“With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.” AttentionFocusRegardCrisisThreatClimateClimate ChangeInternationalHungerProductionsPrioritiesFragileReceivingPublic HealthMalnutritionTop PrioritiesFood Production Author:Josette Sheeran
“Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.” NumbersAcceptingGrowingIncreaseCrisisResponseInternationalAustraliaSyriaRefugeeSeekersAsylumsAsylum Seekers Author:Tony Abbott
“Mark my words.It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” IfsWorldYearsSaidStatesAmericaRememberGuyPresidentUnitedWatchesUnited StatesMonthsSixStandingTestsMarkCrisisInternationalBrilliantBarackSenatorsUnited States Of AmericaSix MonthsThis GuyMettleJohn Kennedy Author:Joe Biden
“The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.” ProblemIssuesSeriousCrisisInstitutionsInternationalLegitimacy Author:Mo Ibrahim
“More than ever before, crisis management, reconstruction and development demand a new level of cooperation between nations, and between nations and international organisations, where military and civilian instruments are applied in a coordinated way.” NationsLevelsMilitaryDevelopmentDemandManagementCrisisInstrumentsInternationalCooperationCiviliansOrganisationReconstructionCrisis Management Author:Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
“Despite all the dire predictions made in 2001, the Afghans have given the international community, its aid workers and soldiers a large window of opportunity to repair the damage done by 25 years of war. That window, which has stayed open for nearly five years, with amazing good will from the Afghans, is threatening to close unless the world wakes up and deals with the crisis.” WorldYearsMadeWarDoneOpportunityGivenCommunityDealsFiveWindowWake UpCrisisWorkersSoldierInternationalAidsDespiteDamageFive YearsPredictionsThreateningGood WillInternational CommunityWindow Of Opportunity Author:Ahmed Rashid
“Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.” PeopleShouldYearsHas BeensSometimesDoneAgeYears AgoShould HaveCrisisAgreeFinancialInternationalObviousArchitectureShould Have Been Author:Gordon Brown
“When our sailors in the Persian Gulf accidentally strayed into Iranian waters, that could have sparked a major international incident. Some folks here in Washington rushed to declare that it was the start of another hostage crisis. Instead, we worked directly with the Iranian government and secured the release of our sailors in less than 24 hours.” GovernmentWaterHoursMajorsCrisisInternationalFolksReleaseIncidentsSailorIranianHostageSecuredPersianPersian GulfHostage Crisis Author:Barack Obama
“All the words that George Bush used in public during the early stages of the crisis - "wanted, dead or alive," "a crusade," etc. - suggest not so much an orderly and considered progress towards bringing the man to justice according to international norms, but rather something apocalyptic, something of the order of the criminal atrocity itself. That will make matters a lot, lot worse, because there are always consequences.” MenMatterWantedUsedOrderJusticeAliveProgressStageHe ManConsequenceCrisisInternationalCriminalsEtcNormAtrocitiesOrderlyApocalypticCrusades Author:Edward Said
“I'm very proud that President [George W.] Bush took on AIDS relief. It was the largest single response by any country to a major international health crisis, and there are millions of people who are alive today in Africa and other developing countries because of that program.” PeopleCountryTodayPresidentMillionsAliveProudMajorsProgramCrisisResponseInternationalAidsDevelopingReliefLive For TodayDeveloping CountriesPresident George W Bush Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I think that both Russia and other international actors, including those who are more actively engaged in the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis (that is the Federal Republic of Germany and France, the so-called Normandy Quartet, certainly, with close involvement of the United States, and we have intensified our dialogue on this issue), we should all be committed to the full and unconditional implementation of the agreements that were achieved in Minsk. The Minsk Agreements have to be implemented.” ThinkingShouldStatesActorsUnitedUnited StatesIssuesCrisisIncludingInternationalCommittedRussiaDialogueFranceEngagedGermanyAgreementResolutionRepublicUnconditionalInvolvementImplementationQuartetsUkrainianNormandy Author:Vladimir Putin
“We spoke about economic sanctions only recently in Lima, within the framework of APEC. Almost all the leaders represented at APEC (the Asia Pacific region), Pacific countries, spoke about the same thing, namely, that we are going through a very acute crisis in world trade, international trade, related, among other things, to restrictions on the markets of certain countries.” WorldCountryCertainLeaderEconomicCrisisTradeInternationalRelatedRegionsSpokesAsiaFrameworkRestrictionSanctionsPacificWorld TradeInternational TradeEconomic Sanctions Author:Vladimir Putin
“Political uncertainty around the world has more than doubled since the election of Trump. To find anything comparable we have to go way back, to the late 1920s for example, the times of the Great Depression. Or think of the United Kingdom in the 1970s, when the International Monetary Fund had to help the country out with a dramatic rescue operation. Up until the Greek crisis, that was the last time that the IMF was forced to intervene to such an extent in Europe.” ThinkingWorldWayCountryHelpingLastsPoliticalUnitedExampleTrumpLateEuropeElectionCrisisInternationalKingdomsAround The WorldUncertaintyOperationsGreekDramaticFundRescueLast TimeMonetaryGreat DepressionUnited KingdomImf Author:Nicholas Bloom
