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Instead of cementing Poland’s strategic importance to NATO and its rightful place as a powerful, respected EU member state, the PiS has become obsessed with reversing modernity.
Afghanistan’s Drug-Friendly EnvironmentAfghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai has stepped up international fundraising efforts in recent weeks, seeking a fresh package of military and reconstruction aid from the United States, together with stronger strategic guarantees.
Putin’s European Fifth ColumnBERKELEY – If the world should have learned one thing from the recent months of tensions between Russia and the West, it is that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strategic ambition and skill should never be underestimated.
A Turkish Thorn in the EU’s SideMADRID – While the European Union tries to weather a nationalist storm that threatens its core institutions, some of its most important strategic allies have injected more uncertainty into the current political climate.
Instead, it means that cooperation must be anchored not in shared values, but in shared long-term strategic interests.
The imperative for countries now is to determine what their long-term strategic interests are; how they overlap (or not) with those of others; and what systems of mutual accommodation could help to advance them.
This approach clearly is not in anybody’s long-term strategic interests, even if it does offer short-term political benefits.
Countries’ consideration of their strategic interests must also focus on technology.
A third area with potential for strategic cooperation is development aid and investment in the world’s poorest and most fragile states.
It has even acquired infrastructure in distressed eurozone countries like Portugal and Greece – a move that reflects a lack of strategic thinking on Europe’s part.
In a promising move toward strategic accommodation, China has established an International Cooperation Agency to accompany the country’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative.
The US and Europe now need to do more to develop their own long-term strategic objectives and to seek new ways to achieve cooperation internationally.
Instead, the main issue is the strategic threat to Israel’s existence.
In Israel, has the realization of a new strategic threat made debates about land and settlements seem obsolete?
Because this war is directed against Israel’s existence, strategic and thus regional security will gain much greater emphasis.
More important, he seems to lack a coherent long-term strategic vision of America’s role in the world.
A newly restarted Iranian nuclear program would add a worrisome dimension to Iran’s strategic rivalry with Saudi Arabia.
While maintaining its alliance with America, “Japan must always bear in mind the strategic importance of stabilizing its relationship with China.”
Yet China remains the stumbling block, refusing to enter into a water-sharing treaty with any neighbor – much less support a regional regulatory framework – because it wants to maintain its strategic grip on trans-boundary river flows.
China’s hierarchical conception of world order has deep roots, which Yan Xuetong, perhaps the country’s leading contemporary strategic thinker, explores in his books The Transition of World Power and Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power.
Patents have become too difficult to license, and they are too often acquired for strategic reasons than for novelty, as was originally intended.
Its strategy of gradual reform, economic modernization, and social development has made the country an oasis of stability in a region rife with violence and strategic rivalries – and thus a reliable partner for Europe and the United States as they seek to influence events in North Africa and across the Middle East.
Indeed, large companies are run by two boards: a management board and a supervisory board, divided equally between shareholders and employee representatives, which take strategic decisions.
The communiqué that day made no mention of Chechnya, but enunciated the usual “blah blah” about shared values, belief in democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, and the need for strategic cooperation.
He changed the course of an unpopular policy in Iraq and Afghanistan; embraced counter-insurgency tactics based on less costly uses of military and cyber power; increased American soft power in many parts of the world; and began to shift America’s strategic focus to Asia, the global economy’s fastest-growing region.
The cases are comical – or would be if they were not really happening in a country of 74 million people whose strategic importance is difficult to overstate.
Moreover, “quiet” is not a strategic goal; nor is Israel’s way of pursuing it – a war every two or three years – particularly convincing.
The asymmetry between the nature of the threats and Israel’s response ends up putting the superior military power in a position of strategic inferiority.
The Palestinian mainstream, represented by Abbas, made a strategic decision to opt for a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.
Israel’s strategic response would normally be that it aspires to be a “Jewish democratic state,” which presupposes a Jewish majority.
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