It remains to be seen how the American public will respond to its national U turn.

Now, the challenges are complicated by politics, market forces, and national interests.

For the sake of its own national interests, Israel must come to terms with its neighbors.

Their political leaders tend to their own, not to Europe in any true sense.

Now, the challenges are complicated by politics, market forces, and national interests.

Congress always pays attention to squeaky wheels, and special interests press it to legislate foreign policy tactics, codes of conduct, and sanctions for other countries.

Strong economic and ethnic pressure groups fight for their self interested definitions of the national interest.

A useful way forward in this respect may be to rethink fundamentally the concept of national interest.

Emerging markets have simply become too big and too important to be allowed to play by their own set of trade rules. Their leaders must do more to tackle entrenched domestic interests and encourage foreign competition.

Many, if not most, of the members no longer recognize NATO as central to their national interest.

We allowed convenient cultural stereotyping to sustain what we believed was the expedient pursuit of our national interest.

Their leaders must do more to tackle entrenched domestic interests and encourage foreign competition.

It is now necessary to show that democracy is the best path for Palestinians to attain their national goals.

But it also demonstrates the robust assertion of national interest by new players on the global scene.

Government parties were also hurt by the nationalistic rhetoric of center right parties, which repeatedly warned against a betrayal of national interests.

America s challenge is to escape the Cold War mind set, China's challenge is to transcend its past in the name of its present national interest.

What will happen should crude strength and hard language prove inadequate to the task of insuring Russian national interests?

This increasingly complex web of intersecting national interests is the face of international diplomacy in the twenty first century.

But the Union's capacity to act as a union is now a pre condition to securing each European country's national interests.

Defending the national interest still rallies their publics the exercise of power remains at the heart of their diplomatic calculations.

China has shown itself adept at assertively promoting its national interests and playing classical balance of power geopolitics.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon told the summit overnight that now is the time to rise above national interests.

In areas which serve their national interest, individual members should decide whether to retain wholly national control or whether to co operate with others.

China is clearly pleased to see that the United States is now also placing cool calculation of its national interests at the forefront of its foreign policy.

But, while Europe no doubt remains important for asserting both common and national interests, it is no longer a project of the future.

The international community must underscore that its members are acting in the service of their national interests, and not simply for Israel s sake.

After all, regulatory disparities are not just a product of divergent national interests how effectively diplomacy is practiced and coordinated can play a role as well.

Now, when it s certain that ICJ s Advisory Opinion is absolutely negative for Serbia s national interest, it is opening the question of responsibility of authors and perpetrators of this defeated policy.

But self interested indifference does not mean a lack of mutual concern.

At the same time, America s straitened resources mean that its new global role will require more careful consideration of national interests in setting priorities.

Iran s Young Guard

It's emotional. There is so many interests.

Factors involved in an equitable balance of interests

Many French writers also express a vivid feeling of national decline, and many ordinary citizens believe that the rules of the global economy work against French national interests.

The remains of Afghan national heroes.

Through its wide ranging experience of convergence of national interests and values, the EU has emerged as a model of multilateralism and as the most powerful normative actor in all areas of governance.

With elections looming in November, President George W. Bush could not sacrifice the 25,000 wealthy cotton farmers or the 10,000 prosperous rice farmers and their campaign contributions.

Once again, America s lack of commitment to multilateralism, its obstinacy, and its willingness to put political expediency above principles and even its own national interests has triumphed.

It's the subordination of genetic interest to other interests.

The Revolution of interests would not be enough.

Tom has a wide range of interests.

But this EU will have a future only if its member governments and peoples are willing to invest a substantial part of their political success and their national interests.

France s loss of influence in Europe is no longer at stake today, because the notion of influence presupposes that the overriding preoccupation of EU member states is to advance their own national interests.

With thriving economies came increased strategic clout, leading to the rise of regional geopolitics shaped by national interests and fears, rather than by external forces.

We are choosing to cut loose the anchor of the past, because it is entirely necessary to reach a better future for our national interests, for the American people, and for the Cuban people.