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Despite the ongoing tensions between Russia and the West – or perhaps because of them – Putin enjoys remarkable support among some European intellectuals and politicians.
The growing tensions between Turkey and the EU have coincided with other important changes in Turkey’s foreign policy.
Most worryingly, it has heightened tensions between Taiwan's various ethnic groups over national identity and relations with China.
Instead, politics was usually recast in terms of old inter-group or inter-ethnic tensions.
All of this depends, as well, on continuing reduction of global tensions.
As the deposit flight accelerated, the economy went into a tailspin and social tensions exploded.
There is a real danger that opponents of Burma’s transition could exploit these tensions, fueling ethnic conflict in order to derail reform efforts.
Ethnic tensions are also running high in the western state of Rakhine.
Last June, tensions erupted when a Rakhine mob, reacting to the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman by three Rohingya men, killed ten Muslims who had no connection to the incident.
Our ability to prevent “water wars” will depend on our collective capacity to anticipate tensions, and to find the technical and institutional solutions to manage emerging conflicts.
Yet in a new context of scarcity, upstream infrastructure projects on international rivers may impact water quality or availability for neighboring states, thus causing tensions.
The key is to anticipate the need for action before tensions escalate to the point of no return.
China will need considerable convincing if it is to participate in a framework of regional policy consultation, coordination, and compromise aimed at muting the tensions over sovereignty disputes.
The first step must be to reduce diplomatic tensions.
Ma’s constructive approach to reducing tensions in the region would benefit all parties concerned.
If the US pursues a predominantly confrontational approach, East Asian politics will inevitably become polarized, just as multipolar nineteenth-century Europe gave way to an increasingly bipolar order in lockstep with rising tensions between Germany and Britain.
Today, Moon is entertaining a range of similar “soft” options – such as reducing military tensions, increasing people-to-people contacts, and offering more humanitarian aid – to help shift course gradually.
In the US, growing ethnic diversity, smoldering racial tensions, and changing social mores added fuel to the electoral fire.
The Helsinki Process that emerged out of the tensions of the Cold War addressed basic security, economic, and social concerns.
The same month, however, one of China’s largest oil companies concluded a drilling contract with Norway’s Statoil, clearly signaling that diplomatic tensions would not stop business.
Moreover, there has been an alarming increase in regional tensions.
Those who wish to contribute to reducing tensions should identify and promote starting points for peace-builders to find common ground.
Already, bilateral tensions are contributing to an economic decoupling that is reverberating across the global economy.
Such economic fragmentation, together with the deeper geopolitical tensions that a cold war implies, would devastate the world’s technological landscape.
Will similar tensions arise between resource-challenged China (where even water scarcity is a problem) and the West?
Despite all the lip service paid at multilateral summits to policy coordination, imbalances within the global economy are fueling a rise in tensions.
Hamas Takes on the RadicalsGAZA CITY – The recent shoot-out in a Gaza mosque between Hamas security officers and militants from the radical jihadi group the Warriors of God brought to the surface the deep tensions that divide Palestinian Islamists.
Pursuing a legal route would depoliticize the issue in the short term, and allow time for tensions to ease.
When Trump came to office, his lack of interest in details and inclination to grandstand exacerbated tensions.
The main lesson of Japan’s approach is that launching an aggressive buying spree overseas merely upsets established international balances of interests – thus generating greater tensions with the rest of the world – while hiding the seriousness of structural problems at home.
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