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Thus Britain would have to hold a referendum to adopt the single currency or to cede its vetoes over EU foreign policy, for instance.

For Suez was not the only trauma to have shaped British foreign-policy thinking since the war.

Bowing to the wishes of Hillary Clinton, who blocked him from his preferred field of foreign policy, Craig was made White House Counsel.

The plea, so often advanced, that this was because they did not like the foreign policy, was feeble.

"Understand that he is not the decision maker when it comes to foreign policy and defense policy in Iran, " he said.

"I think dealing with development and poverty around the world is going to be a critical component of our foreign policy, " he added.

Obama no longer wants the United States and all of its foreign policy goals to be defined by the "war on terror. "

German statesmen used to assert that Germany has no independent foreign policy, only a European policy.

'Axis of evil' was just a line in a speech, but it came to define the last president's foreign policy.

Obama is not perfect, but to say he is completely incompetent on foreign policy is a bit of a stretch.

He said it takes time to move the ship of state and dramatic changes in foreign policy do not necessarily come overnight.

China's foreign policy is often an extension of its domestic agenda, an effort to create conditions for fast growth to continue.

Her campaign speeches are a constant reminder of how much she knows about everything, from foreign policy to labour relations.

He has no interest in ingratiating himself in the foreign-policy establishment.

American foreign policy can only be delegated so far, and crises only wished away for so long.

At a press conference in Brussels Tuesday, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the door for dialogue with Iran remained open.

His focus is on national security, as he made clear in a foreign policy speech in Los Angeles, California, in March.

Likewise, pronouncements by Mr Putin on foreign policy, which is nominally Mr Medvedev's domain, do not seem to faze the president.

Mr Donilon is not just a seasoned Democratic Party infighter but a foreign-policy intellectual who appears to have read everything.

On foreign policy this long-standing member of NATO, with an army second in size only to America's, has always been a bulwark of the West.

As the two men sat down for talks, reporters asked whether Britain still has a special place in U. S. foreign policy.

He has governed a state, he knows about foreign policy and he oozes confidence; it would be a pity if Mr Huntsman did not run.

The next thing I knew, his crotchety neighbor was laying out his ideas on Israeli foreign policy at the top of his lungs.

Up to a point, foreign policy will remain in the president's hands, as it always has under France's fifth republic.

"A year and a half is a lifetime in politics, but I think this really does boost his foreign policy credentials, " Arterton said.

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said he would recommend sending peacekeepers at the next EU foreign ministers meeting next month.

China is seen as the rising rival and an unfair competitor and is one of the few foreign-policy topics with great relevance on Main Street.

He had not been such a bad president as far as foreign policy or the economy went. But those efforts suddenly counted for nothing.

"Europe is still not up to resolving its own security problems, " said Edward Joseph of Johns Hopkins university, writing in Foreign Policy.

He said the government should aim to carve out a long-term foreign policy that managed to rise above the public mood.

Foreign policy is not an explicit part of the brief: that will be the responsibility of a yet-to-be-appointed High Representative.

Albright: Well, it would be, frankly , is to have the American people understand that foreign policy is domestic policy.

The next president will face daunting foreign-policy tasks as well as a mother-in-law of a recession.

Mr. Huntsman's remarks came after a speech in which he laid out his vision for a new foreign policy of "expansion, not containment. "

Should America put the "war on terrorism" at the heart of its foreign policy or treat it as just one concern among many?

A foreign policy of non-intervention makes a lot more sense than us trying to be the policeman of the world.

A: I believe you are clearly aware that this question does not fall within my responsibility as it is not related to China's foreign policy.

There seems to have been as little reason in the foreign policy that now plunged Europe into a fresh cycle of wars.

He said the British foreign network of overseas influence foreign policy and an important foundation.

As for Mr Abe, the pact is of a piece with a more robust foreign policy for Japan that was begun by his predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi.

