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Still, it may help the semi-self-aware to improve their personal relations – or at least to be more aware of the trade-offs they make when they favor one friend or colleague over another.
This all reflects a trend toward greater clarity in our relations.
The argument generally offered is one of cultural affinity – as if centuries of common history, culture, and relations with the rest of Europe counted for nothing.
Equally important are American actions that show the high priority that the US gives to the alliance, and its guarantees not to engage in what Japan fears will be “Japan-passing” in its relations with Asia.
Absent a complete shift in China’s relations with Iran, a strategic partnership with the monarchies of the Persian Gulf may prove impossible to achieve.
But even that reduced level of aid was disputed by people in Seoul, who argued that conditions on improved North/South relations needed to be attached.
But, unfortunately, we are not such people, and nuclear weapons have played – and continue to play – a civilizing role in international relations: their use would be so horrible that we tailor our behavior accordingly.
But this does not spoil their remarkable bilateral relations; on the contrary, it improves them.
In this sense, nuclear weapons facilitate normal international relations, just like a good fence helps build good neighborly relations.
Russia and the US must seek to build relations such as now exist between Russia and China, Russia and France, or the US, France, and the United Kingdom.
Limited arms reductions might be useful for improving relations.
The EU’s authorities in Brussels do not have a structured approach to international relations that is generally acceptable to them, or that can be scrutinized and modified by legitimately interested parties in politics, business, and civil society.
The September 2005 joint statement for the six-party talks stated specifically that, “The directly related parties [read: not Russia or Japan] will negotiate a permanent peace regime on the Korean peninsula,” and that North Korea and the US would work “to respect each other’s sovereignty, exist peacefully together, and take steps to normalize their relations.”
(Intervening in contractual relations ex post to enforce union demands is an emerging characteristic of the administration).
The challenge for Putin is to make sure that his relations with the West do not sour.
Labor relations are becoming more predictable, serving both employers and employees.
They have embarrassed some political leaders, unsettled others, and, in several cases, roiled relations with the US.
A free electoral process brought Hamas to power in Palestine, and the unfortunate episode of the Danish newspaper cartoons illustrated the almost combustible nature of relations between Islam and the West.
“It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
We have also learned more about the level of corruption in some of the regimes that the US supports, like those in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and in other countries with which the US has friendly relations, notably Russia.
His objective is to diversify Cuba’s foreign relations and prevent problems that any change in these countries could cause his regime – a constant imperative since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
As a result, relations with Latin America’s giants, Brazil and Mexico, are being put on a more normal footing, relations with Spain are being improved.
Having helped to draft Taiwan’s special state-to-state act that regulates relations with China, and then having headed the country’s Ministry for Mainland Affairs Council, she is well positioned to manage the thorniest issue any Taiwanese leader will face: the relationship with China.
SEOUL – As China continues its unremitting rise, people throughout East Asia are wondering whether their states will ever be able to achieve the peaceful, stable relations that now characterize Europe.
The “liberal” view of international relations recommends three ingredients: political democratization, deeper economic interdependence, and viable institutions through which East Asia’s states can conduct their affairs in a multilateral way.
But confrontations between the United States and China, the US and Japan, and China and Japan over the past year have left many wondering whether economic interdependence alone can bring about stable regional relations.
The third liberal route to peace – institutionalizing international relations – aims to regularize the behavior of states through a system of norms and rules, thereby creating order (and peace) out of quasi-anarchy.
Local authorities were supplied with adequate funding and advice; independent chambers of commerce became the backbone of a local commercial middle class, which is interested in keeping the region peaceful, even absent an overall agreement; local police were trained (in Jordan), and now function effectively as police forces, not armed militias; and business relations with adjacent Israeli regions have been renewed.
From South Korea’s perspective, there has been another ingredient (and also a very old concept in international relations): the distant power.
The transactional understanding of international relations, with its demand for instant gratification, threatens to undermine such efforts.
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