NCSA national capacity self-assessment

Box 6. National capacity self-assessments

The right of nations to self-determination

Indications from national capacity self-assessments

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National policies that strengthened a nation's self-reliance were influenced by external constraints.

We are in a critical stage of the national self-realization of East Timor.

Taken together these elements create more incentives for securing space dominance and defending national self-interests.

Here the lessons of national self-interest must give way to an international understanding.

We need to go beyond national self-interest to global common interest.