This article examines U.S.‐Argentine relations during the period of military dictatorship (1976–1983). I argue that during the Gerald R. Ford administration, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's ...subtle support for the Argentine military junta—despite widespread state‐sanctioned violence against perceived subversives—was a continuation of a historical process rooted in the early years of the Cold War: U.S. support for anticommunist Latin American military establishments. By contrast, Jimmy Carter's effort to promote human rights in U.S.‐Argentine relations was a courageous effort to fulfill his campaign promise to bring “competence and compassion” to the Oval Office. Although clearly not unlimited, Carter's emphasis on human rights, particularly evident in his selection of Patricia Derian as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, provided an unprecedented government‐sanctioned arena for human rights advocacy.
Since the mid-1990s, China's and Russia's strategic outlooks have gradually been converging. The two great powers have incrementally shed their mutual apprehensions and started a comprehensive and ...multifaceted cooperation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Simultaneously, as the rift between the US and Russia has opened up and the differences in their views on regional security in Eurasia have become even more evident, China's and Russia's quests for new models for regional security in Central Asia have gained ground. Enveloping the Central Asian states on issues of collective and energy security, both states are sternly against US dominance in international affairs. In this sense, they have initiated a new geopolitical script around Central Asia. As their mutual interests hold sway over US influence regionally, questions remain on whether specific interests are compatible, or harbour new rivalries. Chinese-Russian interaction in Central Asia reveals that there might be limits to the future expansion of their partnership.
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China is rising as a major source of outward direct investment (ODI), but barriers to and protectionism against Chinese investment have been strengthened as well. This situation reflects inherent ...flaws in the architecture governing international investment. This article identifies three of China's key interests in the global investment regime: (1) to reduce investment barriers and depoliticize foreign regulatory review processes; (2) to ensure better protection of its overseas investment; and (3) to secure international recognition of its unique identity in terms of institutional characteristics and development strategy. As China shows more and more interest in building the architecture governing international investment, we suggest that improving investment governance at the bilateral, regional, and multilateral levels is the best strategy for China to adopt. Strategies that China should pursue include (1) accelerating the negotiation and revision of bilateral investment treaties (BITs); (2) promoting regional and sub-regional cooperation; and (3) contributing to the architecture governing global investment.
Strategic Analysis Can Robust Bilateral Cooperation on Common Rivers between Bangladesh and India Enhance Multilateral Cooperation on Water Security in South Asia?
Christensen considers Pres George W. Bush's strategy towards China as a long-term effort to shape the choices the leadership in Beijing makes about how to use China's increasing regional and global ...influence. Rather than trying to rollback or contain the growth of Chinese power, the US has used the combination of a strong US regional presence and a series of creative diplomatic initiatives to encourage Beijing to seek increased influence through diplomatic and economic interactions rather than coercion, and to use that increased influence in a manner that improves the prospects for security and economic prosperity in Asia and around the world. Christensen notes that such effort has been successful because Washington deftly handled many of the traditional issues in the bilateral relationship. He believes that what was truly innovative in the Bush administration's China policy, however, was the intensive and sustained engagement with Beijing on how better to coordinate US and the People's Republic of China's responses to policy problems around the globe. Finally, he stresses that Pres Barack Obama should focus on building the success of Bush's strategy rather than attempting to radically transform US policy toward China.
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The article was highlighted multifaceted activities of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan to ensure the economic security of the joint after the collapse of the USSR and the ...creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. In particular, the author especially emphasizes the fact that this multifaceted interstate activity was based on the fundamental legal framework. This fact, according to the author, reflects the priority importance of international cooperation in the sphere of economic security of Russia and Kazakhstan. At the same time in an article on a particular factual material shows the operation of the two states on the formation of new priorities that form the basis of their national economic security. Particular attention is paid to the strengthening of bilateral economic ties with neighboring regions of Russia and Kazakhstan, which also enhance the economic security of the two leading states of the CIS - Russia and Kazakhstan.
The paper aims at identifying relations between the events which influence Lithuanian-Polish strategic cooperation, defining principal aspects of cooperation dynamics, and analysing recent challenges ...in relations between Lithuania and Poland. For the purpose of analysis the following objectives have been set: 1) to analyse the development of strategic partnership and political dialogue in bilateral relations; 2) to evaluate the importance of security, defence policy, and economic projects in cooperation between the states; 3) to assess the aspect of ethnic minorities in the context of bilateral relations. The authors of the paper seek to review the principal internal and external factors which affect bilateral cooperation between Lithuania and Poland. The following methods of analysis are used in the paper: public statements made by officials, document analysis and discourse formed by the media. The key areas of analysis are the development of political dialogue, strategic cooperation, security and defence policy, economic and energy cooperation, and questions of ethnic minorities in bilateral relations. Presently in the field there is a lack of thorough investigation of similarities and differences of strategic cooperation between Lithuania and Poland.
Faced with Western pressure connected with the delivery of armament and military equipment, the Yugoslav side sought a new solution. It attempted to reestablish bilateral military relations with the ...Soviet Union on the wave of general improvement of interstate and inter-party relations. Initial results of strengthening military relations by the exchange of military delegations of lower ranks were achieved. However, the just began activities were temporarily frozen by the break out of a new conflict due to the Yugoslav reaction to the Soviet intervention in Hungary. General Gosnjak's visit which took place in a cordial and formal atmosphere did not bring the expected results. The Soviets refused to concretize the agreement and deliver any armament and military equipment to Yugoslavia while it was receiving Western military aid and the American military mission was present. Intensification of military relations in the summer of 1957 did not open new perspectives. Marshal Zukov's visit to Yugoslavia marked the high point of the reestablished military relations between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union but it did not bring the expected shift. The dismissal of Marshal Zukov and the beginning of a new conflict between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union stopped the began military reconciliation which remained frozen until the end of 1961.
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