Sentences with phrase «foreign policy commitments»
He has constantly said that we need to ensure that our armed services have the capacity to ensure we can meet our foreign policy commitments.
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He dismissed the pressure to pursue an ethical foreign policy as the work of «influential minority elements among us that have some special interest» at heart and believed the American commitment to Israel was a strategic liability.
The scenario you've described could be held at bay or dealt with over time by serious commitment to changing our energy policy and reducing foreign imports.
Discomfort with the authoritarian drift of politics and policymaking in Eastern Europe, and the consequences of Russia's aggressive foreign policy, more than offset fresh commitments to South Africa and Saudi Arabia Equity Funds.
«On June 6, Minister Freeland outlined a new foreign policy for Canada, and underscored our commitment to a rules - based international order, progressive trade policies, gender equality, and fighting climate change.»
«Isolationism is the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, foreign trade, international agreements, etc., seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities.»
It is turning into a combination of ideological tics and irritable gestures even as the worst actors gain power.Ross Douthat argues that the Obama administration is shifting the U.S.'s foreign policy strategy from a Pax Americana model (where the U.S. uses military force to impose order) to one of offshore balancing (where the U.S. strategically sides with one local power or another while keeping U.S. commitments to a minimum).
Even though Azerbaijan has recently upgraded its economic and military partnership with Russia, Azerbaijan's commitment to foreign policy neutrality and criticisms of Russian military activities in Ukraine underscore the limits of the Moscow - Baku partnership.
Overall, while the Foreign Minister's talk was interesting in its commitment to a pro-people polity, her responses during the Q&A session were revealing in their insight towards the Deep State's shifting strategic objectives in the foreign policy Foreign Minister's talk was interesting in its commitment to a pro-people polity, her responses during the Q&A session were revealing in their insight towards the Deep State's shifting strategic objectives in the foreign policy foreign policy domain.
Despite this, the chancellor found time to comment on Tony Blair's foreign policy and the government's commitment to preemptive action and humanitarian intervention.
The panel focused on the 2002 memo from his foreign policy adviser David Manning, outlining the then prime minister's commitment to «regime change».
Although striking a marginally less bellicose tone than Tony Blair's «ethical foreign policy», he gave little indication of real substantive change and affirmed the UK's commitment to working with American and Europe.
The move is a first step towards establishing carbon trading markets in China and further evidence of the country's commitment to tackling climate change, says Felix Preston of Chatham House, a foreign - policy think tank based in London.
Global Witness was co-nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for its leading work on conflict diamonds and awarded the 2007 Commitment to Development Ideas in Action Award, sponsored jointly by Washington DC based Center for Global Development and Foreign Policy magazine.
Meanwhile, on the foreign - policy front, the NOAA study projects «tensions between governments in the East and West [will] begin to fray as it is becoming clear that an entirely new level of commitment» — read: huge amounts of money — «will probably be needed to address the relationship between people and the planet.»
«Today, President - elect Obama announced a strong foreign policy team that will approach issues of women's health and rights, family planning, and global poverty with the seriousness and commitment they deserve.