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That is why Europe will inevitably be a minor priority if Russia manages to restore and maintain special relations with the US.
A similar bridging role could perhaps be played by Russia with respect to China and India, with which we should establish maximally close relations.
But close relations with the US do not mean that Russia must neglect its own interests, both political and economic.
More generally, Russia must play the oil card, which still gives the country a powerful trump in international relations, especially in light of long-term destabilization of the Middle East.
But even this frightening analogy does not answer the question of whether central banks should assume positions of power in international relations.
Given its support for the brutal national government in Khartoum, China is now desperately trying to repair relations with South Sudan, so that it can continue to exploit the new country’s oil reserves.
It is in Pakistan’s capital that a regional solution will have to be negotiated, and the conditions for success are by no means hopeless, though it involves the far more complicated – and rarely mentioned – issue of Indian-Pakistani relations.
And Western-Russian relations are dangerously tense, increasing the risk that an accident, mistake, or miscalculation will precipitate a military escalation – or even a new war.
This would mirror the joint statement made by former US President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, which was well received in both countries, and marked a new effort to improve relations.
But none should distract attention from the important goal of identifying a new policy framework, based on existential common interests, that can stop the downward spiral in relations and stabilize Euro-Atlantic security.
Indeed, this is not the first time that Pakistan’s relations with the US have been on a slippery slope.
It severed relations with Afghanistan’s Taliban regime, which it had helped to install five years earlier, and allowed America to use its air space to launch strikes on Afghanistan.
The dynamic that has brought Pakistan-US relations to this point arguably began on December 1, 2009, when President Barack Obama, announcing a surge in the number of US troops in Afghanistan, also indicated his intention to start pulling back American troops beginning in July 2011 – a pledge that he reiterated two months ago.
To do that, Pakistan would need help from some of the Afghan Pashtun tribes with which it had developed strong relations during the war against the Soviet Union.
Instead, they will dwell on what is by now uncontroversial: welcoming the recent, if still fragile, progress in Israel-Palestine relations, supporting stability in post-election Iraq and Afghanistan, and extolling the transatlantic link.
For this reason, Iran should win assurances that a new leadership in Iraq will not be hostile to it, and will seek friendly bilateral relations.
In short, advocates of cooperation call for an open and explicit bargain: Iran's support for stability during the current transitional phase in Iraq, as well as its commitment to maintain cooperative relations with whatever permanent government emerges in Iraq, in exchange for an improvement in Iran's regional and international position.
Finally, for Iran's radicals, the possibility of cooperative relations with the US is pure fantasy.
The president-elect could complicate bilateral relations, particularly given that his first year in office will coincide with the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th National Congress next fall.
In an ideal world, both Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping should want to keep US-China relations stable.
Moreover, US-China relations could fall victim to US domestic disputes about global trade, the value of the dollar, and protectionism.
Beyond domestic politics, the international order has experienced several shocks in recent years, profoundly changing the global context for US-China relations.
If relations with the island sour, so, too, could the US-China relationship.
The world benefits when US-China relations stay on track, so both countries should be more transparent about their national interests.
This group could chart a course for US-China relations in 2017, identify potential conflicts, and recommend solutions before tensions can reach a boiling point.
With a new diplomatic framework for bilateral relations, the US and China could ward off strategic confrontations.
More of the same in US-Latin American relations would mean four more years of "the war on terror" at center stage, four more years of pressing issues - trade, poverty, the environment, immigration - placed on the back burner, and four more years of an American foreign policy that defines friendship in terms of the number of troops sent to Iraq.
This bodes ill for improved relations with Iran in the short run, and makes it imperative that Western powers unite to make it unambiguously clear that any use of nuclear weapons or materials by Iran or terror groups aligned with Iran will result in an immediate and devastating response.
Could that model be applied to Japan’s relations with its former enemies, from Korea to China?
Given Asia’s rise, it is, of course, illusory for Europeans to consider their relations with the biggest Asian power, China, only through the prism of human rights.
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