Sentences with phrase «foreign policy point»

Gambling the recovery over another war of choice makes no sense, even from a foreign policy point of view.

And the recent report by Foreign Policy points to growing evidence that the crisis is starting now.

Not exact matches

He added that «much remains to be done» in U.S. foreign policy, pointing to efforts to end a civil war in Syria and ensure stability in Iraq.

While Paul's isolationist foreign policy has been a major weakness with some Republican caucus - goers, Wood, like many other Paul supporters, finds it to be one of his strongest selling points.

While Trump and Zuckerberg's FWD.us represent policy positions that are in direct conflict, SiliconBeat points out that Trump has supported some proposals favored by those in the tech industry, such as efforts to help foreign students stay and work in the U.S.

But there no question of any EU «boots on the ground» in Libya, which has become a main launching point for people traffickers since being plunged into chaos with two rival governments and a significant number of Islamic State militants, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said last week.

Still, Paul Boothe, director of Western's Lawrence Centre, points to some intriguing ongoing research he's overseeing into Ontario's manufacturing sector, which strongly suggests Canada could be making it far easier for foreign companies to sort out the wide range of federal and provincial programs and policies that might lure their investments.

«I think from the administration's point of view, this is an opportunity to make a very major pronouncement on its foreign policy and its European policy,» said Alexander Vershbow, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia and a former deputy secretary general of NATO.

Didion's point is that this tendency has flattened discussion since 9/11, and has created a government in which Democrats, with few exceptions, either have remained silent or have supported whatever the president wants with respect to foreign policy — the congressional vote on war powers in regard to Iraq being the, prime example.

(Searching for differences between Republican and Democratic foreign policy experts is akin, he suggests, to «contrasting the finer points of the sitcoms on NBC with those broadcast on CBS.»)

One of the lowest points in US and UK foreign policy.

The NATO essay points again to the fact that, whether the issue under discussion is welfare policy or foreign policy, what we consistently find in the work of Irving Kristol is a consideration of public life and governing from the standpoint of the individual soul» and, by the same token, a consideration of the need to foster the right kinds of virtues in individual souls in order for the most desirable regimes to be successful.

Yet others are champions of globalization who seem to believe that the unstoppable economic dynamics of Wall Street and Silicon Valley have brought us to the point that we really don't need a foreign policy.

In an article for Foreign Policy magazine, Harvard University's Stephen Walt assails «the myth of American exeptionalism,» pointing out that America's sins at home and abroad undercut this «self - congratulatory portrait» of a country superior to others and consistently beneficial.

U.S. violations of international law, failure to curb covert activities, refusal on «national security grounds» to release key evidence in the Iran - Contra and related trials, cooperation with drug runners in pursuit of illegal foreign policy objectives, and an obedient press all point dangerously towards a national security state.

Syria is not an isolated case and we need to see two examples about the US behavior in the foreign policy to understand this point of view:

The fact that a mainstream actor might use the death of Osama Bin Laden to draw a critical comparison between US and Russian foreign policies indicates how much the United States is still a major reference point when Russians seek to define their international political identity.

At this point the Republican Party came to dominate US foreign policy.

Pompeo's quick and frictionless confirmation points to a shift to the right in what constitutes «common - sense» in US foreign policy.

Giuliani suggested that Trump plans to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear agreement, pointing to the presence in the president's inner circle of new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and long - time foreign policy hawk John Bolton.

The mediation efforts undertaken by Turkey between Israel and Hamas, and by Qatar between the different Lebanese factions in 2008, probably represented the highest points of what can be considered an overall successful foreign policy course.

A liberal would probably point to the fact that the so - called «neo-Ottoman» foreign policy in Turkey is a direct result of the electoral victory of the AK government, with its Anatolian roots and its Islamic ideology.

When I pointed out all of Britain's experience and assets that it had to bring to the foreign policy and security table, and suggested that the EU might be cutting off its nose to spite its face, the response was simple and devastating: «You cut off our nose, not us.»

Indeed most people are aware that my major critique of economic policy since May 2015 was a «body language» that appeared to disdain private and foreign capital, a point ironically that I also made on May 6, 2017.

Bob Spink, the independent MP for Castle Point, is supportive of Ukip on foreign policy matters.

Let me quote directly from my first article, «In 2015 and 2016 for instance, Nigeria «erected» two structural barriers against foreign investment - one, the structure of multiple exchange rates reaching as many as 13 according to some reports and the huge variance between the rates at a point rising to a difference of over N200 between the lowest and the highest rates; and the absence of clarity over economic policy.

