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For all that Israel downplays its significance, the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002 still offers a critically important deal: full normalization of relations by the entire Arab world in exchange for a comprehensive peace settlement.
The issue of relations with China crystallized in September, when the Japanese Coast Guard arrested the captain of a Chinese trawler after his ship hit two Japanese patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands, which are part of Japan and within its territorial waters.
Even where high levels of social transfers actually do reduce inequality (and therefore presumably increase cohesion), they may undermine inter-communal relations if ethnic minorities are perceived as being strong net beneficiaries.
Following three decades of violent conflict between the province’s Irish nationalist and Protestant groups, resulting in over 3,600 deaths, the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 established a Unionist-Nationalist power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland, along with a British-Irish Council as a nod to harmonious relations with the Irish Republic.
The alternative is a world at risk of tensions and misunderstandings – ones that could easily jump out of the realm of energy policy into international relations and security.
Issues like the eurozone’s troubles and relations with Russia received no attention at all.
Today, scientific relations between developed and developing countries are unequal; important genetic discoveries based on Third World diseases provide neither appropriate credit to local scientists nor fair returns to the populations that made them possible.
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The Alliance is “up” for one key reason: the warming of France’s relations with the US following Nicolas Sarkozy’s election as French president.
From a toughening of France’s position on Iran to a real warming of relations with Israel, not to mention symbolic gestures like Sarkozy’s summer vacation in America, or Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner’s arrival in Baghdad, this is a New France, one seriously considering a return to NATO’s integrated military structure.
The “Peace Process” in the Middle East becomes ever more clearly the great oxymoron in international relations.
America cannot realistically expect its allies – let alone countries like Iran and Venezuela, with which its relations are strained – to adopt principled foreign policies when Middle East Realpolitik distorts its own foreign policy.
Moreover, a warming of the Russia-US relationship could lead to subtle changes in the Russia-China relationship, which has deepened since Russia’s annexation of Crimea wrecked its relations with the West.
A solution to the nuclear dilemma – or any other problem in Iran’s foreign relations – is in the hands of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
So no surprise that other managers, with better relations with those in power, now run Khodorkovsky’s Yukos Oil, as well as another major firm, Sibneft.
A purely pragmatic approach to international relations would be highly transactional, with countries pursuing one-off partnerships of convenience, in which the stronger party would have significant coercive power.
Recently, it has attracted fresh and widespread interest not only as a means to secure more tranquil labor relations, but as a practical means of business organization.
It also largely removes incentives for both management and workers to engage in the kind of costly strategic behavior -- such as strikes and lockouts -- that sometimes characterizes labor relations in investor-owned firms.
But successful diplomacy will require repairing relations with Russia.
Major issues will also arise in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, and relations with these areas will grow in importance.
In Asian policy, with the exception of North Korea, the Bush legacy is better, bequeathing good relations with the key states of Japan, China, and India.
The Summit of the Americas thus serves as a bellwether of United States-Latin American relations, even if it fails to accomplish much of significance.
If, on the other hand, Castro did not attend, some of the ALBA members, including two neighbors with which Colombia hopes to improve relations – Ecuador and Venezuela – might not show up, either.
There had been earlier attempts to improve relations with the Americans.
In 1995, he sent clear signals of a desire to restore diplomatic relations.
According to Putin, he rooted for Trump (but of course did not interfere on Trump’s behalf) because they shared a desire to improve bilateral relations.
A magnificent opportunity for a new start in US-Latin American relations will have been missed.
For example, Russia's most urgent foreign policy problems are its relations with the United States and the conflict over South Ossetia with neighboring Georgia.
It is fashionable nowadays to look to stricter international rules as “the solution” to most global problems, But such a strategy is not well-suited to an ongoing shift in international economic relations.
Vietnam, which restored diplomatic relations with the United States only in 1995, is now considering allowing the US Navy to use its Cam Ranh Naval Base – which was built and used by the US Air Force during the Vietnam War (and then by the Soviet and Russian navies).
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