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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.
They can follow Putin into isolation, probably ending up under Chinese influence (indeed, from China’s perspective, its claim to Siberia all the way to Lake Baikal is even stronger than Russia’s claim to Crimea).
But, after eight years of America’s self-imposed isolation under Bush, it is a risk worth taking.
He shared the seeming isolation of Tudjman's harshest critics, becoming a member, but not the paramount leader, of the small Croat National Party – an organization clearly in opposition but otherwise nondescript.
All this will be costly, but less so than an isolated defence, an isolation doomed to fail.
By contrast, we in Latin America and Eastern Europe know that democracy has trouble surviving in times of crisis, poverty, and isolation.
They never did, but we are now seeing a globalization of solidarity, of support for cooperative regional patterns and the need to rethink international agencies, and the impracticality of isolation.
At the same time, he is associated with Iranian reformists, who believe that Iran must enact major domestic and foreign policy changes to escape its economic crisis and international isolation.
The rise of Islamist regimes throughout the Arab world, and the subsequent shift of regional alliances, has increased the Jewish state’s isolation.
No display of military muscle could help; only robust peace diplomacy could end Israel’s isolation.
Moreover, the central bank’s decision not to defend a sharply falling ruble, together with Putin’s prohibition of Western food imports, will lead to a sharp decline in living standards and a growing sense of global isolation.
Economic sanctions and political isolation have, of course, deeply hurt the regime, especially the Revolutionary Guards, whose leaders and industries have been directly targeted by the international community.
Often one of the first signs of schizophrenia--occurring well before manifestations such as hearing voices--is social isolation.
Recall the extreme isolation that preceded the appearance of Rilke's startling voice.
Our hypothesis is that voices arise from different combinations of these three factors--reduced brain integration, social isolation, and high levels of emotionality.
Putin’s reelection almost certainly means another six years of economic stagnation and international isolation.
On economic isolation, Africa needs help with the basics – roads and ports – but there is also an opportunity to “leapfrog” technology.
Cell phones and Internet connectivity could reach all of Africa at low cost, ending the economic isolation of hundreds of millions of people.
To be sure, mini-grids are not meant to operate in isolation for perpetuity; they are at their best when feeding power into larger distribution networks.
Self-determination no longer means isolation, because achieving national independence nowadays means only to return to the world scene with a new status.
In short, no nation on this changing, shrinking planet can truly address its own problems in isolation.
As the June 2009 election protests showed, Iran’s urban youth desperately want to end the country’s isolation, but they have increasingly found that the only way out of isolation is to study or work abroad – and never return.
Rapid and effective isolation of infected cases, together with efficient tracing and monitoring of the contacts made by those infected with SARS, allowed public health officials in Hong Kong, Toronto, Singapore, and Vietnam to contain the epidemic.
The consequence of Tudjman's policies – always projected in a harsh, bullying style – led to Croatia's isolation from Europe and America.
But, unless China is brought into such a framework, its sense of isolation will grow, as will the temptation to define its interests in ways that are irreconcilable with those of its neighbors.
And by going out of his way to alleviate North Korea’s international isolation, while getting almost nothing in return, he has strengthened China’s position in East Asia.
The solution is not isolation, but a strategy of selectivity similar to what President Dwight Eisenhower advocated in the 1950’s.
Nation-building at home is not the isolation that critics fear; on the contrary, it is central to a smart foreign policy.
India’s Push to Center Stage of the World EconomyCAMBRIDGE: Twenty years ago, China ended decades of self-imposed economic isolation and changed the shape of the global economy.
But they – together with psychological methods, including enforced nakedness, social isolation, threats using guns, drills, or attack dogs, and fabricated assaults on a victim’s loved ones – can be devastating.
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