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The question for other African states seeking to reform their governance models, then, is how much of Rwanda’s approach to emulate.
And, unlike Yugoslavia’s successor states, which could look to Europe, the lack of a legitimate Arab democratic role model makes crafting a democratic order even more difficult.
In Iraq, only now is it becoming evident that some states cannot be saved without being destroyed.
Within the EU, however, the barriers between states – and thus the economic and political risks of independence – are lower.
Within the EU, this is less of an issue, given that small states – in theory – still benefit from free trade within the Union; but, outside of the EU, the situation of the remaining state can be dire.
All states have an interest in stability, so it is hard to imagine that, in the absence of widespread, grave, and undeniable human rights violations, other states would recognize a region that, after being part of a state for many centuries, declared itself independent without the acquiescence of the country from which it secedes.
After all, the country is surrounded by larger, supposedly hostile states, and it has no allies on which it can rely to come to its defense.
Even after the violent dismemberment of multiethnic Yugoslavia, none of the successor states can claim to be wholly homogeneous.
In February, Fiji became the first nation to ratify the treaty, followed by three other small island states.
Over the past ten years we have built new states, replacing the cloned Communist monoliths that operated for over forty years.
As the United States convenes foreign ministers from Arctic and key non-Arctic states in Alaska on August 31 to discuss climate change and other topics concerning the region, it is vitally important that disagreements in other parts of the world not be allowed to derail the discussions.
Since April, we have spoken with Russian officials and academics, as well as officials from several other Arctic Council member states.
These issues would generally be discussed in meetings of the defense chiefs of Arctic Council states, but these talks have been put on hold in response to the conflict in Ukraine.
It will take years to sort out the competing claims under the treaty, but so far all of the concerned states are playing by the rules.
There is now a broad consensus in Indian policymaking circles that, whoever wins, India-United States relations are more or less on the right track.
It seeks to be finely balanced, respecting the regime’s sovereignty while subtly pressing home the point in unison, as neighboring states.
ASEAN, as the organization of neighboring states, is important to achieving that goal, but US involvement is key, as is inclusion of China and India.
France and China, the only other nuclear weapon states at the time, held out for more than 20 years, until 1992.
But, in the 20 years since the highest court in the international system issued its judgment, the states affected by it have still failed to launch “negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament.”
Non-weapon states began to take action through a series of international conferences and UN resolutions.
The nine nuclear weapon states will finally be put to the test.
The non-weapon states that join the treaty will be tested, too.
The migration crisis has appeared to be more acute in Italy because its system for processing asylum applications and repatriating those who do not qualify is slower than in other member states.
Many economists now believe that in the member states hit hardest by the 2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent euro crisis, “austerity” aggravated the recession.
But at least today’s situation is nothing like the peak of the euro crisis, when problems in Italy (and the rest of the eurozone periphery) threatened to spill over into core member states.
Hollande also supports a tough line on Iran and, regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, his book indicates that he subscribes to the “Clinton parameters” – two states with secure borders and a status for Jerusalem that is acceptable to both sides.
One of the highest-flying proposals of his electoral platform was a call for renegotiation of the European Union’s new “fiscal pact,” endorsed by all member states with the exception of the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic.
Two former Nigerian presidents, Generals Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida, publicly oppose Obasanjo’s constitutional meddling, and several governors of Nigeria’s Muslim-dominated northern states have made clear that they are determined to see Obasanjo off when his term expires in 2007.
A splinter group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, has claimed credit for several recent attacks and kidnappings of foreign workers, and says it will not retreat until Delta states gain control of the revenue produced by locally extracted oil.
Northern governors could, for example, offer the southern states a larger share of Nigeria's oil revenue in exchange for their support for a northern president.
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