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As a case in point, many Western observers thought that Norway’s trade relations with China would be undermined when dissident Liu Xiaobo was invited to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in December 2010.
What is already clear, however, is that, like previous transformations, this one will involve a fundamental change in all of our economic relations and the social relations that support them.
In the region’s international relations, there were both promising and discouraging signs.
The Road Ahead in the Middle EastDuring these hard times for Israeli-Palestinian relations, it is vital that positive steps be taken and international goodwill be mobilized.
The priority in everyone's minds is the present conflict; but until human well being becomes a universal priority, conflicts will continue to dominate interpersonal and international relations.
If aid is thought by the people receiving it to be manipulated for political gain, it will reduce the possibility for international relations based on any kind of trust.
The Big ChillMOSCOW: Russian-American relations are witnessing a renewed process of deterioration.
So it is essential that the Bush and Putin administrations begin wide-ranging dialogues - at both the unofficial and official levels - in order to take their relations out of their semi-nose-dive.
Under no circumstances, however, should the ABM issue be included, for it will only aggravate Russian/American relations.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, through his flip-flops, and Kim Jong Il, with his renewed nuclear blackmail, both seem determined to see relations deteriorate.
Worsening inter-Korean relations will certainly make both sides less secure and stable politically, economically, and militarily.
According to the economist Marcus Noland, normalized trade relations could increase South Korea’s share of the North’s trade volume to as much as 60%.
Later in the 1970’s, European monetary relations were hopeless when France, Germany, and Britain tried to talk about them, but were straightened out when only France and Germany took part.
What is needed now is precisely the opposite: a reset of Franco-German relations.
The founding idea of the EU was that relations between states should be governed by rules, not raw power.
One way for the EU to proceed would be to submit the dispute to independent arbitration, so that it does not adversely affect day-to-day relations with the US, which are crucial to economic recovery on both sides of the Atlantic.
While the policy does include a rebalancing of America’s military posture in Asia – by 2020, the US Navy will deploy more of its forces, including six of its 11 carrier groups, to the Pacific Ocean – it covers the entire spectrum of diplomacy, economics, development, culture, and inter-societal relations.
Its proximity to the Middle East and Africa – where the European Union and its member countries are the most important aid donors, trading partners, and security actors – will ensure the partnership’s continued relevance, as will the common values and deep economic integration that underpin transatlantic relations.
By joining the US in the rebalancing process and supporting relations with China that are built on cooperation rather than containment, the EU would contribute to global stability, while spreading European values.
How did relations between two NATO allies reach such a low point?
Although China claims that it “normalized relations” with North Korea in 2009, its policies and attitudes toward the North remain mired in a morbid comradeship.
Four areas will be of vital importance:1. managing relations with Russia:2. defusing the transatlantic burden-sharing debate3. dealing with the effects of France’s policy toward NATO4. coping with the dilutive effects of expansionRelations between Russia and NATO appear to have benefitted from a convergence of skill and good fortune.
Fraught relations between France and NATO are also an issue.
And it is here – Europe’s external relations, an issue absolutely vital to the future of all EU citizens – that renationalization is rearing its ugly head again.
Atmospherically, at least, relations have, indeed, improved since the US presidential election, and both sides have expressed good will.
But pushing the “re-set button” on US-Russia relations may be harder than Obama and his team imagined.
This would be catastrophic for Russia— to say nothing of relations with the US.
And Obama will be keen to know what help India can provide with Iran, a country with which India has smooth relations, owing to their shared worries over Afghanistan and Pakistan.
That response retains its flavor today: as new directions in India-US relations are set, new destinations will follow.
Although trade is an effective lubricant of good relations, these sorts of talks are for the “sherpas,” not Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, to handle.
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