“I have a range of scenarios. One of them is a chaos, that what could happen is Congress does step up a little bit and the administration is paralyzed. And we go through all kinds of constitutional crises, impeachment or the 25th Amendment removal process. Another frightening scenario is Donald Trump is steering his way to a series of international confrontations at the same time as he's appeasing Russia.” WayKindLittlesDoeHappensBitsProcessStepsTrumpLittle BitCrisisSeriesChaosInternationalCongressRussiaAll KindsAdministrationRangeAmendmentsFrighteningScenariosConfrontationStep UpRemovalParalyzedSteeringImpeachment Author:David Frum
“In the eighties, we asked for international coalition against terrorism after the Muslim Brotherhood crisis in Syria when they started killing, of course they were defeated at that time. We asked for the same thing. So, this is a long-term policy that we base our policy on for years now.” YearsLongCoursesTermPolicyCrisisKillingInternationalTerrorismLong TermBrotherhoodDefeatedSyriaEightyCoalitionsMuslim Brotherhood Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Each powerful player, or coalition of players, will make concessions in areas where it has relatively less at stake in exchange for other such players making reciprocal concessions in other areas where it has relatively more at stake. Such trades are collectively rational insofar as they get each of the powerful players more of what it wants. But such trades are also dangerous because the whole international rule-system will become incoherent and therefore vulnerable to crises that will continue to become increasingly severe.” WantWholePowerfulPlayerDangerousAreasCrisisTradeInternationalRationalVulnerableStakesSevereCoalitionsConcessionsReciprocal Author:Thomas Pogge
“Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.” BelieveUnderstandingNumbersCrisisInternationalBelieve In Me Author:Pierre Salinger
“This weapon [the atomic bomb] has added an additional responsibility - or, better, an additional incentive - to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It provides an overwhelming inducement for the avoidance of war. It emphasizes the crisis we face in international matters and strengthens the conviction that adequate safeguards for peace must be found.” WarMatterFacesScienceFoundSoundResponsibilityWeaponsBasesCrisisInternationalConvictionBombsLastingOverwhelmingAdequateIncentivesAvoidanceAtomic Bomb Author:Leslie Groves
“Pouring arms into the spreading cauldron of war risks exacerbating the crisis in Iraq. A fully inclusive international diplomatic process should be attempted and is urgently needed now, before the fires of war and militancy spread further in the region.” ShouldWarProcessFireRiskMilitaryArmsNeededCrisisInternationalIraqSpreadRegionsPouringDiplomaticCauldronsMilitancy Author:David Cortright
“Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability of ecosystems to deliver vital services to human populations. The Red List gives all of us a practical tool for raising awareness of the biodiversity crisis and for forging new partnerships within the international community.” IfsWorldGivingHumansCommunityLosesAbilityAnimalAwarenessRedToolsCrisisPlantSpeciesInternationalPopulationListsPracticalsPartnershipDoomedEcosystemsInternational CommunityBiodiversityForgingHuman PopulationRaising Awareness Author:Achim Steiner
“There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right.” HumansRealCountryGrowthDemocracySecurityHealthDevelopmentHealthyDiseaseDignityTreatsCrisisInternationalPopulationSpreadSustainabilityNational SecurityNo HopeHuman DignitySustainable DevelopmentMalnutritionTacklingAssisting Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland
“The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.” WorldOrderKeysCrisisThreatHistoricalEnvironmentalInternationalDisasterNew WorldNew World OrderWorld OrderEnvironmental Crisis Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.” JobsMovingSimpleCrisisTradeInternationalCongressAdministrationInternational TradeAmerican Jobs Author:Byron Dorgan
“I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.” WantWarStatesProblemMovingCommunityUnitedUnited StatesFriendsLogicCrisisInternationalBritishMoving ForwardFranceKeep Moving ForwardInternational Community Author:Dominique de Villepin
“Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.” PeopleWorldMatterStoriesSeemsFilmReadingLiteratureStarsWorryFantasyRocksEmotionalMembersModelsConcernCrisisLuckFortuneInternationalFolksNineSettingTraditionalSettingsCentsNinetyRock StarMillionaireJetAristocracyNinety NineEnglish LiteratureFilm StarsFinanciers Book:And the Judges Said&…: Essays Source: And the Judges Said&…: Essays
“I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.” MadeResponsibilitySupportGroupsCrisisInternationalPrimariesMinoritiesTreatmentAdequateRecommendationsKosovo Author:Emma Bonino
“This is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises, by definition, require international solutions. Peacekeeping is a response to conflict, is a response to situations in which often it is not the business of any one particular country to get into. It seems to me, therefore, that the world will for the foreseeable future need peacekeeping.” WorldNeedsCountrySeemsGovernmentTogetherPurposeCommonSituationParticularConflictSolutionsCrisisInstitutionsResponseInternationalDefinitionsGet TogetherProblems And SolutionsSolution To A ProblemPeacekeepingCommon Purpose Author:Shashi Tharoor