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Four of the world’s ten largest militaries are in Asia, and five Asian countries are full-fledged nuclear powers.
If its pivot to Asia is to be credible, the US will eventually have to agree to be one among a number of great powers in Asia, a co-equal partner with China, Japan, and India in shaping the region’s strategic environment.
He put some local-government powers back into the hands of the central authorities.
And British Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to reduce the powers of EU institutions and to subject the results of his negotiations with the Union’s leaders to a popular referendum by the end of 2017.
If new powers are not given access to the existing global governance structures, they will create structures of their own.
The West violated that agreement in 1999 in Kosovo: NATO powers first attacked Kosovo and Belgrade, in breach of the UN Charter (although they were morally justified to do so, because there was a need to stop the serious atrocities underway); the West then promoted and blessed Kosovo’s secession.
Georgia has taken the path that lambs (small countries) normally choose when facing wolves (major powers), brandishing law as a weapon.
One reason China seems paralyzed in the current crisis is that, among the world's major powers, it is almost alone in having a genuine "two Koreas" policy.
What followed was an era of American preeminence, increased prosperity for many, the emergence of a large number of relatively open societies and political systems, and widespread peace, including considerable cooperation among the major powers.
And just as these two Asian land powers cultivate Kim Jong Il, Washington is seeking talks over missiles with Pyongyang and Tokyo is eager to reestablish diplomatic relations with the North.
Their efforts must be supported and sustained by the other powers with interests in the Koreas.
The trickiest part of this strategy will involve knitting together a critical mass of countries that can uphold liberal values even when great powers will not.
Instead, the major powers will weaponize their interconnections, giving rise to more trade wars, cyber attacks, sanctions regimes, and electoral interference.
Yet, when it comes to the escalating conflict in eastern Ukraine, the relevant external powers – that is, the US, the European Union, and Russia – are not only failing to achieve a cease-fire; they are refusing to pursue a solution that, unlike in the case of Israel and Palestine, is there for the taking.
Such a solution could also incorporate other, less controversial elements, such as additional powers for eastern Ukraine’s regional authorities, which they could exercise in Russian.
Although the future geopolitical behavior of the rising new powers – Brazil, China, and India – remains uncertain, this shift may nonetheless provide an opportunity for the Mediterranean.
Here are a few areas in which Asia – or, more properly, Asians – can contribute to solving some key global challenges:Peace and Security: Asia includes many new naval powers, such as China and India, which could help bolster the security of sea-lanes by creating partnerships with traditional naval powers such as the US.
The word Yalta, too, has assumed a life of its own, serving for years as a symbol of a division of the world by the great powers: of the large and powerful deciding the fate of the small and powerless without asking their advice, of inadmissibly pragmatic concessions or compromises by democratic governments vis-?-vis the overpowering strength of a totalitarian regime.
Lifting the state of emergency that has been in force since 1963 – giving sweeping powers to the regime and its security services – would be both a symbolic and tangible step in the right direction.
These lessons are reflected in North’s assessment of Western Europe’s institutional and economic development, in which he attributed the Industrial Revolution to two key factors: varying belief systems and intense competition between and within the emerging sovereign powers.
No one, however, should mistake Xi’s enhanced powers for a personal dictatorship.
Indeed, President Putin's failure to "reconquer" his home city of St. Petersburg, now controlled by a bitter political opponent of the President, Vladimir Yakovlev, demonstrates the bureaucratic powers that local leaders retain.
What will be the powers, competencies, and resources of the mayors to be elected?
Egypt could not truly set out on a path of democratization without first amending its constitution – to downsize the Pharaonic powers of its president and set limits on his term in office.
If prices remain low, as seems likely, the next decade might well see global trade stagnate, as the trade pattern “rebalances” from emerging economies to the established industrial powers.
The Sino-American DecadeHONG KONG – The California summit between US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping on June 7-8 comes at a time of heightened tension between the world’s two preeminent powers.
The Korean War turned it into a proxy battleground for major powers, causing it to lose two million inhabitants in just three years.
If world powers continue to delay tackling the North Korea threat, they will soon be exposed.
A second line of action is to strengthen the international institutions’ soft powers to aim for more consistent economic policies, especially by systemically important economies.
For now, Germany is satisfied with the status quo, enjoying stable growth and retaining control over domestic economic policy, while the ECB’s limited powers and strict mandate to maintain price stability ease fears of inflation.
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