Ben Rhodes, Obama's chief foreign policy speechwriter, said Obama told him "to cast a wide net" in preparing the address.

Any suggestion that the search for energy is fundamental to the foreign policy of Britain and the US is often treated as faintly indecent.

The president will continue to put the war on terror at the heart of his foreign policy.

The president does not know how to flatter his friends. White House politics has too often seemed to elbow aside good foreign policy.

"I consider him a hero who stood up and fought against the double standards of US foreign policy, " he said.

Observers said the government was trying to balance nationalist sentiment with a pragmatic foreign policy.

As you know, our foreign policy is based on equality and mutual benefit people of all countries to do business with.

The NATO agreement is one of the most important foreign policy achievements for Mr. Obama since he took office two years ago.

After he had built his capital at Nanjing, Britain sent an envoy to ask him about the foreign policy of his new regime.

There was a time when thinking seriously about American foreign policy did not require thinking seriously about economic policy.

Yet in the cases of Sudan and Libya, principle seems to be divorced from practice in the application of Chinese foreign policy.

The greatest failure of Western foreign policy since the cold war ended has been a sin of omission.

The best foreign policy for such an empire was to "let barbarians fight barbarians. "

Jia said the Chinese government pursues the foreign policy of "being a good neighbor and partner" with its neighboring countries.

This expectation is one of the few areas of rigorous continuity in U. S. foreign policy over the last three decades.

An American diplomat believes it is still "trying to decide what its foreign policy in the 21st century should look like" .

Mr. Donatelli said he did see "weak foreign policy and economic mismanagement" as a valid criticism of both presidents.

Lady Thatcher was the only prime minister to emerge well in terms of foreign policy.

Mr Carter's weakness on foreign policy locked the Democratic Party out of the White House for over a decade.

A giant in a Europe of diplomatic pygmies, Mr Bildt would make a fine EU foreign-policy chief.

He said that he will uphold the friendly foreign policy towards China initiated by his late father and brother.

In east Asia, at least, Mr Bush's foreign policy would embrace the hard-headed realism of his father, George H. W. Bush.

Mrs Clinton heavily criticised that view as proof that he did not have the experience or knowledge to run oversee American foreign policy.

US foreign policy has almost always been a liberal foreign policy.

Rani Jani said the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee will reconsider cooperation with the IAEA.

On Israel, the other chronic foreign policy issue that will bedevil the next secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton would bring baggage as well.

India's foreign policy has not been monolithic. It has danced to the ebb and flow of domestic political and economic events.

Economics was, she said, "a priority of our foreign policy" . But more strategic themes bristled beneath.

This could also produce a muddled foreign policy, with the president pulling in one direction and Congress in the other.

We talked about a wide variety of issues, and I found the Presidents review of our foreign policy challenges particularly insightful.

Our objective . . . is to support our interests over the long run with a sound foreign policy.

Even where the parties do share broad aims in foreign policy, the gloss of bipartisanship tends to dissolve on closer scrutiny.

John based his foreign policy on a hope for western help, bought at the cost of a union of the churches (= submission to the papacy).

Soon I put out a strong statement reaffirming my commitment, drafted by my foreign policy aide Nancy Soderberg.

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.

Since the war, Russian foreign policy has begun to swing back toward cooperation with the West.

"President Reagan's philosophy was peace through strength. My foreign policy philosophy is peace through strength and clarity, " he said.

In terms of foreign policy, America's allies, especially in Europe, would also be unwise to start celebrating, for two reasons.

Opposition parties were quick to paint the visit as the result of an incoherent foreign policy by the Democratic Party of Japan.

Kerry said the country is " on the strongest footing when the president and Congress speak with one voice on foreign policy matters. "

She is a part of every single foreign policy meeting that he has with the rest of his foreign policy team.

By the same token, our allies must be prepared to face the necessary rather than confining foreign policy to so-called soft power.

He took serious questions from the crowd on immigration, foreign policy and health care.

