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But, because an alliance of equals is impossible, a flexible combination of limited partnership and local rivalry seems the most likely course.
Russian activism in the CIS will also bring it into direct rivalry with the EU.
Revolution in a VacuumMADRID – The Cold War is long over, but superpower rivalry is back.
Over the long term, the Saudi-Iranian rivalry will shape the Middle East in much the same way that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict once did.
Today, however, Afghanistan is the scene not only of the War on Terror, but also of longstanding Afghan-Pakistani disputes, the India-Pakistan conflict, domestic struggles in Pakistan, US-Iranian antagonism, Russian concerns about NATO, Sunni-Shia rivalry, and struggles over regional energy infrastructure.
Only rivalry with another superpower can generate these.
After all, the era of superpower rivalry and hence of superpowers is over.
Despite his self-satisfied declarations that he knows more about ISIS than America’s generals do, he is utterly oblivious to the complex dynamics of today’s institutional fragility, creeping sectarianism, and proxy wars in the Middle East, fueled by the rivalry among regional and global powers.
Sri Lanka, almost since independence in 1948, has been racked by acrimonious rivalry between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils, who make up 12% of today’s 21.3-million population.
Now the country is being divided by the political rivalry between two Sinhalese war idols, each of whom wants to be remembered as the true leader who crushed the Tamil Tiger guerrillas.
The Shia-Sunni divide has existed from the dawn of Islam, but the geographical and ethnic isolation of non-Arab Shiite Iran, together with Sunni Arab countries’ dominance of their Shia minorities, mostly kept this rivalry in the background.
The US-Soviet rivalry of the Cold War era was special in that relations between those two countries shaped the fate of the world until the USSR imploded.
There is a session entitled "21st century economics: beyond capitalism and communism" -- as if that were still a live rivalry.
In addition to structural and cyclical risks, China must address the “gray rhino” (highly likely, but often ignored) strategic risks arising from the intensifying Sino-American geopolitical rivalry.
The Dangers of MilitarizationMUNICH – Multipolarity is back, and with it strategic rivalry among the great powers.
While this rivalry will have a military component, as evidenced by China’s enormous military buildup, it will manifest itself primarily in terms of economic, political, and normative spheres of influence.
During the US-Belgium match, emails flew fast and thick across the family network, with lots of friendly rivalry.
As changes in the job market break down the middle class, a new era of class rivalry could be unleashed (if it has not been already).
The composite dialogue was put on hold, with both sides unable to cast off the heavy burden of decades of hostility and intense rivalry.
The EU appears to have decided that the world will be one of Great Power rivalry, and that this requires a power-politics approach to global governance.
After the ascension in China of Xi Jinping, regarded by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) as its own man, Japan seems set to swing to the right in its impending election – an outcome likely to fuel nationalist passion on both sides of the Sino-Japanese rivalry.
The relationship with Russia is placed somewhere between partnership and renewed rivalry, but Russia is not really seen as a strategic challenge.
The civil war in Syria, meanwhile, has inflamed the Sunni-Shia fault line that traverses the entire region, and that defines, for example, the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
A better description of today’s bilateral relationship is “cooperative rivalry.”
Now, since 2017, the US National Security Strategy focuses on great power rivalry, with China and Russia designated as America’s main adversaries.
There is another dimension, however, that makes this fourth phase a “cooperative rivalry” rather than a Cold War.
The key question is whether the US is capable of thinking in terms of a “cooperative rivalry.”
That parliament will also be headed by the man Khatami defeated, Nateq-Nouri, who may continue the rivalry until a second presidential showdown in 2001.
Third, the US is unsure that a rules-based system offers the best framework to manage its rivalry with China.
For the West, there is a silver lining in this nationalist rivalry: neither China nor Japan is a rogue state, and, so long as their quarrels do not lead to the use of unconventional weapons, we may treat the friction between them as an internal Asian quarrel.
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