In Cuba, Obama has shown that transcending the politics of confrontation and sanctions requires diplomatic initiative.

We'll do some side by side comparisons here.

America s interests are now so closely intertwined with China that a policy to isolate or confront it is not feasible.

The long political, intellectual, and, at times, military confrontation that we knew as the Cold War was over.

This might be the last chance for Iran to change its nuclear policy, prevent military confrontation, and save the economy.

Confrontation puts the solutions at risk.

But what is the justification for that confrontation?

Why did the Russian public accept confrontation so easily?

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Indeed, a signal illiberal achievement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi s BJP regime has been the revival of the cow as an instrument of political warfare.

Yes, he believes that Israel should end its policy of confrontation with the international community, and he truly wants a two state solution.

Both sides will need to give a little to prevent the confrontation in the streets from escalating, with the police forced to provide a substitute for a sensible policy.

But to adopt confrontation as their preferred strategy would be a serious mistake.

By that time, it might be too late to stop a slide toward a wider confrontation.

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At some point, the risk of an open confrontation between NATO and Russia could grow.

And the current regional and sectarian confrontation in the Middle East affects the nuclear negotiations directly.

The director, who was already fed up with the story (in her own words), resolved to confront the issue.

Responsible political leaders will have to be more aggressive, bold, and vigorous in confronting such interlocutors.

In the Greek German confrontation, it is easy, at least in theory, to design such a positive sum game.

There is a burgeoning desire for a future that dispenses with traditional policies based on fear and anger.

SEOUL Last month, North and South Korea narrowly avoided a catastrophic military confrontation.

For the West and for the European Parliament Middle East policy seemed to be confined to the Palestine question and human rights in the areas occupied by Israel.

From a Western perspective, willful confrontation makes little sense, because the EU and Russia are and will continue to be neighbors.

Cooperation would be replaced by confrontation, trust by distrust, and arms control by re armament.

Yet we succeeded in ameliorating it not just normalizing relations but ending the Cold War confrontation itself.

Now, if Islam and democracy are at present in a moment of great confrontation, what does that mean?

He warned that Iranian intransigence would doom the talks to failure, raising the prospects of yet another military confrontation in the Middle East.

Will Kim respond to that isolation recklessly, by continuing to antagonize the South, or pragmatically, by becoming more flexible?

That was the principle. You there would be a nuclear conflagration about to hit us, and if you get under your desk, things would be OK.

His obsessive focus on Iran not to mention the seemingly irrational calculus that is driving him toward a politically suicidal confrontation with the US, his country s most important benefactor stems from deep rooted convictions, a system of political thought, and his own perspective on Jewish history.

This would represent a departure from early in his presidency, when, in his bid to broker a settlement, he failed to confront AIPAC.

The outcome of this standoff could determine Ukraine s future, as much as the military confrontation with Russia.

The world no longer adheres to the static Cold War order, with two blocs locked in open but guarded confrontation.

These are the real factors driving the confrontation that the Vienna negotiations are meant to defuse over the next six months.

If confrontation leads to stalemate, as it did in 1995, then both parties will be carefully watching the public reaction.

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But, while technological superiority and confrontation can wipe out the weak side, technological diffusion across cultures can be mutually beneficial.

Indeed, contrary to what Putin claims to the Russian public, the Chinese are not fully committed to backing him in his confrontation with the West.

But so those are all parts of our bodies where we very directly interact with our environment, in a direct confrontation, if you like.

I cannot decide this issue, nor is it up to me to decide it. I think everything is now clear and, if you are willing, we can proceed in this way.

Again and again, when it comes to discussions of Gezi and Turkish politics, we see ill informed foreign commentators falling back on the cut and paste of a dialectical confrontation between an authoritarian, secular, single party state from history and the current, elected, authoritarian government which plays to a religious base.

After things that have to get done get done, the psychology in the short term will revert to one of confrontation, he said.

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