As America's foreign-policy " realists " such as Mr Baker and Henry Kissinger have long argued, talking to foes is often essential.

For the rest of the month, while politics dominated the news, I was dealing with a wide variety of domestic and foreign policy issues.

That will also help the South Korean government to prove to its people that its foreign policy adjustment was the right choice.

Viewer polls taken after this second debate, which focused on foreign policy, showed there was no runaway victor.

He promised strong support for expanding the territory of the United States. He also promised a strong foreign policy.

Mr Brown has so far given few clues about his beliefs in foreign policy beyond the fact that he is a Eurosceptic well-disposed to America.

Biden has been a vocal critic of Bush administration foreign policy, including the way it waged the war on terrorism.

f. Kantakouzenos' foreign policy was decidedly anti-Latin, and he continued to rely on the Turks for aid.

Change is a foreign policy that doesn't begin and end with a war that should've never been authorized and never been waged.

State proposed that it continue to be the " executive agent" for the President for the design and conduct of foreign policy.

Pakistan is the country where all the trickiest issues in American foreign policy seem to come together.

In the run-up to a presidential election, US intellectuals compete hard to shape the foreign policy agenda.

in foreign policy , colby expected an end to invective against the united states and a mellowing of allende ' s third world stance.

Half of the foreign-policy experts but only a third of the public said they were in favour of committing more troops.

The general direction of Britain's foreign policy is mainly decided by the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Yet foreign policy does not always admit the moral point of view -- much less the legal point of view.

My wife, Susan Glasser, editor in chief of Foreign Policy, published one of the first magazine covers comparing him to Mr. Carter.

In his first big foreign-policy speech, he argued that "progress on European defence is in no way part of a competition with NATO. "

"Foreign policy has no lobby of its own, " says Mr Perthes.

More than any other bilateral relationship, that between the UK and the USA permeates all areas of British foreign policy.

He was back on his ground of foreign policy, and he probably reassured his supporters that he was still in command of his campaign.

Meanwhile, Chinese foreign policy scholars were almost queuing up to point out all the problems that come with close ties to North Korea.

"Isolationism" has long been a powerful current of public opinion -- indeed it dominated foreign policy until World War II.

On the Republican side, foreign policy talk is all bluster and braggadocio.

Jimmy Carter had his troubles between his White House staff and his cabinet, particularly over the conduct of foreign policy.

Britain needs to play to its comparative advantages in defence and foreign policy, and its interests in energy, to help move the EU forward.

It seemed to me that the Middle East and Taiwan were polar opposite foreign policy problems.

Exporters are renationalising the energy industries and placing their energy assets at the heart of their foreign policy.

The chief obstacle to a common EU foreign policy has never been institutional. It is, rather, that 27 countries have different interests.

Friedman is one of America's most famous commentators, Mandelbaum one of its most distinguished academic experts on foreign policy.

Americans believe that we're the sole remaining superpower and the objective of our foreign policy is to get people to go along with that.

But states have continued to try to influence foreign policy in other ways.

I told the Congress and the American people that one of America's greatest strengths in the Cold War had been a bipartisan foreign policy.

In the face of the complex and volatile international situation, China has adhered to its independent foreign policy of peace.

It cultivates the cultural values of the decision-makers, so the American foreign policy has a strong flavor of pragmatism .

Non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries has been a fundamental principle of Beijing's foreign policy for decades.

Worse, the proliferation of Chinese resource investment around the world is now creating foreign policy headaches for Beijing.

Third, it has an unusually independent foreign policy, which has turned the emirate into a diplomatic hub.

Germany and France showed that they decide the EU's foreign policy, and that easterners do not count, says one minister in the region.

President Obama also said he plans to take American foreign policy in a new direction.

foreign policy and historical and cultural traditions postulate that China will inevitably adopt such a national defense policy.

