But are unions relevant anymore?

And it repeatedly uttered threats that all options are on the table.

But he must think strategically about the future.

The stakes for Indonesia are high.

That idea is foolish economically and strategically.

Cooperation with NATO also looks strategically wise.

And the discussions initiated by her in the state assembly are still relevant.

Many of the problems that spurred the London summit remain real.

In that case perhaps all of those crisis induced bad decades are no longer relevant.

But this does not mean that breaking up the euro would be desirable, or even tolerable.

China s economic ties to Burma s rulers are strategically important for both sides.

Historically, small, strategically oriented states have wielded global power.

Demographically and strategically, Poland is by far the most important of the EU s new members.

The US also has a strategic interest in helping Germany and Europe contend with this crisis.

Who would have thought that, at the dawn of the twenty first century, the old Enlightenment debates would still be so potent?

Foreign investment is limited in sectors that the EU considers to be strategically and politically important.

The mainland was simply too large and too important economically and strategically to alienate.

This raises the question of whether Israel s repeated refrain that all options are on the table implies that even a nuclear strike is possible.

Talmon responded with The Fatherland is Imperiled, a pivotal article whose conclusions are as relevant today as they were in 1981.

Who would have thought that, at the dawn of the twenty first century, the old Enlightenment debates would still be so potent?

But the move proved to be a strategic defeat, given that it significantly diminished the United States political influence in Iraq.

However, while ELN may be strategically beaten, the FARC is not.

Strategically, however, China and the US will have to rely on one another for a long time.

Both India and China are each seeking greater influence over the strategically important country of Myanmar.

Central Asia s hydrocarbon reserves, and its pivotal location, make it strategically important for many countries.

It s no use complaining about Russia s strategic bullying when we are not being strategic ourselves. The West can t change Russia s behavior with persuasion, so it must try to use its leverage make the Nabucco pipeline bypassing Russia a reality, build LNG terminals, include energy in Europe s Common Foreign and Security Policy, diversify supply, and screen companies seeking capital in London s stock exchange more carefully.

Nor do Iran and Turkey share a common vision with regard to the strategically sensitive Gulf region.

It s no use complaining about Russia s strategic bullying when we are not being strategic ourselves.

Via the lake and once past the 24,000 island archipelago beyond it, Stockholm has access to the Baltic Sea, placing the city in quite a strategic hotspot.

Most of these less strategically important businesses are now in dire economic straits.

Despite its frequent economic booms, Asia is also a strategic and security minefield.

The key lesson of the last half century is that policymakers must be strategic, rather than comprehensive.

It is a beautiful, mountainous, strategically important, and perennially contested region in which many people have never truly felt Indian.

The arguments against creating a European single currency and then allowing Greece to cheat its way into membership were valid back in the 1990s and, in theory, they still are.

There could be no greater opportunity for doing so than this strategically crucial window in the history of Europe and the southern Mediterranean.

But the choice of the ten ministries was strategically clever, given the Muslim Brotherhood s coming battles with SCAF.

Indeed, the entire Mediterranean region, including the strategically located North African coast, plays a crucial role in Europe s security calculations.

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The installation was claimed to be necessary for remote surveillance of the strategically located Andaman and Nicobar islands as well activities on the coastal seas.

The fog of war doesn t simply happen combatants contribute to it strategically, with their attempts to mystify and confuse adversaries.

The Amazonian city of Iquitos is strategically located on the banks of three rivers the Nanay, the Itaya, and the mighty Amazon.

Europe has not only historical moral obligations to Israel, but also security interests that link it to the strategically vital Eastern Mediterranean.

Although this stance is technically wrong, it is strategically rational, given the West s wariness regarding Iran s true intentions.

While these issues are global, they are most urgent in emerging markets, where they are undermining the social and economic progress on which the rest of the world increasingly relies.

For example, Egypt, with its control of the Suez Canal and its cold peace with Israel, is too important strategically to be simply abandoned.