Unilateral intervention by bigger neighbors can only risk wider war.

Their idea was to rival their big neighbor to the north, Chicago.

Germany, the region's largest economy, has been the slowest-growing among its big neighbors.

Ideas," Hogan said, "they're much more dangerous than big or little neighbors.

"Small countries will know that they are at the mercy of their big neighbors."

South Korea has been strengthening ties with its big neighbor in recent years.

In such cases, he said, it might make financial sense for their municipal services to merge with those of bigger neighbors.

Lincoln Center, its biggest neighbor, would like to change that.

But a significant step has been taken in the evolution of relations between this tiny, troubled island and its big northern neighbor.

In recent months, he said, government leaders have visited their three big neighbors to build up personal relationships and make large-scale business deals.