In approaching our foreign policy priorities, we have to deal with the urgent, the important, and the long-term all at once.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain laid out a detailed foreign policy blueprint in a speech in Los Angeles.

But near the end the debate did delve into foreign policy and in particular how the United States should deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions.

" Multilateral co -operation within Asia has been a major focus in Chinese foreign policy in recent times , " said Mr Nielsen .

He was calling for "rogue state roll-back" in 1999 when Mr Bush was arguing for a more humble foreign policy (remember that? ).

It has bent American foreign policy out of shape. It continues to spark calls for ever more draconian security measures at home.

Its statesmen used to assert that Germany had no independent foreign policy, only a European policy.

S. is precisely the kind of dilemma that makes China's leadership assume the foreign policy equivalent of the fetal position.

Neither figure is overwhelming, but the Democrat would be happy if he could hope to split the foreign-policy vote with Mr McCain.

Foreign Aid has long been a significant component of American foreign policy.

Medvedev said the classified cables published on the WikiLeaks site just served to show the cynicism of U. S. foreign policy.

The president's foreign policy insight had been that the US is the vital but insufficient power in safeguarding global security.

It would also improve German foreign policy, even though this has not been much of an issue in the campaign.

And such discussions were not special; Iraq was just one of many thorny foreign policy issues raised and debated.

'This nation really does not have foreign policy and has no ability. . . it's a shame that (Japan) easily gave up their last cards.

Lieber also describes foreign policy under the Clinton administration, as the threat of war was no more.

Candour has its place in foreign policy, but it requires a strategy to underpin the rhetoric.

The publication of the sensitive diplomatic cables Sunday exposed years of U. S. foreign-policy maneuvering.

Africa could be the anvil on which a new Chinese foreign policy begins to be forged.

John K. Glenn is head of the foreign policy program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

In three speeches in Prague, Cairo and Accra, he set out a new foreign policy that rejects the Manichean view of his predecessor.

McCain probably would have given himself the power to be judge and jury over any American citizen that didn't approve of his foreign policy.

Inexperienced and Bush-level incurious . She has no record of interest in foreign policy, let alone expertise.

"In the past, Labor has had a strong Asia policy and has emphasised interests rather than values in its foreign policy. "

But it drew immediate fire from liberal bloggers who cited it as an example of her lack of foreign policy expertise.

But there was serious foreign-policy business to be conducted as well.

And yet despite such hopes, they still seem destined to constantly hedge against each other, in both domestic and foreign policy.

Britain's new government has put export promotion at the heart of its foreign policy.

S. foreign policy and that the U. S. government had a hand in spreading AIDS to harm blacks.

Somebody needs to tell that to the United States when it comes to China, many foreign policy experts say.

He also claimed to have defied outside enemies by his wise handling of foreign policy.

Hugely overshadowed by a White House that dominates US foreign policy, the former first lady rarely makes headlines on policy questions.

One could look to John Quincy Adams for an example of the foreign policy ideas to which Obama might aspire.

Yet at the age of 65 it has recast him as, possibly, a giant of American foreign policy.

Bahrain's foreign minister sat down with Foreign Policy yesterday to discuss the standoff.

Watch. After the war our foreign policy is going to be far more naked.

Not a foreign policy of resisting Japan, but one of fawning on her.

The United States, however, is one democracy that has been making democracy and human rights a major part of its foreign policy.

He is also moving quickly to put his own stamp on United States foreign policy, particularly regarding the Middle East.

In Newsweek Niall Ferguson, a British historian, declared that the president had presided over "a foreign-policy debacle" .

The direct security and economic benefits of such a moral foreign policy are hard to measure.

Preaching global Wahhabi Islam has been a cardinal principle of Saudi foreign policy for almost half a century.

In the early years of membership, such defiance tended to arise mainly over foreign policy.

Mr Obama's pledge was all the more forceful because his foreign-policy rhetoric has put store by rules and international consensus.

