Word: neighborism
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...suggested by the withering view a bipartisan task force for the U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations recently took of what Russia has already done in Ukraine: "A country that has in the space of a single year supported massive fraud in the elections of its largest European neighbor and then punished it for voting wrong by turning off its gas supply has to be at least on informal probation at a meeting of the world's industrial democracies." Reunification Other neighbors are uncomfortable, too. Russia and Germany agreed in the final days of Gerhard Schröder's Chancellorship...
...March called for a common external energy policy to coordinate relations with Russia and opec, but that quickly ran into objections from E.U. governments which want to make energy policy themselves. Poland, for example, is extremely nervous about Putin's Russia, partly due to historical fear of its giant neighbor to the east, and partly because it worries about losing out if Russia and Germany work closely together. Germany, meanwhile, which is Russia's biggest West European customer, seems to be pushing toward greater reliance on Russian sources. Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has taken a job as head...
...Vietnam War, has moved to Hong Kong from New York with the idea that, "Hong Kong would be safer than Saigon; an old-fashioned British enclave." He and his family soon find that nowhere is safe. The girls hear from their amah about the turmoil in their looming neighbor to the north: news of Chinese communists closing down schools and destroying homes during the Cultural Revolution. Their mother tries to escape the tension by surrounding herself with "the charm and comforts of the colonial era," taking lunches on the Peak, and attending services at St John's Cathedral...
...aims to put an end to formal dining. His soft Kanda chairs and angle sofas grouped around a 62-cm-high square table invite guests to sink in, wine, then dine in the same space. The result is a clean, modern look?and no more elbow fights with your neighbor. ligne-roset.tm.fr...
...coal mine of the new global economic order. According to David Skilling, chief executive of The New Zealand Institute, the health of the bird tells us how globalization affects countries on the periphery?and that, of course, includes Australia, despite being five times the size of its neighbor. Geography still matters. And New Zealand, he argues, is being left behind by globalization. "Things are seen more quickly and clearly in New Zealand," Skilling told a gathering at the Lowy Institute in Sydney last week. "Just like in biology, the interesting stuff happens on the edge...