His collaboration with the Durham philosophy department led to the setting up of a joint honours degree in Greek and philosophy, and a series of general lectures on the subject of Socrates, which were published in 1992 as Socratic Questions.
The deal offered the hope of burying the ghosts of the past by setting up a joint committee of historians to investigate the mass slaughter of Ottoman Armenians in 1915.But ancient enmities are not so easily cast off.
It had also looked into the possibility of setting up a joint venture between the government and a private company to take charge of the Land Registry together.
The exchanges have discussed the possibility of setting up a joint venture or having Hong Kong Exchanges buy a small stake in the American Stock Exchange, but the management of Hong Kong Exchanges has expressed an interest in acquiring a controlling stake.
Syria has been charged, too, with assisting the re-arming of Hizbollah after the 2006 Israeli war against Lebanon - which it does not dispute - and accused of setting up a joint project with North Korea to construct a secret nuclear reactor, subsequently bombed by Israel, which it still does.
David Cameron and the Pakistani prime minister, Yusuf Rasa Gilani, have agreed to deepen co-operation on fighting terrorism by widening intelligence sharing, increasing UK aid to put 4 million children into school and setting up a joint centre of excellence to fight roadside bombs.
In the meantime, Thames hopes to strengthen its relationship with Syco, with the two companies in the process of setting up a joint development team, in addition to their own separate ones to "keep a very close eye on the brands we produce together and look at future formats that we may want to develop together".
Tensions rose further on February 23rd when the army accused the Tigers of killing one of its soldiers.The Tigers were already losing patience with the government, accusing it of prevaricating over setting up a "joint mechanism" for receiving aid in Tiger-controlled areas.
Albanian officials have proposed setting up a "joint center for exchange of information in the Balkans" to examine the problem.
To simulate the pre-existing cracks, the 3D element partition method is employed, which avoids the problems of specially setting up joint element and modification of mesh scheme.
