By harassing diplomats, Beijing is putting Hong Kong's special status in the international system in jeopardy.
China has been a believer in the international system in recent decades, he says.
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Gadhafi is a villain, but he was not attacking the international system in the past few years.
Tony was insistent that an equilibrium between nations was the foundation of a lawful international system of peaceful diplomacy.
Only then will our people believe that they have a stake in supporting and shaping the emerging international system.
Because the injury the present crisis has dealt the international system is great indeed, the system's reinvigoration is urgent--and possible.
In the bipolar international system of the Cold War, nations took their cue on nuclear matters from the two superpowers.
They say they hope to have an international system for licensing medicines for five different age groups agreed in November.
Global criminal activities are transforming the international system, upending the rules, creating new players, and reconfiguring power in international politics and economics.
The ABPI said that it hoped to have an international system for licensing medicines for five different age groups agreed in November.
Of course, the international system cannot solve the problem on its own.
My prevention agenda also highlights early action on conflict, such as by mapping, linking, collecting and integrating information from across the international system.
" Iraq and Iran will continue to be ostracized by a Secretary who says "their raison d'etre is to destroy the international system.
Neither country is accustomed to, let alone comfortable with, an international system whose functionality rides in large measure on cooperation between two countries.
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The international system is remarkably resilient, able to slough off troubles.
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What about pushing its undemocratic oil-exporting friends in the Middle East and recognising a need to aspire to a more democratic and consultative international system.
In so doing, it destabilizes the already stressed state-based international system.
"The acquisition of WMD or related materials by terrorists would represent an additional threat to the international system with potentially uncontrollable consequences, " an EU document said.
The challenges the international system will present the government we elect will be harsher, more complicated and more dangerous than the ones its predecessors have faced.
For a time during president George W. Bush's first term in office, the US also recognized that the UN and the UN-based international system is irredeemably corrupt.
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Certainly no self-proclaimed realist can defend a policy based on denuding the US of its power and forsaking a US-based international system for one dictated by its foes.
It would be nice to think the world can be governed by multilateral institutions or that the international system can be managed by 22-member summits, but history says otherwise.
There is no automatic, international system to flag up individuals who have been deported previously from other countries - unlike in the US, which operates a Watch List system.
Both episodes demonstrate that the terrorist ideologues aim to achieve not only a massive loss of life but also substantial disruption of our international system of travel and trade.
The problem is that China cannot be expected to alter its reactive stance as long as it sees itself as an outsider to an international system built by the West.
At the moment they are expecting to see their lives change dramatically in the next couple of years as a result of the international system, so it's blowing into Afghanistan.
On the other hand, it is permissible to excoriate Myanmar or Cambodia on humanitarian grounds, since neither country poses the kind of threat to the international system that realists care about.
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Yet the real disadvantage of complexity in the international system is that it often makes it impossible for decision-makers to comprehend the challenges they face and to deal with them effectively.
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