Implementation was facilitated by planning members who were perceived as compelling leaders and who could get cooperation from front line staff: Buy-in is extremely important - getting principals and strong people on the committee.
"This is known in the literature as 'disguised compliance', where superficial cooperation is a front for concealing abuse.
Americans also must not get lost in the rhetoric of war on terrorism to such a degree that Chinese "cooperation" on that front will blind us to reality.
Dagan praised ongoing GOI-USG cooperation on this front, and added that domestic economic problems were creating additional pressure on the regime.
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, complained of Russia's lack of cooperation on numerous fronts.
The agreements signed by the two presidents included promises of cooperation on numerous fronts, among them travel and tourism, agriculture, education, scientific research and banking.
The devastating terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, and biological, chemical and nuclear threats, make it imperative to increase the cooperation among these front-line organizations, whose computer systems are in many cases not even linked to one another.
But the fact that this incident did not derail cooperation on other fronts -- and was quickly resolved at the political level -- is an indication of how inter-Korean relations have matured since the summit of 2000.
If he fails to win approval before the old Senate adjourns, Mr. Obama's advisers and allies worry that the relationship with Russia will be frozen at a time when they consider it critical to increase Russian cooperation on several fronts, most notably pressuring Iran to give up its nuclear program.
The European Union, Russia and China, among others, congratulated Rouhani on his victory and called for continued cooperation on all fronts.
