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But it cannot rely only on some local economic breakthrough without any broader cultural and strategic underpinning.
If Europe does not want to be marginalized in international affairs, it must quickly develop a strategic response to the Arab Spring, underpinned by a compelling vision of the future of the Middle East and North Africa.
Putin’s Dance with the TalibanNEW DELHI – Russia may be in decline economically and demographically, but, in strategic terms, it is a resurgent power, pursuing a major military rearmament program that will enable it to continue expanding its global influence.
Russia is involving more countries in its strategic game.
As China’s incursions reignite long-smoldering disagreements and threaten to destabilize the regional status quo, countries throughout Asia are reconsidering their strategic positions.
This emerging strategic shift will likely have far-reaching consequences, raising the stakes of Sino-Japanese sparring over islands in the East China Sea.
But, while Japan’s tense relationship with China dominates headlines worldwide, the strategic rivalry between China and India is more likely to shape Asian power dynamics in the coming decades.
Perhaps China’s apparent economic, strategic, and military advantages will prove less significant than many believe – especially given continuing uncertainty over the terms of America’s strategic “pivot” toward Asia.
In a way, then, the war in Iraq forms the strategic and military bridge between the old and the new Middle East.
The recent move by the 28-member International Energy Agency to release oil from strategic reserves proves this point.
In addition to the courage of the lion, Machiavelli also extolled the strategic deceptiveness of the fox.
A more peaceful and prosperous future will demand a clear and credible strategic vision from Modi, including a zero tolerance approach to terrorists and their sponsors.
Given the bilateral relationship’s economic and strategic importance, Modi must reinvigorate ties, and quickly.
Modi must now assess what kind of relationship can reasonably be expected with President Vladimir Putin’s increasingly assertive administration, while recognizing that it is not in India’s interests to have Putin view China as Russia’s only potential strategic partner in Asia.
Chinese leaders and strategic thinkers (groups that do not always overlap) often talk of China’s aversion to the disorderliness of democracy.
A New Front in Asia’s Water WarNEW DELHI – China has long regarded freshwater as a strategic weapon – one that the country’s leaders have no compunction about wielding to advance their foreign-policy goals.
It also highlights how China is fashioning unconventional tools of coercive diplomacy, whose instruments already range from informally boycotting goods from a targeted country to halting strategic exports (such as of rare-earth minerals) and suspending Chinese tourist travel.
In a water-stressed Asia, taming China’s hegemonic ambition is now the biggest strategic challenge.
Instead of using their political influence and military capacities to check and defuse conflicts – working, of course, with regional actors – they have been resuming a strategic competition that, as history shows, is likely to lead only to more disorder and misery.
This budding strategic partnership is undoubtedly important.
More important, over the past few months, the loyalists’ strategic vision has changed.
Peace in Cyprus would be a strategic game changer for Europe, opening the possibility for the rapid revival of Turkey’s accession process, which has been largely stalled as a result of objections by the Republic of Cyprus.
Whether or not to “disperse” oil has been a key strategic question since combating spills began in earnest in the 1960’s.
American negotiators – the reluctant midwives of South Korea’s increasing responsibility in the field of atomic energy – remain steadfast in their opposition to South Korea’s drive for improved defensive capabilities and a more advanced energy policy, despite the potential strategic benefits.
In Egypt, Mubarak turned his back on the lofty rhetoric of Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s revolution and its grand strategic designs.
But, with the decline of secular nationalism and Islamism’s rise, the hidden electoral power of the Muslim Brotherhood poses a mortal threat to the regime and its strategic alliance with the West.
Instead, Trump’s America will most likely continue to take advantage of its far-reaching commercial influence to secure strategic or political gains.
If one considers the strategic ambitions of the separatists and their Russian patrons, Ukraine's prospects are even bleaker.
They reaffirmed their deference for each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and reached agreements on major strategic issues, including efforts to strengthen cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region and in multilateral institutions, and to respond jointly to regional and global challenges to peace and stability, for example, on the Korean Peninsula.
The reason for this failure is simple: the West has allowed short-term tactical concerns to impede the development of a long-term strategic vision.
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