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Turkey’s relations with Iran, which heretofore have been manageable, could become more prone to crisis.
Long before the Venezuelan election, Cuba’s government, which had become heavily dependent on Chavista largesse, was already taking pragmatic steps toward normalizing relations with the United States.
Crouching Donald, Paper TigerBERKELEY – Donald Trump’s comments about China during the US presidential campaign didn’t exactly bolster high hopes for Sino-American relations once he was elected.
Bahraini-Qatari relations, meanwhile, have never been good.
Similarly, while Jordan announced that it would downgrade diplomatic relations, it has offered few details.
As long as Qatar can maintain relations with Jordan and Kuwait, the effects of the current campaign are likely to be limited.
Arguably, Russia has improved its relations with China under Putin, but at the cost of acceding to China’s demands for two big disputed islands over which the two countries fought in 1969.
Albania has repeatedly expressed support for the policy, which we view as vital to promoting democratic development and good neighborly relations – and thus to enhancing national and regional security and stability.
The CIO would consult agencies on their public relations – but public relations would be redefined, as in the non-government world, to mean listening as well as talking, and to mean admitting faults as a way to correct them.
The Davis case further complicated Pakistan’s relations with the United States, which were already strained because of the military’s reluctance to move into North Waziristan – a mini-state within Pakistan from which the Taliban have launched operations in Afghanistan against US forces.
Its hegemony is challenged by the more radical Islamic Jihad (which remains allied with Iran) and a host of Salafi and jihadi groups, some connected to radical elements in Sinai, which complicates Hamas’s relations with Egypt.
Kwasniewski speaks about good church/state relations, but he promotes the policy of limited confrontation with the Church and many of his cronies are firm anticlericals.
Economic development is determined by many factors, including geography, politics, international relations, and culture.
For example, Sierra Leone, with its small population, excellent Muslim-Christian relations, and uphill struggle to improve its health-care system after the depredations of civil war, has a longstanding relationship with the United Kingdom.
As Berlusconi bluntly put it, closer relations with Libya are about “fewer illegal immigrants and more oil.”
American diplomats, it turns out, also have reservations about Berlusconi’s relations with Russia.
Beyond a certain point – which most of the world is still far from having reached – the accumulation of wealth offers only substitute pleasures for the real losses to human relations that it exacts.
Behind its exalted name lay an innovation of great diplomatic significance: the introduction of an element of calculated moral restraint into international relations.
Another key actor is Saudi Arabia, whose relations with Syria are at an all-time low.
Likewise, regional cooperation on water and infrastructure is critical to improving diplomatic relations and establishing well-functioning markets.
Koizumi’s insistence on paying homage to the war dead interred at Yasukuni, where convicted war criminals from World War II are among the buried, has been damaging relations with Japan’s neighbors for years.
While the public remains negative about Chinese outbursts against Japan, a recent survey indicates that more than 70% of Japanese view the current state of Japan-China relations as unacceptable.
But a crucial difference between Nakasone and Koizumi is often overlooked: their handling of the Yasukuni controversy and relations with China.
Bilateral relations were frozen.
He chose to mend relations with China by focusing on the positive aspects of bilateral ties.
Russia views its relations with Iran as a means to leverage its diplomatic influence in the wider Middle East, where the US has sought (successfully) to marginalize the Kremlin since the Cold War’s end.
The Reagan and Bush administration put that cut at the heart of US/Russia relations.
There is one obvious and important caveat: Poor Sino-Japanese relations, owing to unresolved historical grievances, could prevent Japan from realizing the economic benefits implied by China’s economic rebalancing.
A democratic Maldives – a country that fights the causes of extremism and pursues neutral relations with its neighbors – would bring untold benefits to the archipelago and beyond.
In particular, President Viktor Yanukovych’s contempt for the rule of law has put Ukraine’s relations with the European Union in cold storage, with a comprehensive free-trade and association agreement on hold pending the release of Tymoshenko and other political prisoners.
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