"Even as Iran disavows article after article in the framework agreement... the international community is beginning to ease restrictions on it.
Less public considerations may also undo him: some Kremlin insiders who have profited from the redistribution of assets under Mr Putin are said to be wary of him, and he has no strong power base of his own.For the moment, Mr Ivanov neither admits nor disavows presidential ambitions.
Mr Belhaj, who commanded a Tripoli militia in the assault against Qaddafi's regime in its final days and now disavows his earlier jihadist views, is suing the British government for its alleged complicity in "rendering" him to the colonel's security services in 2004, when Western governments were trying to bring the Libyan regime in from the cold.
It is at heart a microeconomic model that disavows macroeconomic policy because it treats countries, or even an entire currency zone, as if they were individual households.
As for Mr Kaminski, he now disavows, denies or attempts to finesse many of the previous actions and comments attributed to him.
And unless Iran publicly disavows its (largely rhetorical) ambition to eliminate the state of Israel, the Bush administration is unlikely to moderate its tough stance towards what it considers a rogue state.But America's own policy has made it harder to quarantine Iran.
Algeria, which disavows the Arab League declaration, might start rearming the colonel across his western border.Two further pressing issues for the coalition will be the enforcement of sanctions against the regime and the question of whether the rebels can gain access to Libya's (diminished) oil revenues.
The Chinese government disavows any such ambitions, and even if it had them, might not be able to control its businesses as tightly as some Asians fear.
They could also push much harder to help reconcile the two Palestinian groups and, by the by, insist that Hamas unambiguously disavows violence and, at least de facto, says it accepts Israel.Above all though, Mr Obama must soon spell out in detail his vision for the two states and how it can be achieved.
His books are not bad, either, though Mr Kelly, who disavows the aim of making them popular again, could have done more to explain why he has come to reconsider his youthful rejection of them.In truth, Scott's influence went well beyond a few now-unfashionable Victorians.
In the longer run, if a more durable peace is to be built, the Israelis must seek a sovereign state for Palestinians, who, including Hamas, must in turn reiterate their support for a government that disavows violence and recognises Israel.
