Word: hawkishness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...abandoning past agreements and blocking new ones, Gorbachev likewise is faced with comrades who want to hold even partial progress on arms control hostage to massive American concessions on SDI. As a result of what happened last week in Geneva--however modest that result may be in substance--those hawkish views are less likely to prevail in either capital. --By Strobe Talbott
...dissonance on how to deal with China. "We have the best relations [with China] that we've had in some time--perhaps ever," said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her recent tour of Asia. Yet on June 4 in Singapore, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made headlines with a hawkish speech, asserting that "China's defense expenditures are much higher than Chinese officials have published." Rumsfeld continued, "Since no nation threatens China ... why these continuing large and expanding arms purchases? Why these continuing robust deployments?" The next day, Rice tried to square the circle. "I think that both happen...
...unlikely new executive of an institution focused on improving living standards in the developing world, he is racing to get up to speed on everything from the price of coffee beans in Rwanda to the salaries of schoolteachers in Brazil. Having served four years as Donald Rumsfeld's hawkish deputy at the Pentagon, Wolfowitz suddenly finds himself on the front line of another war: the global battle against poverty, a cause that has lately attracted Hollywood's interest but whose details are anything but glamorous. And so it wasn't entirely surprising that on a four-country swing through Africa...
...wanted to accomplish as Prime Minister. "I believe that only I can bring peace," Sharon replied. That was enough for Adler to work with. He and a team of Sharon advisers, including p.r. man Eyal Arad and U.S.-based political strategist Arthur Finkelstein, focused the campaign not on the hawkish-sounding theme of security but on peace. They produced a bumper sticker--ONLY SHARON CAN BRING PEACE (it kind of rhymes in Hebrew)--and TV ads with soft music showed Sharon strolling the fields on his farm and hugging his granddaughter. There were only a few references to the security...
...Japan and China can't see eye to eye on how to deal with the North. China, together with South Korea, favors compromise, conciliation and economic aid, hoping that such largesse will persuade Pyongyang to give up its nukes. Japan sides with the U.S. in calling for a more hawkish engagement with the North, one that contemplates referring the issue to the U.N. Security Council?a step that could result in economic sanctions being imposed on Pyongyang...