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One reason is that relations between the military and the Islamist movement are more complicated than they appear.
Long before Western philosophers included animals in their ethics, Chinese philosophers like Zhuangzi said that love should permeate relations not only between humans, but between all sentient beings.
Fortunately, relations among the Indo-Pacific’s four key maritime democracies – Australia, India, Japan, and the US – are stronger than ever, characterized by high-level linkages and intelligence-sharing.
It was only in 2002, after NATO began talks to admit Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia, that relations began to sour.
At the G-20 summit in Turkey, however, Putin struck a markedly different tone, extending an open hand: “We proposed cooperation on antiterrorism; unfortunately our partners in the United States in the initial stage responded with a refusal… [But now] it seems to me that everyone is coming around to the realization that we can wage an effective fight only together… If our partners think the time has come to change our relations, then we will welcome that.”
Instead, the journalist Ben Judah reports, Putin receives daily updates on Kremlin politics, domestic affairs, and foreign relations from his three key intelligence agencies.
The foreign governments that are currently engaging Pakistan should encourage its leaders to move forward on at least two related fronts: trade and better relations with India are crucial.
His official visits to China and South Korea – two key countries with which relations suffered under the administration of Junichiro Koizumi – came within a week of his taking office and at a moment of crisis, with North Korea setting off an underground nuclear blast.
But, while Abe’s commitment to what he describes as “future-oriented” relations with China and South Korea represents a welcome departure from the Koizumi government’s record, his policy agenda in fact implies considerable continuity with Japan’s heightened focus on diplomacy and security issues.
Toward North Korea, on the other hand, continuity will prevail, with Abe re-emphasizing the principle that normalization of relations requires resolution of abduction cases – some dating to the 1970’s – involving Japanese citizens who were seized from coastal towns.
The general instability of social relations – most importantly, but not only, of employment – is slowly becoming intolerable for a growing part of the population in many developed countries, not just in Europe.
Globalization and dynamic changes in the economies and politics of its myriad countries is providing Latin America with an opportunity to decrease the scope of its dependency on the United States, and thus to renegotiate, on better terms, its hitherto asymmetric relations with its giant northern neighbor.
France and Germany have since sought to restore good relations with the US, but continue to disapprove of the war.
As a result of acquiring a pan-European defense capacity, the Europeans are likely to play a more independent role than at present in managing intra-European security relations and carrying out global missions.
Late last year, I was an organizer of a major national survey of Iraqi public opinion that demonstrated the complexity of the country’s communal relations.
Kurds have a much more egalitarian view of gender relations than either Sunnis or Shi’ites.
During the same period, even as Sudan is addressing the issue of its North-South relations, it will also have to arrive at a comprehensive agreement to end the conflict in Darfur.
Yet it simultaneously needs good relations with China and cannot block the Silk Road project.
After all, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un certainly wasn’t motivated by a genuine New Year’s resolution when he called for better relations with South Korea on January 1.
For example, as China, India, and Japan maneuver for strategic advantage, they are transforming their mutual relations in a way that portends closer strategic engagement between India and Japan, and sharper competition between them and China.
They consider a European Turkey an opportunity to develop their own relations with the EU.
For example, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan broke with tradition by displaying a critical attitude toward Israel’s more hawkish policies in the occupied territories, and did so without severing diplomatic relations with Israel.
All told, the CFTA is a grand opportunity for Africa to reshape its relations with the UK and the rest of the world.
How can a meeting be convened in 2012, as stipulated by the 2010 NPT conference’s final document, “on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at by the states of the region,” when many of those states are in turmoil, inter-state relations are strained, and the threat of conflict is mounting?
The Arab position has traditionally been that Israel cannot be offered the fruits of peace, such as recognition and normal relations, before it has paid its full territorial price – that is, a complete withdrawal from occupied Arab lands and the creation of a Palestinian state.
This is a futile exercise, not only because Israel would never disarm unilaterally, but also because without normal inter-state relations in the region it is impossible to engage seriously in an effective dialogue on such vital issues.
But its diplomatic cognitive dissonance – criticizing the Egyptian regime while continuing to supply it with military hardware – can serve only to undermine bilateral relations, just as the same American approach to Musharraf’s regime thoroughly eroded US-Pakistani ties.
In other words, the US has more time to manage its relations with a rising power than Britain did a century ago.
In many ways, this move toward closer relations makes a lot of sense.
Obama has maintained close relations with Malaysia’s Najib (the two are reportedly golfing buddies).
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