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.
Because the injury the present crisis has dealt the international system is great indeed, the system's reinvigoration is urgent--and possible.
Global criminal activities are transforming the international system, upending the rules, creating new players, and reconfiguring power in international politics and economics.
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.
The international system is remarkably resilient, able to slough off troubles.
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"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.
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.
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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As the talking continues, the international system disintegrates.
The attack has changed international attitudes because other nations realized terrorists will go "anywhere in the international system" to find security gaps and because citizens of 17 nations were on the targeted plane, Napolitano said.
They trade a very narrow conception of power in the international system based on nuclear weapons for a much broader one based on economic integration and development that really brings them much more security in the long term.
Today no one is any more willing to treat Iran as the enemy of the international system it has been for 30 years than they were before Israel exposed the Francop cargo of terror for all the world to see.
As I found in my former department, if public servants are given this framework they work with dedication and pride and provide a service, which in the case of DFID, is known across the world as one of the finest development agencies in the international system.
In the bipolar international system of the Cold War, nations took their cue on nuclear matters from the two superpowers.
He has also been closely involved in attempts to reform the international financial system for the last three decades.
The investment banker Felix Rohatyn has been thinking about what happens to the international financial system after the dust settles from the current credit crisis.
It might be motivated to some extent by the desire to leave the international finance system but the result is among the best within the general spending party.
Welcome to the international financial system of the past generation.
These future historians will wonder at a society that tolerated what amounted to a government-supported gambling casino known as the financial sector, which destroyed the savings of tens of millions of people and brought the international banking system to the brink of collapse, while allowing those responsible to walk away with hundred-million-dollar fortunes.
This failure should lead us back to the drawing board to re-design the international monetary system, reversing the trend that prevailed during the 20th century.
Mr Zhou calls for a radical reform of the international monetary system in which the dollar would be replaced as the main reserve currency by a global currency.
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Finally, making the dollar as good as gold, and restoring gold to the center of the international monetary system, will give the Unites States an enormous boost in soft power.
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