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The British government, after all, has embarked on a path that runs in precisely the opposite direction – reducing the functions of central bodies and repatriating powers to national capitals.
This is the conceit of all great powers.
Now, however, with the era of multilateral trade rounds and system-wide rules behind us, the PTAs are the only game in town, and the templates established by the hegemonic powers in unequal trade treaties with economically weaker countries will increasingly carry the day.
Moreover, Obama has been confronted with significant constraints, including the global economic crisis, domestic political polarization, a hostile Congress, and the rise of emerging powers that need the US but are unwilling to accept its dominance.
Meanwhile, in Mesopotamia and the Levant, a new crop of countries emerged as outside powers redrew the Ottoman map.
Or he may join with China to create a kind of G2 of the world’s largest powers.
Second, the decline in US power and influence relative to China and other rising powers is natural, inevitable, and not a cause for alarm among those long reliant on America’s protection and support.
Third, while rising powers’ ambition for more space and influence is a given, it is not remotely inevitable that this quest must take a military form.
The world’s major powers are far more interdependent financially and in terms of supply chains than they were in 1914 – the year of misguided optimism that pessimists love to cite – and the cumulative horrors of the twentieth century have fundamentally changed the normative environment.
At the same time, we are witnessing the dissolution of the old Middle East created by France and Britain after World War I, when Europe’s two great colonial powers created territorial mandates in Palestine, Syria (including present-day Lebanon), Transjordan, and Iraq.
No amount of machinations by outside powers or internal forces will impose a settlement.
However, like-minded mid-level powers with similar intentions could complement what the UN or the US lacks, effectively generating sufficient clout to stabilize the global security environment.
Japan, Australia, Germany, or Canada might be just such powers.
Moreover, they are non-nuclear powers with no permanent seats in the UN Security Council.
Japan is thus helping to create conditions to allow mid-level powers to act jointly and effectively to provide an essential international “public good.”
However, efforts to promote this kind of cooperation should not be confined to these mid-level powers.
Various approaches may be available for building a coalition of such powers, including the use of the UN and seeking to influence US foreign policy.
To advance such efforts, it may be necessary for mid-level powers such as Japan, Canada, Australia, and Germany to strengthen ties with other like-minded mid-level countries that possess nuclear weapons and hold permanent seats on the UN Security Council, such as the United Kingdom and France, or with smaller nuclear powers without permanent Security Council seats, such as India.
There have been modest moves to increase the European Parliament’s powers, but they have not been recognized sufficiently by the European public to quiet complaints.
When the “European project” was thriving, only a few visionaries saw the need for centralizing more powers.
If this means a special status at the expense of other Middle East powers such as Egypt or the Gulf states, Obama might run into strong opposition from America’s traditional allies in the region.
It became a matter of national pride for a country that had been guafen , "cut up like a melon," by predatory colonial powers, to end national feelings of humiliation by restoring itself to wholeness.
They largely succeeded: Their design kept the region from coming between the two European powers, and it managed to survive for a century.
But as his campaign unfolded, he demonstrated that he possessed the powers to lead – both soft and hard.
When ministers question Darwinism or assert the miraculous powers of the cow, they are not merely offering a choice between a scientific theory and a faith-based explanation.
In another 10 years, India may be in the top echelon of economic powers.
After all, European voters are in no mood to transfer more powers to Brussels.
The Bank of England has argued that there should be no replication of the banking union grant of new powers to the European Central Bank at the expense of national central banks.
Since politicians ask us to entrust them with sweeping powers, it can be argued that we should know as much as possible about their morality.
According to Chinese theorists, the “vital space” of great powers extends far beyond a state’s borders, whereas the “vital space” of weak countries is limited to strategic boundaries that do not always correspond to the borders of their national territory.
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