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Bin Laden and the Afghan EndgameISLAMABAD – Osama bin Laden’s death in a firefight with United States special forces will profoundly affect Pakistan’s relations with America.
Or was Pakistan’s military using Bin Laden as a pawn in its relations with the US?Did the Pakistanis allow Bin Laden to hide in the hope of using him as a bargaining chip in the endgame for Afghanistan?
What is known is that Bin Laden’s demise came at a moment when relations between the CIA and Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan’s intelligence agency, had sunk to an all-time low.
The Haqqani group has maintained good relations with ISI.
Europe AgonistesIn transatlantic relations, nothing is potentially more divisive than the issue of Israel’s security.
Outside the Middle East, the United States has scaled back its relations with Egypt since the government’s weak response to the attack on the US embassy in September, which signaled a rapid deterioration in bilateral relations.
Jailed years ago for his anti-Kuomintang (KMT) activities, he stood up at great odds to the Chinese Communist Party, which sought in vain to subjugate him in cross-Strait relations and in global politics.
Only 24 countries, mostly tiny island states, maintain diplomatic relations, while all but one of the world’s major powers and all important international institutions, including the United Nations, dance to the mainland’s tune on the issue.
If so, and if denying food aid would result in a famine that the North Korean regime could not withstand, what could such a decision mean for eventual relations among Korean peoples living in the northern and southern parts of a unified country?
Some worry that this will worsen relations with the US.
For most of the twenty-first century, emerging markets’ rising importance – and, with it, a reordering of the global economy and international relations – has been conventional wisdom.
Even during that adjustment, there is no reason why relations with European partners should suffer in any fundamental sense.
For example, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has proposed a permanent office within the White House for managing relations with China.
Germany also has excellent relations with the countries whose people suffered most under the Nazis.
The latest source of contention - both on the domestic front and in relations with the mainland - concerns whether to write a new constitution.
Most worryingly, it has heightened tensions between Taiwan's various ethnic groups over national identity and relations with China.
Of course, Taiwan's parlous relations with China have suffered further as a result, with China's government denouncing calls for a new constitution as a calculated move towards independence.
This senseless political warfare has hampered cross-strait economic relations.
Indeed, with China bent on unification, it refuses even to define relations with Taiwan as "bilateral," while China's growing global influence suggests that Taiwan's diplomatic fortunes are not about to improve.
The Dangers of Nuclear BombastMADRID – In the summer of 2012, the international relations theorist Kenneth N. Waltz published an article titled “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb,” in which he argued that a nuclear-armed Iran would reestablish a desirable balance of power in the Middle East, by acting as a counterweight to Israel.
In North Korea, Kim Jong-un came to power a few weeks after Qaddafi’s summary execution at the hands of rebel fighters, which undoubtedly influenced his approach to international relations.
This tranquility has been helped by the elaborate “rituals of respect” that have developed between the secular state and the Sufi orders, and the excellent relations between the country’s Muslim majority and the Catholic minority at all levels of society.
However, the Senegalese pattern of state-religious relations allows the government to provide partial funding to such private religious schools.
The real reason for not hiking by the end of the year is public relations.
It maintains the country’s improved relations with the IMF, and it has even approved an agreement with the US to guarantee investments.
While Abe wisely visited China and smoothed over relations ruffled by his predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, who repeatedly visited the Yasukuni Shrine (where 14 class A war criminals from WWII are interred), many people are uncertain about his long-term vision.
This would be a way for Japan to escape its reputation for insularity, avoid the mistakes of its military history, improve its relations with Asian neighbors who still remember the 1930’s, and increase Japan’s “soft” or attractive power.
Bilateral relations have been bedeviled ever since by a festering dispute over the divided territory of Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state (but home to only 3% of India’s Muslims, who are scattered in larger numbers throughout the country).
Water has emerged as a new divide in Sino-Indian relations.
China’s rush to build more dams promises to roil relations across Asia, fostering greater competition for water and impeding the already slow progress toward institutionalizing regional cooperation and integration.
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