Equality or Estrangement

Europe does not benefit from this estrangement either.

Nor is there any military estrangement between the two countries.

There is now no longer any ideological hostility between Russia and the West. Estrangement?

American leaders will welcome her election as proof that the estrangement in bilateral relations is over.

The Queen broke down in grief and guilt over their estrangement at the beginning of her reign.

Courtship gave way to estrangement during the second phase, as US policy for much of the 1960 s sought to isolate China.

Thus, the current US Japanese estrangement is being driven by a spiral of mistrust that does not stem from geo strategic concerns.

Turkey, too shares some of the responsibility for this mounting process of estrangement. Erdogan s behavior in Davos was, at the very least, irresponsible.

In the 8th century, estrangement between the Italians and the Byzantines allowed the Lombards to capture the remaining Roman enclaves in northern Italy.

But the current estrangement from Europe the cradle of Russian civilization and modernization threatens Russia s identity and will increase its geostrategic risks in the future.

Complete estrangement from the US in Latin America will not only harm hemispheric relations, but may discredit broader ideas that are closely associated with the US.

And there is the experience of Ukraine s Orange Revolution in 2004, which failed a few years later due to the estrangement, incompetence, and corruption of its leaders.

Poverty, social inequality, injustice, social exclusion and the estrangement between expectations and reality bring about an element of instability, working against the strengthening of democracy and development.

While today s quarrel is about who should pay for restructuring Greece, the real issue is the latent distrust between the two partners, which carries the danger of a permanent estrangement.

This conservative trend did not follow up on the reformists' engagement with the modern ideas of the European Enlightenment, arguing instead that these represented a further estrangement from authentic Islamic values.

BERLIN Turkey s no last month (a vote cast together with Brazil) to the new sanctions against Iran approved in the United Nations Security Council dramatically reveals the full extent of the country s estrangement from the West.

The West, and Europe in particular, really can t afford to alienate Turkey, considering their interests, but objectively it is exactly this kind of estrangement that follows from European policy towards Turkey in the last few years.

When, after the UN decision, United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates harshly criticized Europeans for having contributed to this estrangement by their behavior towards Turkey, his undiplomatic frankness caused quite a stir in Paris and Berlin.

When the NATO Allies gather in Istanbul, much of the talk will concern the divisions between America and Europe over Iraq. But Europe is not alone in its estrangement from the United States under President George W. Bush's leadership.

If Washington is serious about these words, it should transform this commitment into a long term and comprehensive alliance that can survive the current estrangement and continue even after Korean unification by making a joint declaration with South Korea's government at the highest level.