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Humbled by its inability to control United States military operations, including the one that killed Osama bin Laden, the army is struggling to play a hand in the country’s evolving relations with India and the US.
The creation of these new departments has reduced the once-proud British Foreign Office to something of a think tank on international affairs, responsible for maintaining Britain’s public and trading relations around the world until things settle down again.
What seems indisputable is that today’s anti-liberal, authoritarian Russia is as much a product of the souring of relations with the West as it is of Russian history or the threat of disintegration that Russia faced in the 1990s.
Second, the Russian thesis of “multipolarity” offers much to international relations.
With American power on the wane and China’s on the rise, a restructuring of international relations is inevitable.
The same applies to a European effort to rebuild relations with Iran, or a joint initiative to invest in helping Russia to destroy its huge arsenal of antiquated nuclear and chemical munitions so as to avoid having these fall into the wrong hands.
Indeed, China’s relations with Pakistan have assumed greater importance recently, owing to the tensions that now exist between Pakistan and the US.
At the same time, Zakaev maintained rather friendly relations with Kadyrov, whose achievements – making Chechnya practically independent – he implicitly acknowledged.
Japan is right to be concerned about China’s new regional assertiveness, and Abe’s recent diplomatic push to strengthen Japan’s relations in Southeast Asia, and with Australia and India, is understandable in that context.
Just imagine how different international relations would be if American leaders could visit Myanmar (or even Iran) with equal ease and have friendly discussions about agreements and disagreements.
By subjecting trade relations to embargoes, sanctions, and tests of democracy, environmental standards, and human rights, the League is likely to retard the growth of trade, and thus the chance for poor non-democracies to catch up.
Energy matters have already led to an unprecedented warming in relations between countries such as Israel and Cyprus in recent years, with an agreement signed in 2010 formally delimiting these states’ respective exclusive economic zones.
I shall focus on three issues: economic stability, social justice, and international relations.
Turkey’s Missed OpportunityYEREVAN – Turkey, sadly, seems to be falling into the bad habit of never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity in its relations with Armenia.
Turkish-Armenian relations remain more about gestures than substance.
In my first meeting with Gul, who was Turkey’s foreign minister in 2003, he acknowledged that Turkey had not benefited from its policy of linking Armenia-Turkey relations to a resolution of the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict.
Turkey, he said, wanted to establish normal bilateral relations with all neighbors.
The collapse of the Soviet Union was the right time to establish diplomatic relations with Armenia.
Then, in 2004, with the beginning of EU accession talks, Turkey had ample cause to explain to Azerbaijan why improved relations with Armenia were inevitable.
History is offering Turkey the opportunity to take regional relations to a new level.
Her successor will need more diplomatic acumen to stabilize relations with Japan, China, and Russia, while simultaneously working to denuclearize North Korea and thus reduce the threat Kim Jong-un’s regime poses to the region.
The Scorecard did identify European division as a prime reason for Europe’s failings on the world stage – for example, in its relations with Turkey and China.
As the ECFR’s Scorecard suggests, Europe is still failing in many areas, with its worst performance recorded in its relations with its immediate neighborhood (notably Turkey) and in defending values such as human rights.
It is, however, to recognize that democratic capitalism is an evolving system that responds to crises by radically transforming both economic relations and political institutions.
With its oil income and good neighborly relations with Turkey, such a state would be viable.
Indeed, the KRG government has long made clear that it respects Turkish sovereignty and will not interfere with relations between Turkey’s government and its own Kurdish population.
Trump Is Strengthening Iran’s RadicalsSTANFORD – The United States and Iran have rarely agreed on how to proceed with nuclear talks or other elements of their bilateral relations.
The drastic deterioration in Turkey’s relations with Israel is related to this emerging Iranian-Turkish rivalry.
But, for Turkey as an aspiring regional leader, the interests of the Palestinians are naturally more important than its relations with Israel.
Economic relations between major players such as China and Japan are increasingly close – owing not only to booming trade, but also to direct investment and regional production networks.
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