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Indeed, Germany has never had more clout in the EU.
Thus, as global multilateralism has given way to increased bilateralism in recent years, the EU’s strategic clout has declined.
In order to overcome challenges posed by the EU’s ongoing identity crisis, China must promote consistency within and outside Europe and facilitate Europe’s efforts to retain its global clout.
Russia is literally buying its way back into the international system as a preeminent actor, one that is regaining power and clout by replacing nuclear weapons with oil and gas and substituting greed for fear.
Though the Minsk II initiative exposed Europe's meager political clout, it also confirmed the indispensability of Franco-German cooperation, as well as Germany's changed role within the EU.
Countries with global economic clout have a special responsibility to accept that their policy actions have important spillover effects on other countries.
A Silk Glove for China’s Iron FistNEW DELHI – For years, China has sought to encircle South Asia with a “string of pearls": a network of ports connecting its eastern coast to the Middle East that would boost its strategic clout and maritime access.
Add to that its position as the world’s largest supplier of liquefied natural gas and the holder of one of its largest sovereign-wealth funds, and it becomes clear that Qatar has plenty of room to maneuver – as well as considerable international clout.
Instead, they have followed the path of expedience, their positions depending on the relative clout and stridency of their societies’ Jewish or Arab communities, and on urging from Washington or from the so-called ALBA bloc of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
Meaty diets have created a global obesity problem, including, of all places, in China, whose expanding international clout is accompanied by expanding waistlines at home.
The Kurds – a people without a state – have proven to be reliable fighters against ISIS and want to use their new political and military clout to make progress toward autonomy, or even an independent state.
But only one nation-state, the US, has the clout to deliver this.
Still, an increasingly Euro-skeptic Germany in the heart of the EU could, given its great economic clout, seriously endanger the European integration process.
That means not only increasing the clout of existing institutions – here, reform is a prerequisite – but also establishing new institutions, such as a Global Competition Authority.
And with the financial storm having largely abated, Germany lacks new opportunities to demonstrate its political clout, both within and outside the eurozone.
Denied accommodation in the Bretton Woods institutions (the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) commensurate with its economic clout, China has established its own alternatives, which other countries have flocked to join.
France wields overwhelming political clout in its former African colonies, including veto power over the franc zone’s two central banks.
Yet it is clear that no one has as much clout in Pyongyang as China’s Communist Party bosses.
It most likely will not pursue a narrowly self-interested approach, mainly because to do so would diminish its global stature and clout.
At a stroke, Citi executives demonstrated both their continued political clout in Washington and their continued desire to take on excessive amounts of financial risk (which is what this particular legal change permits).
Though China has tried to increase its financial clout by encouraging the international use of its currency, renminbi-denominated trade still represents just 9% of the global total, compared to the dollar’s 81% share.
Obama and his advisers had hoped that, by creating a new US-centered trading bloc, the TPP would counter China’s clout and preserve American military and economic primacy in the world’s most dynamic region.
The Challenge of Islamic FinanceHONG KONG – With Britain now in talks to sell part of the government’s 82% stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland to Abu Dhabi sovereign-wealth funds, the Islamic world’s growing financial clout is once again on display.
That clout also poses a systemic challenge to the dominant way that finance is now practiced around the world.
All of this enables Venice to fund large public programs and maintain the world’s largest military, deepening its international clout as it leads the way in enforcing global trade rules and securing sea lanes.
Anti-elitism can be fanned by vast individual wealth, because elitism is defined less by financial clout than by education.
While the US remains the region’s leading trade partner, its rising protectionism is allowing China to leverage its economic clout to expand its presence and influence.
The result is that Berlusconi’s supposed allies such as former Minister Gianfranco Micciche and current Governor of Sicily Raffaele Lombardo, are seriously thinking of setting up a “Party of the South” to ensure that Italy’s southern regions have enough clout to withstand the Lega Nord’s onslaught.
If it is to regain its clout, and preserve its treasured social and political cohesion, it must address the longer-term issues of investment, growth, and employment.
The "good offices" approach is effective when the weight of the world is behind it and, put simply, Gambari has not been given the clout he needs.
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