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Despite America’s “pivot” to Asia, it intends to stick to its two-pronged approach: seek to maintain a balance of power with the help of strategic allies and partners, while continuing to accommodate a rising China.
As is the case with North Korea, Syria, and Iran, strategic patience has given way to impatience, with the nationalistic Trump administration leading the charge against China.
Moreover, the Japan-US Security Consultative Committee brought together the countries’ foreign and defense ministers in Washington in February to discuss common strategic objectives related to the reformation of US forward forces.
China fears not only the social and economic consequences of a North Korean implosion, but also the strategic consequences of reunification – in particular, that the US military, through its alliance with South Korea, would gain access to territory on its border.
This will be one of the EBRD’s strategic priorities in 2010.
Of course, strategic stability, trust among nations, and the settlement of regional conflicts would all help to advance the process of disarmament.
It will require a sustained effort and enormous patience, but could be hugely beneficial to US strategic interests.
Schuman was France’s foreign minister in May 1950, facing grand strategic questions on the organization of European and Atlantic cooperation.
But France has always sought to maintain a capacity for strategic autonomy, and Macron hopes that the weakening of the US strategic guarantee will convince Europeans, who have long lagged on the establishment of a stronger common defense posture, to do the same.
Considerable economic, strategic, and cultural obstacles to the emergence of a European defense posture no doubt remain, including among those within some French industrial circles who oppose open tenders for defense contracts.
Third, many US allies in Asia (and elsewhere) are wondering whether America’s recent strategic “pivot” to Asia is credible.
How can China build a legitimate defensive military capability that a great power needs and deserves without worrying its neighbors and the US that it aims to seize disputed territory and aspires to strategic hegemony in Asia?
So let us speak frankly, facing a taboo, about what it means to be a senior woman leading effectively: it means that one will occasionally contradict a man, however politely; overrule a man, however courteously; disregard a man’s strategic advice, no matter how gently the decision is put; and tell a junior man, however tactfully, that he is not performing well enough.
Democracy is not only a mechanism to help prevent strategic mistakes.
In postcommunist countries, where business is often deeply divided, influence on public policy has been catalyzed through strategic coalitions.
For decades, it used its strategic position between the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea to guard the alliance’s southern flank against Soviet encroachments.
Given its strategic location and economic and human potential, the country should be moving toward a brilliant twenty-first-century future.
And yet Turkey’s strategic importance to Europe remains.
For that to happen, the education of Middle Eastern youth must be regarded as a strategic issue, worthy of just as much global foreign-policy attention as the fight against extremist groups.
And yet it is absurd to compare the power of the two phenomena, or to suggest that in the confrontation with the butchers of Mosul and Palmyra, the democracies face a strategic challenge analogous to that of the Nazi Wehrmacht.
Pakistan’s military links with America appear to remain on a sound footing, so the strategic alliance with the US is likely to continue, perhaps with some nuanced differences over how to fight the “war on terror.”
If so, the long-term strategic costs could be enormous.
But Putin’s greatest strategic derangement concerns China.
Democratic countries – particularly the United States and members of the European Union – can denounce authoritarian practices with a clear voice and resist the temptation of cozying up to regional bullies for short-term strategic advantage.
The EIB argues that fossil-fuel lending supports strategic projects that safeguard European energy security.
Under the overarching theme of “Driving Social and Economic Transformation,” the Forum will focus on three strategic goals: promoting financial inclusion, increasing market access, and driving social change.
After the failure of its imperialist Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity scheme of the 1930’s (which had a soft-power component of anti-European propaganda) and its defeat in World War II, Japan turned to a strategy that minimized military power and relied on strategic alliance with the US.
But the Bush administration’s vision was, and remains, flawed, for it regards the US-India relationship solely as a strategic one that enhances both countries’ military reach.
President Obama must shift the fundamental basis of the US-India relationship away from a strategic partnership based on a militarized notion of security toward a holistic vision of human security in which military force plays an appropriate but not a defining role.
Peretz was unable to gauge the strategic implications of his decisions.
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