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A new Middle East policy will thus have to concentrate primarily on four aspects: 1) a comprehensive offer to Syria to detach the country from Iran and settle open conflicts; 2) an offer to Iran for direct talks about the perspective of a full normalization of relations; 3) a decisive and realistic initiative to resolve the Israeli-Arab conflict 4) a regional security architecture that centers on stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 1992, its stupid insistence on strict Russian debt servicing of Soviet-era debts sowed the seeds for today’s bitter relations.
A clear sign of the rot in Iran’s economy can be found in economic relations between Iran and Turkey.
Countries join alliances, or entities such as the European Union, because these groups make the benefits and obligations of membership as unambiguous as anything in international relations can be.
It should even deliver new dynamism to economic and diplomatic relations among the European Union, Russia, and China.
It is easy to see how this theory can be applied to personal relations.
Voice may also decrease if new possibilities emerge: a new potential partner means that there is no longer any pressure to discuss and improve relations within the existing arrangement.
The schema might also be applied to political relations: Hirschman wrote a memorable article showing how the ability to exit East Germany in 1989 produced a sudden breakdown of loyalty.
One of the factors driving the UK’s sense of unease in its relations with an increasingly bureaucratized Europe is the belief that its values and institutions are closer to those of the US, or of other English-speaking former colonies.
Similarly, North Korea’s human rights record, one of the world’s worst, will have to be taken up in the future – perhaps, as I signaled during the six-party talks, as a component of eventual diplomatic relations.
Former Deputy Foreign Minister Chun Yung-woo warned an American official in 2010 that revising the Nuclear Cooperation Agreement could soon become a “defining issue” in South Korea-US relations, and that it was already attracting “significant amounts of negative press attention.”
After the fall of the Soviet Union, relations continued to warm, as Boris Yeltsin, the first President of the Russian Federation, visited the Vatican in 1991 and 1998.
Capital and know-how flows across borders, so traditional bilateral trade flows have been replaced by a complex web of international commercial relations.
International relations tend to become destabilized by rapid changes in the distribution of power.
The most important element of China’s charm offensive is its effort to improve relations with Japan, initiated at a meeting between Xi and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the recent APEC meeting in Beijing.
Vietnam, for example, decided to “reset” its relations with China, and not to cooperate with the Philippines in waging a legal battle over China’s maritime claims.
Yet Chinese President Xi Jinping was willing simply to throw away that public relations victory.
China also takes its relations with the US very seriously.
It did not herald a new era of international relations in which terrorists with a global agenda prevailed, or in which such spectacular terrorist attacks became commonplace.
We need to create tightly knit networks of personal relations between the members of different social and religious groups.
Can India and China stem the deterioration in bilateral relations?
This muddied legacy remains at the heart of Croatia's current problems and its relations with the Hague Tribunal.
Putin’s pre-election monologues and articles suggest an ominous answer: his presidency will be based on a genuine misunderstanding of the structure of contemporary international relations, markets, and democracy, and will be driven by his uncontrollable messianism.
Under the Russian system, most taxes are centrally collected, so governors need good relations with federal authorities so as to maintain access to the ever-shrinking federal pie.
The Transatlantic Blame GameAs if the diplomatic spat over Iraq weren't bad enough, relations between America and Europe are being slowly poisoned by divergent economic policies.
But climate change represents China’s toughest challenge in international relations since the Cold War’s end.
Within the framework of multilateralism, countries must make the effort to smooth over their differences and deepen their relations: we must conquer the inertia that moves us towards old thinking – and old alliances.
On the left, the growing working class sought to use political power to change economic relations - to advance more progressive tax policies, or to stop the use of tariffs to protect the old order.
The Indian government’s desire to enhance its trade relations with the US thus provides the industry an ideal opportunity to pick up where TRIPS left off, by compelling India to make patents easier to obtain and to reduce the availability of low-cost generics.
Consider the example of Greek-Turkish relations, which had hardened under the compressed weight of “establishment” views that were long entrenched in both countries.
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