Modernization à la Carte?

This approach is also known as the opt in à la carte approach

Someone from their board came and said, What would you do if you had carte blanche in a classroom?

The temptation is to treat the list as an à la carte menu and select only those that one especially fancies.

(b) The à la carte approach allows States to limit the application of the communications procedure to certain provisions of the Covenant.

We agree with the Secretary General that the issues contained in the report should not be treated as an à la carte menu.

Nuclear weapon States should not assume that the indefinite extension of the NPT in 1995 gives them carte blanche to retain nuclear weapons indefinitely.

A tony à la carte sanctuary with great wines that generate most of the profit? A franchise with pre cooked dishes thawed and heated in huge ovens?

We fully agree with the Secretary General that his report must be considered as a whole package, not as an à la carte menu from which we can pick only the juicy recipes.

But modernization à la carte is an illusion. Its proponents forget the experience of the first half of the twentieth century, when authoritarian modernization was tried in both Germany and Russia with disastrous results.

From a procedural standpoint, Indonesia believes that the à la carte approach that is currently being taken with a view to reaching a decision regarding the expansion of Security Council membership is clearly unwarranted.

It should be noted that it is the Charter and not its Additional Protocol that adopts the à la carte approach in other words, the Charter, unlike the Covenant, establishes an internal hierarchy of social rights.

Receiving from the Kremlin virtual carte blanche to do what he wants in Chechnya, Kadyrov made genuine efforts to transform himself into a popular leader. It is clear that he has not brought down the unemployment rate and has no intention of ending corruption.

To address today s most urgent challenges, Turkey and the EU must commit to building a genuine partnership, based on common interests, in particular security interests, rather than a transactional arrangement that addresses issues à la carte. This necessarily includes a good faith approach to negotiations on Turkey s accession to the EU.

A confrontational US approach toward China, moreover, would imply an additional destabilizing factor Japan might become much bolder than necessary in its foreign policy. After Wilhelm II stopped engaging Russia in the 1890 s, bilateral relations worsened, which provided his ally, Austria, diplomatic carte blanche in dealing with Serbia and, more important, Serbia s Russian patron.

He argues for a Europe à la carte, at least for those outside the eurozone. He entertains the possibility that the UK and other EU countries that have opted out of the eurozone could each negotiate a specific and special deal with the EU, picking and choosing among its various dimensions those that suit them best and cost them the least.

While I agree generally with the Secretary General's assertion that the reforms he proposes should be adopted as a package and not be treated as an à la carte menu, we see the possibility of not reaching a consensus on those measures, in which case it would be prudent to adopt a practical approach and to forge ahead with those proposals on which we can agree.

What constitutes illegal activity in the eyes of the Hainan authorities was not spelled out, but many worry that the order will give carte blanche to the maritime police to interfere with commercial activity in the South China Sea. This approach, according to Stephanie Kleine Ahlbrandt of the International Crisis Group, appears to be part of an overall strategy by Beijing to more forcefully defend its sovereignty claims by operational means.