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Previously, EU policy was to isolate Belarus, which itself was seeking isolation.
If things go wrong, China could move to embrace isolation.
Because China’s rise is an irreversible fact, all of those who believe that it must become more of a “responsible stakeholder” in world affairs cannot wish for its return to nationalist isolation.
Once deemed the “Tibet of Latin America” because of its excessive protectionism and intolerable isolation, Colombia embarked on market-based reforms - the “apertura” - which Chile, Mexico and Argentina were then experimenting with.
Germany has historically never benefitted from isolation.
Perhaps that is why some in the international community are similarly hesitant about easing Myanmar’s isolation.
Moreover, isolation would only strengthen the sense of victimhood that fuels intolerant Russian nationalism, and it would compromise the world’s interests in tackling nuclear proliferation, addressing climate change, or stabilizing Afghanistan.
It is also clear that the decisions to violate international law, despite the risk of economic isolation, were made in an ad hoc fashion by Putin’s innermost circle.
A strategy of isolation has resulted in a dangerous alliance of convenience among extremist forces excluded from political processes and power structures.
American foreign policy has traditionally oscillated between intervention and isolation.
Kim Dae Jung's visit to North Korea provided Kim Jong Il with a historic opportunity to convey the message that North Korea is breaking out of self-imposed isolation.
Such isolation breeds instability.
Tuchman describes how a series of individual decisions, all of which seemed sound when considered in isolation, had the unintended consequence of leading Europe into World War I.
Its leaders’ apparent inability to think in strategic terms, and their indifference to the tribunal of global public opinion, is resulting in growing frustration among its citizens and, what may be more dangerous, deepening international isolation.
The process of isolation of Israel starts in the heads of its citizens, and is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
To avoid this outcome, the water crisis must not be considered in isolation from other global sustainability challenges.
And with Saudi Arabia and four Sunni allies imposing isolation on Qatar, in part owing to the Qataris’ close relations with Iran, this conflict has reached its first potential tipping point at the very center of the region, the Persian Gulf.
This simple act could demonstrate the importance of Europe’s soft power, which frightens the Islamic Republic more than the threat of military force by keeping the media spotlight on the regime’s human rights record and emphasizing its growing isolation.
And European Muslims must stop acting (and reacting) to their problems in isolation.
President Barack Obama even announced last week the appointment of an “Ebola Czar” to manage the detection, isolation, and control of the virus in the US.
China argues that it is subject to a US policy of isolation and containment.
President Bush was simply unable to get other governments to back to the policy of isolation he sought to impose on President Hugo Chavez’s government.
Although many Iranian leaders no doubt toy with the idea, others are carefully weighing the costs of such a venture – the risks of preventive strikes from outside, increased isolation, and a regional nuclear arms race.
The threat of sanctions remains potent, and the Iranian business community – not to mention the public – has felt the sting of isolation.
But here, his record is weak, and his pronouncements only exacerbate the problem by increasing Iran’s isolation from the global economy.
This means that government can no longer afford to view issues in isolation; its operations need to be de-compartmentalized and flattened, as well as streamlined.
The countries of Eastern Europe no longer function in isolation from the world market.
Extreme poverty is almost synonymous with extreme isolation, especially rural isolation.
But mobile phones and wireless Internet end isolation, and will therefore prove to be the most transformative technology of economic development of our time.
On the strength of that ennobling idea, Myanmar/Burma has embraced democratic reform and rid itself of diplomatic and economic isolation.
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