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In short, there has been a tectonic shift in the geopolitics of energy.
The weight of the water impounded in the dam’s massive reservoir was said to have triggered severe tectonic stresses, or what scientists call reservoir-triggered seismicity.
The Middle East is undergoing a tectonic shift – the Shia awakening.
In a region long inured to impunity among political and economic elites, this amounts to a tectonic shift.
Needless to say, the ability to comprehend change has become indispensable at a time when the world is experiencing tectonic geopolitical shifts.
He and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) represent a tectonic shift in Turkish politics, one with parallels in other Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East.
The two tectonic shifts in the global economy – slower GDP growth and increased emerging-market competition – have created a fault line that runs through Europe.
But this cozy assumption overlooks a tectonic shift in Turkey’s geo-political position.
But these are insufficient bases of resilience, particularly given the tectonic shifts occurring next door, in Iraq and Syria.
With little knowledge of China’s tectonic changes, foreigners have been investing, buying, trading, and extravagantly praising its amazing, but hell-bent, “economic boom.”
The tectonic plates of the Western world have started to slip, and many people have been slow to realize the potential consequences.
And, absent a tectonic shift in growth dynamics and policies, we may well see more of it in the next few years in Europe – specifically, in France, Italy, and Germany.
It is equally clear that Asian states are not yet ready to assume the more meaningful leadership in global affairs that will be necessary to ensure that this tectonic shift can make the world more stable and secure than it has been.
The Middle East Crack-UpJERUSALEM – The horror stories emerging from northern Iraq, as well as the continuing slaughter in Syria’s civil war, point to a tectonic shift in the Middle East.
“It is a tectonic shift to the East with shattering implications,” says Calestous Juma, a Kenyan professor at Harvard University who advises the African Union on technology policy.
A time of tectonic shifts has begun.
But Abe’s government also recognizes that the world’s geopolitical tectonic plates are shifting, and that many in the US are tempted by the siren song of isolationism.
And, while the tectonic shift in the region was triggered by the “Arab Awakening,” its players are not limited to the Arab world or to the confines of the Middle East conflict.
A great Eurasian bloc suddenly appeared in opposition to America’s hegemonic global pretensions, prefiguring a new fluidity in geopolitical relationships, if not a tectonic shift in alignments.
The predicted shift of the Parliament to the left - not of tectonic, but still of tangible proportions - has happened.
But with tectonic shifts looming in the global macroeconomic landscape, this is no time for complacency.
But the “absence of war,” as the British playwright David Hare once called it, suggests that Britain’s political tectonic plates have shifted.
The proliferation of calls for devolution, secession, and independence is but one manifestation of this tectonic shift.
It was a time when the tectonic plates of the financial system seemed to be shifting beneath us.
These are major tectonic shifts in the structure of the global economy, and are fraught with potential dangers.
Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces on Economic AreasSTANFORD – Several years ago, I predicted that there would be a tectonic shift toward devolution, secession, and independence around the world, owing to the failure of political institutions to manage economic, cultural, ethnic, and religious differences.
Because almost all major actors on the international stage are redefining their roles in response to this tectonic shift, Europe must do the same.
Throughout history, tectonic shifts in technology have upended occupational structures and employment.
Indeed, tectonic changes became visible in 2004.
The West’s relations with Russia since the end of the Cold War have resembled the meeting of two tectonic plates, with one progressively forced beneath the other.
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