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Given Poland’s national-security concerns, why would Macierewicz need to risk his country’s relations with its allies by recalling the 120 Polish Eurocorps officers currently based in Strasburg?
The top board of military power is unipolar; but on the middle board of economic relations, the world is multipolar., andOon the bottom board of transnational relations– comprising issues (such as like climate change, illegal drugs, Avian flu, and terrorism) – power is chaotically distributed.
Military power is a small part of the solution in responding to these new threats on the bottom board of international relations.
This requires a policy that integrates China as a responsible global stakeholder, but hedges against possible hostility its bets by maintaining close relations with Japan, India, and other countries in the region.
Russia’s own “pivot” to Asia is not new; but, in the deep freeze settling over Russia’s relations with the US and Europe, it does seem to have gained the momentum of real necessity.
Given the Kremlin’s fraught relations with the West, catalyzed by the Ukrainian drama (now moving to a new phase with a consequential presidential election), a Russian pivot to East Asia is a move so obvious and compelling that it is hard to see why it didn’t happen sooner.
But, with the possible exception of South Korea, China’s relations with its neighbors have been trending in the wrong direction.
As a result, in the quarter-century since the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union collapsed, relations among the “great powers” have never been worse.
They urged the US to lift its embargo on Cuba, claiming that it had damaged relations with the rest of the continent, and to do more to combat drug use on its own turf, through education and social work, rather than supplying arms to fight the drug lords in Latin America – a battle that all acknowledged has been an utter failure.
Yet it would be a mistake to regard Latin America’s broadening international relations as marking the end of US preeminence.
Trade relations provide another all-important lever.
But it is also true that if the US wants to improve relations with its neighbors to the south, America should make significant bilateral trade concessions to the Latin American countries.
Unfortunately, the lack of progress on trade-related issues is not the only burden on relations between the US and Latin America.
But improving relations with its neighbors to the South will require making commitments at several levels.
The Imperial Rescript of Soldiers and Sailors of 1882 set out the ideology of the "family state," which framed hierarchical social relations based on authority, blood ties, and age.
The rabid anti-clericalism of the Revolutionary period gave way to more balanced church-state relations, with the Concordat agreed in 1801 between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII – an agreement that still applies in Alsace and parts of Lorraine today.
Church-state relations across Europe are extremely diverse.
Nonetheless, it was a useful reminder of the North’s idea of regional relations – and of why the “earliest convenient time” for a trilateral summit cannot come soon enough.
Equally important, professional training development in the Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe can bring about improved international relations and trade, together with reduced migration pressure.
Migrant workers may send money home for a variety of reasons: to maintain good family relations, to ensure an inheritance, or to re-pay a loan from elders.
Moreover, Russia, still traumatized by its Cold War defeat, wants to maintain the Syria-Iran axis as a key bargaining chip in its difficult relations with the West, while both it and China are simply weary of the West’s naiveté.
The model of socialism that existed in the Soviet Union is dead; even the Communist Party does not seriously question the need for market economic relations.
So will transatlantic relations remain as poisoned as they are now if Kerry wins?
Such a rejection would not only put transatlantic relations even more at risk than they are today; it would also put relations between European countries in peril.
But there is a second, more fundamental, part to any viable compromise: a redefinition of transatlantic relations.
One of the greatest comparative strengths of American universities lies in the nature of human relations.
Following Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and given Putin’s continued support for secessionists in eastern Ukraine, relations between Russia and the West are as bad as they have been since the Soviet Union disintegrated almost a quarter-century ago.
Obama’s first term in office began with an attempt to “reset” relations with Russia.
Bilateral relations began to deteriorate when Putin blamed the US – and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in particular – for supporting the thousands of Russians who protested his return to the presidency in December 2011.
The war in Ukraine then took relations to their current depths.
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