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Because Congress refused to normalize US-Cuba relations by repealing the US embargo, Obama was forced to resort to legally reversible executive orders to loosen restrictions on travel, remittances, and trade and investment.
During his campaign, Trump did everything he could to offend Mexico and the Mexican people, and to shroud future US-Mexican relations in uncertainty, by promising to build the border wall, deport undocumented Mexican immigrants en masse, and renegotiate or withdraw the North American Free Trade Agreement.
His relations with fellow Republicans in Congress are in free fall, as are his chances of passing any serious legislation.
Ukraine, Russia, and European StabilityKYIV – Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, it has seemed that new rules were being established for the conduct of international relations in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
In all international institutions, we must review our relations with Russia.
I do not apologize for rejecting knee-jerk calls for Russia’s expulsion from the G-8, or for EU-Russia or NATO-Russia relations to be broken.
But we do need to examine the nature, depth, and breadth of relations with Russia.
The eurozone’s path to genuine economic union will be fraught with political and institutional challenges – from determining substantive areas of cooperation to protecting the rights and interests of all EU countries and safeguarding the unity of both the internal market and foreign relations.
For one thing, the entire process was carried out in secret, to the point that Israeli-Polish relations were mediated by the countries’ respective intelligence agencies, lest the law’s key proponent, Polish Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro, catch wind of what was in the works.
Of course, international summits are usually an occasion for countries to sign agreements, not for the hard bargaining that can begin to improve their relations with one another.
The first step in putting relations on a more stable footing is for each leader to acknowledge –and emphasize for their citizens – the ever-increasing interdependence of the three economies.
None should reduce their diplomatic and security relations to a zero-sum game over claims to this or that island, for example.
If anything, the greater concern now is that US-Russian relations are becoming increasingly acrimonious, even irrationally so.
Ever since the 19th century, Germany’s economy has been characterized by close relations between business and finance.
These links were not confined to credit relations, but also extended to direct and indirect shareholdings by the banks and their representation on the supervisory boards of firms.
But at the very time that many countries in the East are looking to German universal banks as a model, new competitive pressures in the West are rapidly transforming the German prototype, leading to new patterns of commercial relations between German business and finance.
EMU will further accelerate these fundamental changes by stimulating cut-throat competition and creating a large and liquid capital market, leading to a shake-out in the financial sector itself, as corporations consolidate their European banking relations among a smaller number of institutions.
But is the BRI more public relations smoke than investment fire?
Of course, a popular, democratically elected government and an independent judiciary in Islamabad complicate relations with the US.
The accord represented a revolutionary approach to comprehensive security, as well as to bilateral and multilateral relations.
Given our good relations with all the key stakeholders in the crisis, Serbia can contribute to the process.
One way to overcome this chasm is to introduce into the UN Charter a new chapter devoted to human rights and to reformulate Chapter IV, which concerns the use of force in international relations.
The term "international relations" assumes the Westphalian order of commitments among sovereign nation states, which replaced the medieval order of communities defined by personal fealty to a king.
Putin’s unwillingness to heed popular discontent, and his failure to develop relations with the West during his 12 years in power, has backed him into a corner – and he is running out of ideas.
From the US government’s perspective, the state of current relations with Pakistan is remarkably similar: When we support Pakistan, they do things we don’t like; and when we sanction Pakistan, they do things we don’t like.
They worry that the dynamic in Sino-African relations would always favor China.
Park remains, rightly, a skeptic concerning Kim’s motives; but the spectacle of the North’s second-highest-ranking official appearing suddenly at the Asian Games earlier this month created a frisson of excitement that perhaps Kim the Younger may actually want to improve relations.
Faced with these domestic concerns, all three leaders need a respite from the tensions that have bedeviled relations among their countries over the past three years.
And yet there are signs that the three leaders understand that the APEC summit may be a make-or-break moment for their countries’ relations.
With Abe, Park, and Xi each facing daunting domestic challenges, a rare convergence in each country of self-interest and national interest may be creating a chance for improved relations.
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