More broadly, Mattis defended the traditional American strategic posture of constructive alliance-building backed by overwhelming military power.
The implications for decision-making are serious given that manipulation can easily give rise to blocking and vilifying coalitions instead of constructive alliances to address common challenges and put in place policies in line with reality [11, 21, 24, 25].
His substantive projects include work on the nature of structural racism; the potential for forging constructive alliances between immigrants and African Americans; and responses to further school re‐segregation in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in the Seattle/Louisville desegregation cases.
The U.S. needs a Europe that is engaged, sensible, serious, constructive with the transatlantic alliance".
"Under Malema, the ANC Youth League could never play a constructive role in the alliance or in society.
What can be done in the remaining 750 days of the MDGs to effectively improve coordination and replicate constructive models of national alliances?
But many activists also worry about the way their policy of "constructive opposition" to (ie, informal alliance with) Tony Blair's government is turning out in practice.
They have provided the coalition with intelligence on the Northern Alliance, played a constructive role at last week's conference in Bonn on forming a new transitional government, and want to participate in Afghanistan's reconstruction.
The U.S. needs a Europe that is engaged, sensible, serious, constructive with the trans-Atlantic alliance, and that's what we all have.
We are against the development of national nuclear deterrents … We believe in the inter-dependence of the western alliance and will put forward constructive proposals for integrating all Nato's nuclear weapons under effective political control so that all the partners in the alliance have a proper share in their deployment and control".
The theme of the International Day this year is Indigenous peoples building alliances: Honouring treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements Despite progress towards meeting some Millennium Development Goals, structural inequalities and social exclusion persist in some countries.
