So my penchant for hugging other people has earned me the nickname Dr. Love.

But the penchant of some States to present their views as universal norms inevitably provokes resistance, unnecessarily politicizes the process and is ultimately unhelpful to the cause of human rights.

With its penchant for constant experimentation and improvement, one might even hope that China will draw lessons and apply them to all of its developing country lending. Who knows, maybe the existing development banks will learn something.

The dangers of America s strategy vacuum and the related penchant for short termism have been mounting for some time. Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter famously raised this concern in a 1996 article in the Harvard Business Review.

But Scotney has witnessed 700 years of tumultuous history from its cosy seat in Bewl River valley in Kent, now inspiration for a graphic novel written by Jamie Rhodes, a mop haired Yorkshireman with a penchant for historical documents.

Hollande s apologists praise his gradualist and consensual approach to addressing the economy s structural distortions. They argue that his penchant for setting up consultative commissions is the best way to forge the consensus required for structural reform, whereas Sarkozy s combative style was counterproductive.

The organizing principle in the new president s foreign policy is one of not having principled, ideological guidelines. Essentially, his approach to international issues is pragmatic, and, in departing from his predecessor s penchant for machtpolitik , Obama has pledged always to exhaust diplomacy first.

Koreans have already shown their penchant for multi lateral diplomacy and trouble shooting through the six party talks. Now, they, and Asians at large, need to bring both their skills and their success to bear on the most pressing global issues of the day.

BERLIN Germans used to joke that Chancellor Angela Merkel s penchant for communicating via fleeting text messages effectively marked the end of traditional historiography. Well, at least American spy agencies seem to have kept full track of the behind the scenes communications in Berlin and beyond.

To be sure, the CCP s opacity, secrecy, and penchant for untruth always implied a credibility problem. But, in the last decade, a series of scandals and crises involving public safety, adulterated food and drugs, and environmental pollution has thoroughly destroyed what little credibility lingered.

Thus, the American art of diplomatic engagement, the ability to talk with different sides while holding one s own views to oneself, has been largely replaced by a penchant for loud talk, finger pointing, self righteousness, and recrimination. Countries used to welcome and look for American engagement.

Experience demonstrates the dangers that can arise when vulnerable powers act independently. One need look no further than Israel, with its penchant for overreaction on security matters, or Iran, with its insistence on enriching uranium, to see what can happen when an isolated power bases its actions on a sense of existential vulnerability.

But, with China s leaders now aggressively demonizing Japan and pressing disputed territorial and maritime claims more assertively than ever before, the country is being thrust in a direction that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with his penchant for historical revisionism and highlighting Japan s nationalist past, may in some ways have already favored back to the nineteenth century.

Hirschman would be aghast at the extent of intrusion into domestic policymaking that the World Trade Organization or the International Monetary Fund engage in nowadays. As international bureaucracies with a penchant for best practices and common standards, these institutions are woefully unsuited to the task of seeking innovative, unique pathways suited to each country s particular circumstances.

The FARC s record in previous peace talks reveals a penchant for manipulating negotiations to gain national and international legitimacy without actually being willing to strike a deal. Santos could, therefore, have been tempted to choose the Sri Lanka way a ruthless military onslaught to defeat the insurgents, at the price of major human rights violations and the destruction of civilian communities.

Nor are the Chinese casual and infrequent Internet users. Consistent with what the social network theorist Clay Shirky has dubbed a society s penchant for unlocking the cognitive surplus embedded in net based activities, survey data from the China Internet Network Information Center suggest that Chinese netizens log an average of 2.6 hours per day online a full hour longer than the average 15 49 year old Chinese citizen spends watching television.

Nor are the Chinese casual and infrequent Internet users. Consistent with what the social network theorist Clay Shirky has dubbed a society s penchant for unlocking the cognitive surplus embedded in net based activities, survey data from the China Internet Network Information Center suggest that Chinese netizens log an average of 2.6 hours per day online a full hour longer than the average 15 49 year old Chinese citizen spends watching television. 160