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And for the third time in a row, a new US president will start his administration with ambitions to improve bilateral relations.
In the immediate aftermath of each event, Russia demonstrated its historic inability to build harmonious relations with the countries along its periphery; and in the intermediate periods, it acted on its imperial ambitions at these countries’ expense.
Eventually, Russia will realize that it is in its own long-term interest to break its historical pattern, concentrate on its domestic development, and build peaceful and respectful relations with its neighbors.
Although state-society relations in Russia hue to a traditional pattern, different leaderships have shaped them in different ways.
Compared to these two models, Putin’s model of state-society relations looks like a divorce, or at least a separation: each side minds its own business and doesn’t interfere with the other’s sphere.
Mexico’s relations with the United States were not a central campaign topic, nor will they figure among AMLO’s priorities.
Despite these resemblances – or precisely because of them – Trump and AMLO are almost certain to plunge US-Mexican relations to new depths of suspicion and strain, as objective factors and subjective fervors aggravate old tensions and fuel new ones.
Balancing hard-power relations with governments with soft-power support for democracy is like walking a tightrope.
After Chinese leaders faced international criticism and deteriorating relations with the US, Japan, India, and other countries, they decided to return to Deng’s smart-power strategy.
They focus not on visions of war, but on the building blocks of peace, including public education, improved institutional relations, and effective organization.
Are the days of organizing international relations according to traditional, formal law over?
The "political" argument - that regional trade bodies promote peaceful foreign relations - is simply wrongheaded in the post-Soviet case.
Incendiary statements about Israel exacerbate the lack of trust among Iran’s would-be partners, and make it hard for those in Europe and the US who are interested in building more favorable relations.
Though Turkey’s Western partners swiftly broke with Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi in support of the opposition, the “zero problems” principle dictated that the Turkish government maintain relations with the old regime.
A more vocal Turkish policy on issues related to fundamental freedoms and democratic reform in the region will necessarily alter Turkey’s relations with its less progressive neighbors.
This does not mean that local politics is easy; witness today’s fraught relations between police and racial minorities in US cities.
They are of course intimately linked: religion is commonly used as a way to regulate sexual behavior and relations between the sexes.
If leaders of the world’s two most powerful countries differ fundamentally in their approach to international relations, what are the prospects for strengthening cooperation globally?
It is the effort to build relations of cooperation and exchange to replace a centuries-old legacy of conflict; it is the economic growth and political development of an entire region whose potential has been blocked by the last remaining vestiges in Europe of National Communism.
The Chinese may proclaim that they tend to think over a “longer” term than Americans, who think more “broadly,” and Europeans, who think more “deeply,” as a well-known Chinese international relations expert has put it.
It has weaknesses for sure – a relatively thin layer of medium-size companies, adversarial labor relations, and public-sector inefficiencies, to name some key shortcomings.
And his thinly veiled threats against the Baltic states, Poland, Finland, and now Turkey – whose airspace and relations with NATO have been probed by Russian aircraft – reveal a strategy of aggression that has as its chief goal the weakening of Europe.
China is an authoritarian capitalist country, open for business with other capitalist countries (including deep economic relations with Japan).
Given the two countries’ long-strained relations, this visit would have been remarkable at any time.
There must be normalization in our relations in order for the Caucasus to coalesce into a functional region.
The Russians view normal relations between Turkey and Armenia as a way to minimize Georgia’s strategic role in the region.
Beyond the emotional impact of President Gul’s visit to Yerevan, real improvement in Turkish-Armenian relations requires opening the two countries’ closed border – the last in Europe.
As a result of these improved relations, Indonesia has received Chinese short-range missile technology.
For this reason, China is attempting to use economic and military aid as leverage to improve relations even with countries with which it has had military confrontations with in the past, most prominently Vietnam and the Philippines.
In this crowded power play, only Japan is left out, choosing for the most part to remain aloof and cultivate its relations with the US, which is now to supply anti-missile technology to counter the North Korean threat.
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