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A single seat - at the UN, the IMF, or the World Bank - would elevate Europe to the same level as the US and would augment, rather than diminish, its global influence.
They should publicly laud the President's statesmanship for having given the world the most effective instrument against the spread of weapons of mass-destruction, as well as for curbing Iraqi influence in the Middle East and weakening Saddam's regime.
In short, though China’s political system functions in a manner that is far more centralized than outlined in the country’s constitution, it provides an increasingly meaningful set of avenues through which citizens can exercise influence over political life.
Its influence is mediated by many other factors.
They hope to perpetuate their influence by asserting claims of national sovereignty.
Of course, the stakes are too high for Canada, Denmark, and Russia to allow the region’s remoteness and its hostile environment to influence how resolutely they press their claims.
While most policy analysts agree that China’s expanding role in global economic and security affairs will shape the Asia-Pacific region’s strategic environment, no clear consensus has emerged on the form that this influence will take.
America’s central bank has control over the supply of dollars, and currently exerts great influence over interest rates, both for short-term and long-term borrowing.
Should we expect a Yalta Conference 2.0 to recognize Putin’s new de facto sphere of influence?
The two main criticisms – lack of strategic clarity and less emphasis on the classical concepts of power – point to America’s loss of influence, power, and leadership.
But the rapprochement itself is, of course, mainly the work of Ariel Sharon, whose influence is by no means diminished because he is in a coma.
If a central bank has two policy targets, then it needs two instruments: monetary policy to influence aggregate demand, and regulatory policy to limit financial risks.
It’s not that the Kirchners have much global influence.
Since the June 2016 Brexit referendum, Britain has searched in vain for an illusory concept of sovereignty that might prevent the massive loss of international power and influence that awaits it after its departure from the European Union.
After all, with fewer global rules, China will face even fewer obstacles when asserting its growing influence abroad.
As for Europe, while the European Union mediates, in doing so it is also demonstrating the limits of its influence.
Central Europeans must understand that moving to Europe’s periphery will harm their own vital interests, by undermining their ability to influence the future of the continent.
And, as Robert Jervis argued in Perception and Misperception in International Politics, published during the Cold War, the illusions that we create have an enormous influence on decision-making – even becoming a fundamental cause of conflict.
Globalization has fueled ever-widening disparities among its members – just compare Colombia with Afghanistan, or Chile with Sudan – that make it difficult to transform sheer numbers into coherent influence.
But, under other conditions, individuals influence one another in such a way that the crowd becomes a herd, led by a few.
But, for economists who actively engage the public, it is hard to influence hearts and minds by qualifying one’s analysis and hedging one’s prescriptions.
All too often, the path to easy influence is to impugn the other side’s motives and methods, rather than recognizing and challenging an opposing argument’s points.
The protesters of “Occupy Albany” issued a powerful consensus statement recently, which reads in part:“The interests of those who purchase influence are rewarded at the expense of the People, from whom the government’s just power is derived.
We therefore demand true democracy, decoupled from the corrosive influence of concentrated economic power, and we call all who share in this common goal to stand with us and take action toward this end.”
He was beginning to support the idea of Russia becoming a parliamentary, not a presidential, republic and was gaining influence ahead of this year's Duma elections.
All other attempts to shape the political atmosphere and influence events, especially by a powerful oligarch, violate this logic.
Putin feared that the return of oligarchic political influence would bring back the chaos of Yeltsin's rule.
First, local governments influence a large proportion of investment decisions.
Such a maneuver, Lou mused aloud, would be economically painful enough to influence US elections.
The sovereign state is influenced by them (for better and for worse) as much as it is able to influence them.
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