America s Perilous Pivot

A Chinese Pivot?

America s Unhinged Pivot

Obama s Pacific Pivot

Europe s Asian Pivot

Nuclear Disarmament s Asian Pivot

Europe s Smart Asian Pivot

China s North Korean Pivot

Shinzo Abe s Pivot To Asia

A Pivot to the People

This is a back step pivot.

This would be an example of one pivot.

It's the pivot, it's biology, it's the natural instinct.

But you know the object is just a pivot.

It's a pivot between a process and a system.

This issue continues to hinge on the training of some 600 security auxiliaries drawn from within the ranks of the FN.

The latter has created a multinational consortium for emergency mapping of which UNOSAT is the pivot.

The technical questions are complex, and the proverbial devil really is in the countless details. But prospects for a deal will hinge on resolving three broad issues.

Attainment of the MDGs would largely hinge on how the productive sector was harnessed to enable it to generate the resources necessary to achieve the goals in question.

It is generally believed and there is a modicum of truth in it that success in nuclear disarmament does not hinge on technical issues, but is a matter of political will.

If the Chinese are successful in shifting away from North Korea, they have to pivot somewhere. And that place is South Korea.

The EU must make it clear that it is ready to support Serbia and the region as a whole in realizing its European aspirations. European security is hinged on Serbian integration, just as Serbian aspirations hinge on the EU.

We have a long way to go, probably in a climate that will not turn favorable to immigration for many years. How much progress we can make will hinge on our ability to break through the myths about migration.

But, while the French election s outcome will hinge to a crucial extent on European crisis politics, Germany s government acts as if this were none of its concern. Instead, the main almost exclusive topic in Berlin is the upcoming election.

The correction in US policy actually extends even to terminology. American diplomats have now abandoned the term pivot altogether, owing to its military connotation, in favor of rebalancing.

There are some larger regional consequences in all of this. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has tenaciously fought for its place as the geopolitical hinge between East and South Asia, and an important player in Asia Pacific economic and security diplomacy.

If the Round is to be completed by 2006, which is widely recognized as the only narrow window available, further progress will now hinge on the outcome of the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference, to be held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2005.

Nonetheless, warnings that the Atlantic partnership is eroding are unduly dire. Tellingly, US President Barack Obama s administration has replaced the term pivot, which implies a turn away from something, with rebalancing.

The possible existence of the organization's responsibility appears to hinge on whether the organization's binding decision actually requires the wrongful act to be done, or whether the act is just one of the ways that a member State may select when implementing the decision.

Although the US is certainly undertaking a strategic pivot to Asia, America alone cannot construct a viable security structure for the region. From India to Japan, every Asian country must play its part.

In Europe, once torn apart by war, armed conflict among EU member states is now almost unthinkable. The EU s institutional architecture facilitated the pivot from devastating and recurrent wars to peace and prosperity.

That said, the economic outlook can never be fully analyzed with conventional statistical models, for it may hinge on something that such models do not include our finding some way to replace one narrative currently a tale of out of control debt with a more inspiring story.

America s strategic pivot to Asia adds more tension. The longer these frictions fester, the greater the risk of an accident or miscalculation leading to a military response culminating in the ultimate break up nightmare.

When push came to shove, Varoufakis faced the difficult choice of going along with more of the same, despite knowing that it would fail, or trying to pivot to a new approach. He bravely opted for the latter.

America s supposed pivot to Asia took a back seat in 2014 to the crises in Ukraine and the Middle East. To what extent has uncertainty about the US commitment in Asia stoked tension between China and America s Asian allies?

With the US blueprint for its withdrawal from Afghanistan completed by Obama earlier on Clinton s journey, one might think so. In any case, Clinton s tour appears to confirm the central fact of US diplomacy nowadays the Asia pivot is complete.

Something along these lines is likely to be no less critical for Asia, where the US, which is also a Pacific power, has vital interests and deep commitments. America s strategic pivot to Asia thus needs to be substantial and lasting.

Egypt is not the first country to struggle in the critical revolutionary pivot from a repressive past to a better and more just future. Nor is it the first country to combine an uncertain political transition with worrisome economic and financial conditions.

Those strong words reflect a new sensibility in Washington. As former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared in one of her last foreign policy speeches, the US is not planning to pivot away from Europe to Asia, but rather with Europe to Asia.

Moreover, China s relationship with the United States is deteriorating, owing to conflict over America s foreign policy pivot toward Asia and disputes over cyber security. China has already restricted access to its market for some US based technology firms, and more such actions may follow.

Unless emerging market governments take advantage of the limited space provided by their foreign exchange reserves and floating currencies to enact vital structural reforms, the onus of adjustment will fall on interest rates, compounding the effects of slowing growth and the risks associated with bad debt. Whether this becomes a systemic issue affecting the entire global economy will hinge on China.

PARIS For some time now, a certain strategic vision has been gaining traction the United States is becoming energy independent, paving the way for its political retreat from the Middle East and justifying its strategic pivot toward Asia. This view seems intuitively correct, but is it?

But no one should have any illusions about US policy. Despite America s pivot to Asia, it intends to stick to its two pronged approach seek to maintain a balance of power with the help of strategic allies and partners, while continuing to accommodate a rising China.

Abe would then have an opportunity to pivot from the past to the future by declaring Japan s intention to be generous and constructive. He could talk about the sort of Asia he would like to help build and describe the kind of regional institutions that he believes are necessary.

But, rather than keeping an eye on that ball, the United States wasted the first decade of this century mired in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it in a recent speech, American foreign policy will pivot toward East Asia.