Russian action, motivated by domestic concerns, that spurred European or Western efforts at strategic containment.
Suppose there is a crisis in the Persian Gulf over Iran’s efforts to get nuclear weapons.
Failure of the current proposal would mean an effective end to all efforts to reform the UN, with disastrous consequences for people across the world who depend on the aid provided by the UN Development Program, the security provided by the UN’s numerous peacekeeping operations, or the myriad other services rendered by UN agencies.
This threatened the authority of the King, who had overseen the religious establishment, as well as feminists’ efforts to moderate Morocco’s Family Law, which had been based on a rigid view of religious teachings.
Women’s advocacy has also shaped a new approach to poverty alleviation in Morocco, in the form of the National Initiative for Human Development, which integrates efforts to improve education with better sanitation and housing.
And, at the center of these efforts will be education – particularly one goal on which we are still falling short: literacy.
Our education efforts must include the promotion of innovative ways to address these challenges and overcome them.
Efforts and initiatives to catalyze a more rapid move toward greener practices by companies, investors, and capital markets are multiplying, spearheaded partly by business leaders eager to profit from the transformation.
And, once again, China has rebuffed all efforts to secure a multilateral agreement to end the protracted – and increasingly incendiary – standoff.
China obviously disagrees, which is why it is doubling down on its efforts to secure strategic hegemony in the South China Sea.
Under the rubric of disaster relief, counter-terrorism efforts, or other non-traditional security cooperation, the US and Japan could regularly dispatch flotillas and occasionally deploy major surface vessels such as aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships.
Their efforts bolstered Russia’s transformation into a stable, prosperous, and internationally engaged country.
Previous efforts to enhance coastal protection can provide a roadmap to reconstruction that will help to avert future damage.
Given all of this, the ECB was entirely justified in responding (belatedly) to the 2008-2009 global recession by lowering interest rates and undertaking quantitative easing, regardless of those efforts’ contribution to a depreciation of the euro.
Because of the reward structure, these efforts could be coordinated, rather than pursued in isolation.
Some of these research efforts were never implemented, but many found their way into specialized devices.
And those payouts are modest compared to the research and development efforts they stimulate.
Iraq and Japanese IsolationEvery country that has sent troops to aid America's efforts in Iraq is under pressure, as the decision by the Philippines to withdraw its small contingent shows.
In the end, they agreed on international efforts under UN Security Council Resolution 1546.
Thus, its Self Defense Forces must continue fulfilling their duties of "humanitarian and restoration efforts," while cooperating with Japan's key ally, the US, as a member of an integrated multinational force under UN leadership.
To be sure, there are cases where the absence of trust-building efforts could partly explain why a conflict drags on.
But, despite the best efforts of the OSCE, the European Union, the United States, Ukraine, and even Russia, the conflict is no closer to a settlement than it was when the process began.
Two European academics, Len Fisher and Ibo van de Poel, emphasize that the results of scientists’ efforts to understand the basic laws of nature form the basis of technological innovations.
For example, Bill Gates has called for a tax on robots, which could slow the pace of automation, and efforts to fund other types of human-centered employment.
Efforts to preserve Africa’s natural resources and to exploit the vast potential of the sub-continent’s renewable energies are not free.
Linking public and private efforts to provide two billion Africans with renewable energy will therefore be one of the major challenges of the coming decades.
Zenawi has largely escaped sanction from his Western allies, in part because the erudite ex-Marxist had a friendly relationship with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and cooperated closely with the Bush administration in counter-terrorism efforts in the Horn of Africa.
And here, ironically, efforts by some Western governments to sanitize social media of fake or violent material have played into the autocrats’ hands.
While the goals of these cleansing efforts – to prevent the type of electoral interference that Russia has perfected, for example – are laudable, an unintended consequence has been censorship of honest journalists reporting on real stories in some of the world’s most dangerous places.
Myths and misconceptions have taken root, and these have outlasted subsequent efforts to provide reliable information.
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