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The deal on the core nuclear issues is central to this approach, but so is a credible process for developing the trade and investment links that will facilitate Iran’s move from isolation to integration.
Today, innovation rarely results from individuals working in isolation; far more often than not, it is the product of sharing and collaboration.
By breaking Gaza’s political isolation, the ceasefire has fueled hope of relief from economic and financial deprivation.
Latin American leaders from both the left and the right have sharply condemned Lugo’s impeachment, and further isolation could destabilize the country.
After centuries of isolation and colonial slumber, the region is now awake to the potential benefits of greater unity.
That message suggests that what Syriza also stands for is the worst sort of change of all: nationalist isolation.
It is precisely this ambition that sets Iran apart from North Korea: whereas North Korea seeks nuclear weapons capability in order to entrench its own isolation, Iran is aiming for regional dominance and more.
Iran’s alternatives should be no less than recognition and security, or total isolation.
No single mechanism, it seems, can be studied in isolation; at a very basic level, factors like selection, drift, and epigenetics work together and become inseparable.
Because of the reward structure, these efforts could be coordinated, rather than pursued in isolation.
And none of the major fault lines of the Middle East can be resolved in isolation anymore.
The “extremists,” whom Bush expected to be defeated through economic sanctions, diplomatic isolation, and military action, have prevailed.
Neither Syria nor Iran – in fact, not even North Korea – has an interest in being the pariahs of the world community, and they fully understand the economic consequences of isolation.
The Soviet Union was an unsustainable empire; if it could not survive at a time when isolation and bipolarity were the order of the day, it certainly could not be recreated within today’s interconnected multipolar global system.
Finally, political Islam is common to all of the region’s conflicts, and should not be viewed – as it often is – in isolation from these countries’ economic woes.
Russia will mature much more slowly in isolation than it will if it is integrated into European institutions.
It is widely believed that Supreme Leader Khamenei put the current nutcase president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad into office as a means of counterbalancing former president Rafsanjani, and has been regretting this decision ever since as Ahmedinejad spouted off about the Holocaust and pushed Iran deeper and deeper into isolation.
Over the last decade, US leaders’ efforts to establish productive frameworks for multilateral cooperation with Latin America – including attempts to reinvigorate the Organization of American States and build up new forums like the Summit of the Americas – have run aground on their continued isolation of Cuba.
Decision-making cannot occur in isolation.
That crossroads exposed a deep cleavage between the young, self-confident Israeli-born generals, who were spiteful of the older generation’s “submissive” attitude, and the Diaspora-born politicians who, haunted by Holocaust memories and existentially fearful of international isolation, resisted making a break with the old politics of diplomatic Zionism.
For Russia, regime change in Syria – its last military outpost in the region – would be another bitter defeat; for Iran, it would mean losing its most important ally in the Arab world, implying even deeper isolation.
Europeans lean toward dialogue and incentives, the US toward isolation and penalties.
Not So Splendid IsolationPARIS – At the end of the nineteenth century, the British Empire pursued a policy of what it called “splendid isolation,” reflecting its leaders’ determination to stand aloof from international engagements.
Today, as recent events have shown, isolation is – more often than not – a mistake, an unenviable condition resulting from failed policies.
Cuba’s emergence from decades of forced isolation is a victory for the island, while North Korea’s pariah status has led it to the brink of collapse.
Continued isolation would have left the Cuban regime dangerously exposed, given the declining financial fortunes of its primary sponsor, petroleum-rich Venezuela.
The result can only be deeper – and ultimately more painful – isolation.
In an interdependent world, isolation is no longer a source of pride; on the contrary, it is a cause for concern.
What is certain – as every recent example shows – is that, in an increasingly transparent and interdependent world, isolation is less a splendor than a blunder.
In this scenario, bilateral tensions will continue to mount, because individual disputes are settled in isolation from one another, based on a specific quid pro quo, and thus lack any strategic coherence.So, however their current trade spat plays out, the US and China seem to be drifting toward long-term conflict.
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