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For Asia, the most important consequence of the fall of the Berlin Wall was that the collapse of communism produced a shift from the primacy of military power to economic power in shaping the international order.
President Barack Obama’s re-election offers reasonable hope that the US will give some strategic space to China through a policy of mutually accommodating cooperation, rather than insisting on dominance or primacy.
As a result, the Palestinian community in the occupied territories was always subservient to the primacy of the Palestinian Diaspora.
As the primacy of the US in the international arena – and, thus, America’s status as the world’s “indispensable nation” – erodes, other states and even non-state actors are gaining prominence.
But the primacy of bureaucracy over democracy is a core principle that EU institutions will never compromise.
Thus, the primacy of luck as a determinant of wealth means that there is no moral justification for economic inequality.
To achieve this goal he sought to restore high culture to a position of primacy in Russian life, and to put mass media in its (politically) subservient place.
Yet, in recent years, the middle has become less stable, less predictable, and more elusive, and its primacy – in economics, politics, business, asset management, and even sports – has become increasingly unsustainable.
But, in return, it will demand that smaller, less powerful states explicitly recognize China’s primacy (just as in the tributary systems of old).
This remains as true today as it was 50 years ago, despite some weakening of America’s global primacy.
In regions lacking a clear hegemon, such as in Africa and Latin America, regional rivals would compete for primacy, perhaps backed by other regions’ hegemons in proxy contests, much like during the Cold War.
Throughout the country’s economic transformation, the political primacy of the Communist Party of China was never in question.
Despite the almost universal belief by economists in the primacy of incentives, three features of world history demonstrate the dominance of culture.
Is there a plausible story in which, owing to different presidential leadership, America would not have achieved global primacy by the end of the twentieth century?
Given its economic size and favorable geography, structural forces would likely have produced some form of American primacy in the twentieth century.
Nonetheless, leaders’ decisions strongly affected the timing and type of primacy.
Michael Swaine, a seasoned Asian security expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, also doubts the sustainability of American primacy in the Asia-Pacific region in the coming decades.
Those who opposed the actions of the coalition in Iraq usually fall back on the answer that "order" must have primacy over "anarchy".
The country that boasted of its primacy in undermining the Soviet empire chose as president, a mere six years after Solidarity's triumph, the leader of a party that never repudiated its communist roots.
This time, what is being created is a security order for Asia that reflects its newfound primacy in world affairs, though what that order will ultimately look like remains to be determined.
By contrast, the world’s rising powers – Brazil, China, India, and Russia – insist not only on the primacy of their national interests, but, as the failed climate negotiations in Copenhagen last December demonstrated, on sovereign freedom of action as well.
The shift in UK goods exports away from the EU reflects a change in the sources of economic growth, with Asia, in particular, gaining primacy.
In the sixteenth century, control of colonies and gold bullion gave Spain the edge; seventeenth-century Holland profited from trade and finance; eighteenth-century France gained from its larger population and armies; and nineteenth-century British power rested on its industrial primacy and its navy.
Thus, we have moved in a few months from a debate about what sort of Brexit we want, involving a balanced consideration of all the different possibilities, to the primacy of one consideration – controlling immigration – without any real discussion as to why and when Brexit does or does not affect the immigration people care most about.
Noisy assertions of continued primacy are counterproductive.
Indeed, the US is pursuing a strategy of primacy in Asia, not a partnership between equals, and this, together with China’s own internal tensions, is undermining China’s ability to participate productively in regional and global forums.
China understands that, for now, US strategic primacy is an immutable reality.
China is already challenging the US for technological and geopolitical primacy, and flaunting its authoritarian capitalism as an alternative to democracy.
That move was a belated attempt to recognize the primacy of domestic politics, even if investors viewed it, in the words of a Financial Times editor, as “playing with fire.”
The dollar and the pound then shared international primacy in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
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