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While economic interdependence among China, Japan, South Korea, and the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations continues to deepen, their diplomatic relations are as burdened by rivalry and mistrust as relations among European countries were in the decades prior to World War I.
Here, countries with fresh memories of repressive rule, such as Latin American and East European nations, have increasingly taken the lead in promoting human rights initiatives and defending the principles.
But with the new US approach to missile defense, there are now much better opportunities for an effective NATO-wide system that would enhance the territorial defense of our populations and nations.
Violators of international law must be made aware that the Middle East is subject to the same norms as other regions, and that the principles of democracy belong as much to its people as to those of more politically developed nations.
By 2020, the geography of innovation, in addition to that of the wealth of nations, will have undergone a massive rebalancing process.
But while traditional “innovation nations” such as the US, the United Kingdom, and France have experienced large declines in male labor-force participation, participation rates have actually increased in “trading nations” such as Holland and Germany.
Likewise, America’s proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership and offers of economic engagement to Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries are the latest initiatives underscoring its determination to strengthen its economic ties in the region.
Indeed, though the US Constitution stipulates that the power to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations” lies solely in the hands of Congress, the Obama administration is pressing legislators to approve so-called fast-track authority, under which they would have no say over either the TPP’s terms or the parties to it – or even the power to amend the treaty text in any way.
Indeed, although painful, acceptance of Western values by a society excluded for centuries from European history has gained momentum despite the fact that we often see ourselves as different from Western nations.
So, while agreeing that technology underpins the wealth of nations sounds more meaningful than confessing our ignorance, it really is not.
For example, the argument in Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson’s book Why Nations Fail is essentially that technology does not diffuse because the ruling elite does not want it to.
We must allow the creative genius of our old and vastly experienced nations to move from their position of being funded and tolerated by the state to one where they have gained, at long last, their economic and cultural freedom.
But a conviction only of Milosevic, however justified, without parallel penalties for his Croat, Bosniak, and Kosovo-Albanian counterparts would hardly have contributed to serious self-reflection within the post-Yugoslav nations.
Much responsibility rests with Lukashenko, but the EU must make every effort to coax Belarus into the family of European nations, where it belongs.
The position taken by the EU’s national leaders this October, that developing nations would need €100 billion worth of help annually by 2020 to cope with climate change, was an important step in the right direction.
As the Beijing Olympics approach, what the Chinese seem to want most – that the Games herald China’s return as a leader among nations – appears close to slipping from their grasp.
Over 6,700 Poles – more than any other nationality – have been honored by Israel as “Righteous Among the Nations” for standing up to the Nazis and saving Jews.
Economic growth rates regularly exceed 5% in many nations.
African nations must do their part by continuing to address corruption, eliminate red tape and reduce obstacles to private-sector growth.
The G8 nations meeting in Italy this week have a useful role to play.
And fourth, nations are likely to differ widely in their particular interests in this issue.
China’s announcement of a troop deployment to the Paracel Islands follows a month in which competing territorial claimants heightened their rhetoric, China’s naval presence in disputed areas became more visible, and the Chinese divided the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), whose foreign ministers could not agree on a communiqué for the first time in 45 years.
So China’s national security interest is to ensure that the gas-supplying nations of Central Asia have outlets to sell their gas that are not under Kremlin control.
Just as the nations of Western Europe exploited the Cold War stalemate to build the European Union, Asia must exploit the common interests that the United States, Japan, China, India, South Korea, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, and all the Southeast Asian countries have in securing a peaceful and stable Asia-Pacific.
There is, to start, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
European nations recognized this a half-century ago, and Asia’s countries must make that same, self-restricting choice now.
Representatives from the world’s major fishing nations, meeting this fall in Australia, have an opportunity to limit krill catches, thereby helping creatures that need krill to survive.
New elections to secure our democracy are the only way forward, both for us and for advancing Europe’s interest in seeing that genuine democracy takes root in the nations of the former Soviet Union.
What do existing institutions like the European Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or the African Union want for the international rules-based system for the future?
“As other nations step up their contributions, we look forward to the day when we can bring our warriors home.”
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