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Thus, the ECB’s monetary policy will take on an increasingly beggar-thy-neighbor cast, leading to trade and currency tensions with the United States and other trade partners.
Moon will take office at a time of heightened tensions with North Korea.
Germany’s top officials ostensibly went on vacation in order to create the impression that the tensions could easily be resolved.
Similarly, such a networked approach could put Asian countries in a much stronger position to restrain the US if the Trump administration took destabilizing actions in the region, such as by exacerbating tensions with China.
The lack of regional common policies is particularly noticeable in the areas of regional defense and internal security, where it has been impossible to identify a common position on inter-state tensions, the fight against organized crime, and drug trafficking.
But renewed market tensions indicate that these risks have not been eradicated so much as papered over.
The crisis in Ukraine and the tensions with Russia underscore just how high the stakes are for Canada and Europe alike.
The demise of military dictatorships and the spread of democratic regimes throughout Latin America (except for Cuba) means that even severe economic, class, ethnic, and other tensions now more often manifest themselves politically, in struggles for votes and influence.
The rule of al-Nasir – who viewed the Shia as an intrinsic part of the Islamic community and sought to treat all of his subjects equally – was characterized by a marked decrease in sectarian tensions.
Though historical disagreements have long hampered bilateral ties, the increasingly nationalistic stance of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye has aggravated festering tensions.
Abe, too, has stoked tensions, particularly by visiting Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine – a controversial memorial that honors, among others, Class A war criminals from World War II.
A more development-minded Libya could help dampen tensions in these vital regions.
This behavior is amplifying long-festering regional tensions, while fueling competition between China and the United States/Japan alliance – a situation that recalls the pre-World War I struggle for maritime dominance between the United Kingdom and Germany.
The Road to Asian UnityNEW DELHI – Asia’s lack of institutions to ameliorate regional tensions is often lamented.
Such ventures now dot Asia’s geography, even as tensions over unsettled boundaries and sovereignty claims are fueling turbulence.
Similar tensions with Japan have been allowed to fester, benefiting neither side.
The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September, 2001 and their aftermath may exacerbate tensions not only between pro-Western and anti-Western schools of thought in Africa, but also between Christians and Muslims.
If Japan goes too far down this road, however, it would create such tensions in the Japanese-Chinese relationship that it would adversely affect also the possibility for a stable American-Chinese relationship.
Still, proposals to de-escalate military tensions – perhaps accompanied by a peace treaty and a broader framework for managing relations in the region – represented a welcome development, especially in the eyes of the South Koreans and the Chinese.
A New Bargain for UN ReformThe United Nations is torn apart by internal tensions.
In fact, the consequences of leadership degeneration are easy to see: faltering economic dynamism and growth, rising social tensions, and loss of government credibility.
With tensions between China and its Southeast Asian neighbors escalating and jeopardizing the security of the sea-lanes on which China depends, there is no time to waste.
Emerging economies still need to manage better their growing domestic tensions, which reflect rising income inequality and uneven access to basic services.
For national actors to have space to find solutions, it is necessary to de-escalate tensions and find compromises – first globally, between the US and Russia, and then regionally, among Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel.
Closing the door on NATO expansion would make it possible to ease tensions and normalize relations with Russia, stabilize Ukraine, and restore focus on the European economy and the European project.
The flash point for Muslim-Christian tensions is Sharia, or Muslim religious law.
The tensions spawned by Islamic law might be justified if it targeted Nigeria's biggest problem: government corruption.
Georgia has tried to defuse tensions over Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but Russia accuses Georgia of aggression and ethnic cleansing.
Investors worry about the longer-term consequences of political dysfunction, another year of European economic contraction, disastrously high unemployment, unprecedented – and thus untested – central bank policies, and increasing global tensions.
The Obama administration had been pressing Abe not to aggravate regional tensions by visiting Yasukuni – an entreaty reiterated by Vice President Joe Biden during a recent stopover in Tokyo on his way to Beijing.
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