Farther afield, we have also assisted the responses to protracted crises in Africa, including in the Sudan, the Niger, Malawi and in southern Africa more broadly.

The Office of the High Representative worked to facilitate contacts and cooperation both within the region and farther afield among legal assistance organizations, prosecutors and law enforcement agencies dealing with organized crime and terrorist networks.

So often, particularly at a young age, we look far afield for our models of the meaningful life, and sometimes they're in our own kitchens, talking on the phone, making us dinner, doing all that keeps the world going around and around.

The world cannot afford a nuclear armed Iran. And I haven t even mentioned the challenges of Libya, Yemen, or, further afield, Pakistan, or the plague of extremism now coursing through the northern part of Sub Saharan Africa and parts of Central Asia.

So, to be blunt, NAM survives because of America s recent global domination and its efforts to impose its policies globally. And, with a rising China seeking to do much the same in its immediate neighborhood (and perhaps farther afield in the future), the movement has a second reason for surviving as a check on the super powerful.