(b) By way of derogation from point (a), where the Council does not act on a proposal from the Commission or from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the qualified majority shall be defined as at least 72 % of the members of the Council representing the participating Member States, comprising at least 65 % of the population of these States.

He is the Stanley Kaplan Distinguished Visiting Professor of American Foreign Policy at Williams College and the author of the forthcoming book, «Rally Point: Five Tasks to Unite the Country and Revitalize the American Dream,» which will be published by Twelve Books in October.

In speaking engagements, and increasingly on television, he prosecuted his strategy to subvert the status quo by donning a suit and, in perfect and impossible - to - argue - against rhetoric, spouted the sort of radical ideology — pointing out the causal chain between U.S. foreign policy and terrorism — that would have landed anyone else in talk - show purgatory.

In 2015 and 2016 for instance, Nigeria «erected» two structural barriers against foreign investment - one, the structure of multiple exchange rates reaching as many as 13 according to some reports and the huge variance between the rates at a point rising to a difference of over N200 between the lowest and the highest rates; and the absence of clarity over economic policy.

Whitehall officials pointed to common interests in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan - but observers pointed out the biggest foreign policy intervention since the Cold War, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, would have been unlikely to meet with joint support.

They point out that, aged 27, he was appointed secretary of John Smith's Commission on Social Justice, and that he acted as a «conscience» of the Blair premiership on a range of subjects, including foreign policy - where he objected, inside cabinet, to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006.

Far from having the joined - up government we were promised he pointed out that our foreign policy and defence policy were completely disjointed.

He reminded the envoys, who would be heading towards African countries that Africa remained a focal point of Ghana's Foreign Policy objectives.

President Obama delivered the graduation speech at West Point Wednesday, and with it, a foreign policy change of direction.

The president pointed out that Ghana's foreign policy has time immemorial been traditionally above partisan politics.

The new active Danish foreign policy continued after Ellemann - Jensen's 10 years term as Foreign Minister and ultimately became a turning point in Danish foreign and defence foreign policy continued after Ellemann - Jensen's 10 years term as Foreign Minister and ultimately became a turning point in Danish foreign and defence Foreign Minister and ultimately became a turning point in Danish foreign and defence foreign and defence policy.

His elder brother appeared to raise his eyebrows at this point, as he did when Ed Miliband implied there has been a lack of «values» in foreign policy under Labour.»

So there is a lot more in that than just energy that we are talking about; but I guess the point is that the United States wouldn't be relying on Middle Eastern oil, which changes [has], you know, massive foreign policy implications for the country.

We don't need to look at foreign policy decisions to point out how many members of congress are zombies.....

Let's assume your first date was a success, you've talked over the finer points of foreign policy and there seems to be a promising future between you.

The movie feels lightweight, even while pointing fingers at the American government's meddling foreign policy and lies.

The cannon makes a good starting point for investigating the circumstances in which the attempted French invasion took place, the foreign policy of Henry VIII and the development of the English navy, as well as how the finds from the Mary Rose enrich our knowledge of life in Tudor England.

He also makes a startling discovery: that the Civil War and the abolition of slavery — the fulfillment of the ideals of the Declaration — were the decisive turning point in the history of American foreign policy as well.

Concerns have mounted that home prices in Canada's largest city have spiralled to the point where policy - makers need to intervene, as they have in Vancouver, where a number of measures have been implemented including a tax on foreign buyers.

It is possible that foreign lenders to the US may rebel at some point, but if the OPEC nations in the Middle East or China haven't blinked by now, I'm not sure what level of current account deficit would make them change their policy.

One can find a history of idiocy amplified by partisan point - scorers on the environment, on foreign policy, on taxation, on human rights etc., but laughing at folly is very different to dealing with real and serious underlying issues.

And if you think Germany prefers UK outside the EU, then economics ranks up there with foreign policy as not your strong points.

From my point of view, any national policy should be directed at deducing the nation's dependency on foreign oil (almost all) while developing local industries, again reducing the country's dependency on key materials.

Even if one could say that such treatment reflects some policy of the various foreign states involved, or indeed of the United Kingdom, it goes far beyond any conduct previously recognised as requiring judicial abstention... The critical point in my view is the nature and seriousness of the misconduct alleged in both cases before the Supreme Court, at however high a level it may have been authorised... Sovereign states who without justification and without permitting access to justice detain or mistreat individuals in the course or in relation to their conduct of foreign relations or affairs have sovereign immunity in foreign domestic courts.