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Carman gamely argues with the BNP supporter, asking him to "vote anyone except the BNP. In a quiet, reflective moment, I urge you to think again." His interlocutor remains unconvinced. Yet on such exchanges - and on the ability of the political classes to reinfuse a dispirited population with a shared sense of purpose - Britain's future depends...
Mexico first needs to relocate its diplomatic mojo. In the 20th century it was known for being the interlocutor between the U.S. and Cuba and for heading the Contadora group of Latin nations that helped broker peace during the Central American civil wars of the 1980s. Many point to former Mexican President Vicente Fox's 2002 falling-out with Cuba as a cause of Mexico's foreign policy retrenchment. But ironically, says O'Neil, a major factor has been democratization. When Mexico was under the dictatorial rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) from 1929 to 2000, the government could...
...third, a key interlocutor with countries like China, Russia, India and Brazil. And providing the right level of support in areas like Afghanistan, Yemen, in the Middle East. So a much more coherent voice, built up from the 27 member countries working together. We are the beginning of that. The treaty gives us the legal basis to do it, but the development will come in the next few years. I'm only into month three. I don't even have a full team yet. But as time goes on, we'll get better...
...Austen privileged convention over emotion. And for Nabokov, love was a clinical affair; a warm body lain on ice. Entomologist, chess-player, master of three languages, and arguably the greatest prose stylist of the 20th century, the ever-meticulous Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov could reach sublime artistic heights, my interlocutor admitted—but who would want to inhabit such chilly...
...Taliban in the south and the east, so that you can bring them to the negotiating table," says retired general Talat Masood. "The Pakistani military also thinks that if they succeed in Afghanistan, the Taliban will be less powerful in Pakistan. The Americans should see Pakistan as an interlocutor for trying to handle these groups politically...