The Lisbon treaty created a permanent president of the European Council and a foreign-policy supremo, leaving less scope for agenda-setting.

Much of his foreign policy since taking office has been conducted with that objective in mind.

Qaddafi is a nationalist: Qaddafi has conducted an independent foreign policy and, of course, also independent internal policies.

During Putin's presidential tenure, Russia's foreign policy towards Britain can be summarized to be cold in politics and hot in economy.

All this meant that foreign policy in the DPJ's first year in office focused mainly on the strained relationship with America.

At this point, hints about a new course for Russian foreign policy remain mostly that: hints.

Medvedev has put forward a few initiatives in foreign policy, including proposals for a new European security treaty.

The aim of the diplomacy for a state: to defend its national interest and implement its foreign policy.

Britain and the U. S. would no longer be "joined at the hip" on foreign policy, new Foreign Office minister Lord Malloch-Brown said.

IT IS sometimes said that the European Union is an economic giant but a political pygmy, with no foreign policy to speak of.

If we were run out of Vietnam under these conditions, our entire foreign policy would be in jeopardy .

President Obama has sought a stronger renminbi as one of his central foreign policy goals.

The most striking change in American foreign policy since the end of the cold war is the rise in partisanship.

It is the opposite. Opening ourselves up to friendship, honest trade and diplomacy is the foreign policy of peace and prosperity.

Last Tuesday's State of the Union address, delivered the day the protests started, had only a short section on foreign policy.

South Africa's government yesterday faced renewed furore over its foreign policy after it decided to ban a visit by the Dalai Lama.

She was instrumental in securing the passage of the Lisbon treaty, which strengthens the EU's role in justice, migration and foreign policy.

In any event, a President who knew his own mind would always be able to dominate foreign policy.

At Foreign Policy Research Institute salon abt Obama foreign policy, tried to get the mandarins to think about how world sees USA. Tried.

Bush later pushed his "freedom agenda, " which emphasized democracy promotion as an essential ingredient of American foreign policy.

Much of his speech focused on policy, free trade, low taxes, energy independence, and the Vietnam vets' strongest seat, foreign policy.

On foreign policy, he said that "for all the progress we've made, challenges remain. "

Therefore, opposing hegemonism and safeguarding world peace are our established policies and are the foundation of our foreign policy.

It did not even show up on the radar screens of foreign policy experts and political gurus.

In his third government Mr Berlusconi has also pursued an eccentric foreign policy out of kilter with Italy's Western allies.

The poll found that the American public also seemed to have serious doubts about US foreign policy.

He toyed with the idea of coupling it with a plea to bring the various inquiries to an end so as not to increase out foreign policy perils.

And the Union can be diligently effective in doing small foreign policy things, notably in its own neighbourhood.

His reluctance to "carve out a philosophy" of foreign policy seems wise, as these rarely survive first contact with reality.

In foreign policy, Afghanistan is the administration's greatest challenge and an even more striking instance of this gaping realism deficit.

In foreign policy as in so much else, Mr Romney's instinct is to cling to the middle, play safe and avoid controversy.

The president got health care reform passed, and it may turn out to be his single most important foreign policy achievement.

However, the systematic and further investigate to this question from the visual angle of Russian foreign policy is still rare.

Libya has been a major test for China's longstanding foreign policy of nonintervention.

Unlike professional Western armies, the PLA speaks out on foreign policy.

Foreign policy has been moving in a more multilateral direction for some time, certainly since the 2004 election.

Clinton was aggressive in criticizing Obama for some of his campaign tactics and in questioning some of his views on foreign policy.

Mr. Chamberlain was now in complete control of British foreign policy, and Sir. Horace Wilson was his principal confidant and agent.

The United States, which used to scold the Europeans for their reluctance, is uncomfortable with Turkey's newly adventurous foreign policy.

The second is to do with a lack of underlying unity that still bedevils efforts to create a common European foreign policy.

