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Meanwhile, the traditional forum for EU US talks, the Financial Markets Regulatory Dialogue which brings regulators together at irregular intervals to haggle over lists of divergent regulations one by one is all too often slow and circumvented.

NATO s Mediterranean emphasis was inaugurated in 1994 through the Mediterranean Dialogue, which linked countries like Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, and Tunisia in security discussions with the Alliance. The Dialogue was not exactly an edifying success, however.

NEW HAVEN In early July, senior US and Chinese officials will gather in Beijing for the sixth Strategic and Economic Dialogue. With bilateral frictions mounting on a number of fronts including cyber security, territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas, and currency policy the summit offers an opportunity for a serious reconsideration of the relationship between the world s two most powerful countries.

At the just concluded Shangri La Security Dialogue in Singapore, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel called China s actions destabilizing. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe echoed this sentiment, declaring that Japan will play a larger role in safeguarding regional security, including by providing patrol ships, training, and military surveillance equipment to countries engaged in territorial disputes with China.

But, with the clamor for amnesty reaching a deafening crescendo, Jonathan relented. Last week, he inaugurated the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North, a 26 member committee composed mainly of northern leaders tasked with opening a dialogue with Boko Haram and working out the terms of amnesty and compensation for victims of the insurgency.

But the new interpretation of Article 9 augurs just the opposite it embeds Japan s military within an alliance system that has been, and will remain, the backbone of Asia s prevailing structure of peace. Abe will make this clear when he delivers the keynote address in Singapore at this year s Shangri La Dialogue, the annual meeting of Asian military and civilian military leaders.