The Kirk that had been established at the Reformation and had been largely united since the Declaration of the Covenant in 1638, was divided into Resolutioners and more hard line Protesters by the issue of co-operation with the crown.
Mr Kerry tried to reconcile the two by proposing that America, China and other countries work towards a "Pacific dream" of co-operation on issues ranging from job growth and climate change to pandemic disease and proliferation.But this suggestion did little to abate the two countries' mutual wariness.
The 11 journalists were picked up on a "warrant issued by the judiciary", on charges of "co-operation with Persian-language anti-revolutionary media", local media reported.
It has threatened sanctions against American firms and the withdrawal of co-operation on international issues.
Over the past two years, both governments have reached an unprecedented level of co-operation on border issues.
The small minority of Iranians who dream of American intervention are the most apathetic of the lot.Since he was elected, Mr Bush has resisted detente in favour of co-operation on specific issues.
For all the talk of co-operation on global issues and much activity from France's President Nicolas Sarkozy at the head of both the G8 and the G20, it will often seem like a zero-sum world.
When it published Real Aid 2 a year later, ActionAid tackled the issue of technical co-operation, which it described as "often overpriced and ineffective, and in the worst cases destroys rather than builds the capacity of the poorest countries".
Media campaigns on biodiversity and related issues have had a great impact on other sectors of co-operation, for example, with the European Union (EU).
"We got a lot of information, it's true to say, and we got a lot of co-operation but that remains an outstanding issue.
The issues are further complicated by the fact that neither the evolution of language nor the evolution of co-operations is as yet well understood.
