She spoke of the strained relations between the Cayman Islands and the administering Power and of the ever increasing disparity of their interests.

President Barack Obama recently journeyed to Moscow in order to reset strained United States Russian ties.

Troubled relations between Burma s government and its ethnic minorities constitute a serious obstacle in the country s path to stability and prosperity.

A century ago, a French politician was no more likely to advocate peace and detente with Germany than a modern Arab politician is likely to advocate peace and detente with Israel.

The President has appointed the late Ken Saro Wiwa s son as one of his special assistants, in an attempt to mend fences with political elites in the restive delta.

China s role in restraining North Korea s nuclear ambitions and its tense relations with Japan are an additional burden on ties.

French Nuclear testing in the Pacific, and the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior strained French relations with its Allies, South Pacific states (namely New Zealand), and world opinion.

The European Union continues its internal debate over how best to bail out its failing banks and industries, handle the fallout from EU and euro zone expansion, and manage increasingly rocky relations with Russia.

Strained political relations among most of Asia s sub regions make a region wide security structure or more effective resource cooperation difficult to achieve.

In 1054, after centuries of strained relations, the Great Schism occurred over differences in doctrine, splitting the Christian world between the Catholic Church, centered in Rome and dominant in the West, and the Orthodox Church, centered in Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.

America cannot realistically expect its allies let alone countries like Iran and Venezuela, with which its relations are strained to adopt principled foreign policies when Middle East Realpolitik distorts its own foreign policy.

As in Ituri, the repercussions of these tensions had their greatest impact on the civilian population.

NEW DELHI Political transitions in East Asia promise to mark a defining moment in the region s jittery geopolitics.

The other three are Syria s behavior in Iraq, its relations with the US, and the need for domestic reform.

Turkey s recent tense relations with Iran demonstrate this assumption s basic fallacy, and point to a non ideological foreign policy that caters to Turkish national interests as defined by the country s political elite including the post Islamists in power today.

The tense relationship between the incumbent Arab regimes and political Islam is not necessarily a zero sum game.

China must also consider the implications of North Korea s actions on its own fractious relations with Japan.

There was patent gloating about the German defeat everywhere, only thinly disguised behind strained expressions of solidarity.

Flourishing relationships also allow a dynamic balance between focus on the intimate relationships and focus on other social relationships.

Relations

As economic relations deepen, cultural relationships develop.

Somalia Turkey relations are bilateral relations between Somalia and Turkey.

In Egypt, the tense, polarized environment following the military s overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi has created the real possibility of civil conflict.

Weak ties are a broader network, your friends of friends of friends.

Moreover, today s warm politics, cool economics trend is the reverse of the cold politics, warm economics pattern under Koizumi. Last year, Japan s committed investment projects in China fell 24 from 2006, while actual investment volume decreased by 25 , partly owing to regulatory changes in China regarding foreign investment.

International relations.

Defacto Relationships

Regional relations

With all the attention devoted to strained transatlantic relations, it is easy to overlook how often our preoccupations overlap.

These shared values distinguish the Japan India relationship from Japan s relationship with China.

B2B relationships usually have longer maturity times than B2C relationships.

Such relations are called external relations, as opposed to the more genuine internal relations.

No one in our delegation was sure what to expect, given the uneasy relations between our two countries at the time.

His attack on the legislation, which continued unremittingly throughout May and into June and July, further strained his already tense relationship with the government.

A Relationship Strengthened by Crisis

Civil military relations

(d) External Relations

Regional relations

Source Websites of various government agencies.

(c) All six regional TPNs for Asia will be operational by the end of the biennium.

Such mass migration will severely hurt already strained social relations in some countries and lead to unpredictable consequences.

Only the presence of foreign troops slows the further balkanization of the country s already fractious politics.

Capitalizing on positive events People can capitalize on positive events in an interpersonal context to work toward flourishing relationships.

SNA examines the relationships that form between individuals and uses these relationships as the units of analysis.

Institutionalism in international relations comprises a group of differing theories on international relations (IR).