This summer, with the Turkish-Brazilian deal rejected and engagement efforts stalled, Turkey's rejection of international sanctions against Iran at the United Nations solidified concerns in Israel that Ankara has become an obstacle to peace and stability in the region, rather than a conduit.
Xenophon says the rejection of international permits is a "bizarre, ideological decision".
The United States is no stranger to isolationism or the willful rejection of international agreements.
For Tony Blair there is no such thing as legal principle, as we saw in the rejection of international legal principle in relation to the Iraq war.
But lately, since North Korea's rejection of international controls on its nuclear weapons program, that sort of talk has died down.
In October, the Maltese government's rejection of international calls to end the shooting of wild birds which have the misfortune to use the island's airspace on their migratory routes was referred to the European court of justice.
The speed with which it was built strongly suggests that the impoverished, isolated country, which tested its first nuclear device in 2006, had foreign help and evaded strict new United Nations Security Council sanctions imposed to punish its rejection of international controls.
WASHINGTON Pakistanan's ambassador to the United States said Monday that his government would welcome outside experts to help investigate the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, reversing Pakistan's earlier rejection of international help.
But her lack of significant qualifications and experience with respect to national public policy, her relatively limited education, her lack of international engagement and her rejection of science in various arenas are.
He has just heard back from his fifth and final UK university on his application to read international relations, but the rejection letter from the London School of Economics wasn't the news he was looking for.