He relied heavily on his intuition in the conduct of foreign policy; he liked to fly by the seat of his pants.

The policy to America is one of important parts of foreign policy in Adenauer's era of FRG.

He said that to develop relations with China is a priority of Uzbekistan's foreign policy.

Robert Lane Greene is an international correspondent for The Economist, currently covering American politics and foreign policy online.

We also welcome the general debate by the General Assembly on "global health and foreign policy" .

Listing the keystones of foreign policy, Cardinal Tauran stressed the "right to life at all stages of biological development" .

But it is no less true that the era in which Europe and transatlantic relations dominated U. S. foreign policy is over.

Richard Holbrooke has had a running feud with Anthony Lake, one of Mr Obama's closest foreign-policy advisers.

The prime minister's spokesman, Dimitri Soudas, has retorted that Canada would not "barter our principled foreign policy" .

TO UNDERSTAND David Cameron's approach to foreign policy, suggests a close ally, bear in mind his belief in openness.

These principles form the bedrock of our foreign policy, and are not to be strayed from.

Foreign policy is always a balancing act between values and pragmatic considerations.

It took more than three years to complete and was hailed in both countries as a major foreign policy breakthrough.

The broader problem for Russian foreign policy is that the country's rulers do not know how to deal with their post-Soviet neighbours.

At that time, German statesmen used to assert that Germany has no independent foreign policy, only a European one.

It's a pleasure to explore with you the role of the economic factor and its impact on country's foreign policy.

But American foreign policy is still defined by the choices our leaders made while ground zero smoldered, and the objectives they set.

The Obama-Clinton duel was among the most vicious in Democratic Party history, and some of the sharpest clashes were over foreign policy.

Years later, opponents of a different administration's foreign policy burned an American flag in protest, and were immediately arrested.

With all of his successes at home, it is a surprising fact of history that his presidency is remembered best for its foreign policy.

"By the way, " he says in praising Mr. Obama's foreign policy record, "he's got a heck of a secretary of state, too. "

And Lenin's important thought of peaceful co-existence had become a leading theory in Soviet Union's foreign policy.

First, a tough stance toward China is part of an overall hardening of his foreign policy.

The Republican House is not planning to throw the gears of foreign policy into reverse, as it is in domestic policy.

By the time I entered middle school, Iran was a major preoccupation of U. S. foreign policy.

McCain's team is worried that Palin might be exposed by her lack of foreign policy experience.

He has served for nearly two years in one of the most sensitive foreign policy posts in the Obama administration.

The prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran is the biggest threat facing the world, according to one of Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisers.

Jostling continues for the two top jobs of president of the European Council and foreign-policy supremo, which may be filled next week.

Chinese foreign policy experts see the forum as a possible model for a more permanent east Asian security system.

I hope to achieve a better understanding of the problems facing the United States and of potential foreign policy solutions.

Rudy Giuliani, having flirted with "realists" , has decided to stick with neocon foreign-policy advisers.

Thus in the case of Russia, geography and exports have combined to shape a foreign policy calculated to accommodate Moscow's sensitivities.

It is the only foreign policy that will not bankrupt us in short order, as our current actions most definitely will.

A centrepiece of Australian foreign policy was the introduction of the Colombo Plan in 1951, aimed at strengthening relationships with Asia.

The State Department maintains that U. S. humanitarian assistance should not be politicized but merely compliment U. S. foreign policy.

Of daily news and policy information from the U. S. Department of State, including economics, politics, society and foreign policy.

His expertise could help counter Republican arguments that an Obama administration would be inexperienced on foreign policy.

The search for energy is now absolutely central to Chinese foreign policy and Iran is a valued supplier of both oil and natural gas.

Foreign Policy A strong defense requires playing an active, interventionist role in world affairs.

Extreme nationalism characterized especially by a belligerent foreign policy; chauvinistic patriotism.

The top Chinese leadership will also change next year, which could well see Chinese foreign policy take on a more strident tone.