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Second, the US should pursue its sometimes-valid foreign-policy objectives in the region through the United Nations Security Council.
The current approach of building US-led “coalitions of the willing” has not only failed; it has also meant that even valid US objectives such as stopping the Islamic State are blocked by geopolitical rivalries.
Here, there is a strong case for having EU-wide targets rather than simply national objectives and sanctions for countries that do not liberalize their markets.
To put it bluntly, insightful analysis has its uses, but change will not happen without a widespread social and political convergence around shared values and objectives – something that is sorely missing in many countries today.
This surely must be one of the EU’s objectives.
But coordinated action – or even agreement on broadly shared policy objectives – has remained elusive.
Since owning the media allows powerful interests to achieve their coveted political or economic objectives, political influence, not profit, drives media behavior.
That framework must also support the private sector and investors in their effort to combine profit maximization with the pursuit of long-term economic, social, and environmental objectives.
Their main objectives are to enable companies and organizations to set sustainability targets and key performance indicators; to monitor, prepare, and disclose comparative data measuring their economic and ESG performance; and to integrate sustainable production and consumption practices in company business strategies and models.
Independence was indispensable for the other objectives we set out to achieve.
With smart diplomacy that helps to bring relevant powers’ objectives into alignment, he could make a real difference on that front.
Reforming China’s Commanding HeightsMILAN – Chinese President Xi Jinping’s massive anti-corruption campaign has advanced a number of key objectives: It has gone a long way toward restoring confidence in the Communist Party’s commitment to a merit-based system; countered a decades-old pattern of public-sector domination; reduced the power of vested interests to block reform; and bolstered Xi’s popularity among private-sector actors, if far less so with the bureaucracy.
In this context, South Korea’s traditional linear defense planning – assessing the environment, identifying specific threats, formulating options, evaluating priorities, and defining core objectives, strategy, and policy – may no longer be sufficient.
These objectives are not new to the Chinese authorities.
As in Afghanistan and Central Asia, America and Russia could be valuable partners in pursuit of common objectives.
If the US and other world powers want to make headway on their three key objectives – stability, political reform, and peace – they need to understand how they are linked and pursue all three simultaneously and holistically.
But even if he could, a strong greenback is not necessarily good for his policy objectives; nor is the exchange rate even an accurate measure of the currency’s true strength.
And major states differ in their objectives, with Russia and China stressing the importance of sovereign control, while many democracies press for a more open Internet.
And yet, when it comes to practical, commercial objectives, the news is considerably more sobering.
Underlying his declarations was a clear message: the sovereign state still reigns supreme, with national interests overshadowing shared objectives.
Unlike in a democracy, where citizens elect their government officials based on whatever criteria they choose, in China’s selectocracy, the Chinese Communist Party chooses officials for promotion based on their ability to advance the party’s main objectives – especially growth.
At the outset, Britain's objectives were limited to protecting its oil supplies.
Ultimately, the idea always seemed to be that Japan would pay more for defense, but the US would set the partnership’s objectives.
But, if independent technocrats are allowed to determine long-term policy and set objectives that cannot be influenced by democratic majorities, democracy itself is in serious jeopardy.
Given that the US has abandoned any pretense of leadership on world trade, it is up to major emerging economies and like-minded developed countries to establish their own template, one that adheres to trade objectives and discards what special-interest lobbies in hegemons like the US seek to foist on PTAs.
Putin’s main objectives now are the removal of Ukraine’s blockade of Moldova’s pro-Russian breakaway region of Transnistria and Ukrainian “federalization” (a euphemism for the Kremlin’s back-door strategy to gain control over the country’s eastern and southern regions).
Any agreement with Iran would require consent from Israel and the Gulf countries, which do not share the same objectives.
When, as president, he supported the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 or the coming invasion of Iraq in 2003, he did not talk about geo-political or strategic objectives but about the need to stop human-rights abuses by brutal dictators.
Polish foreign policy, like that of the EU, can only be effective in the long term if it takes realistic steps--and spends the necessary money--to realize these objectives.
According to the Argentine scholar Roberto Bouzas, MERCOSUR is in a critical state of affairs, owing to the inability of its institutions to maintain “the common objectives which drove its member states to engage in the process of regional integration and the consequent loss of focus and capacity to prioritize underlying political problems.
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