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With the main global power remaining on the sidelines, however, the inevitable result has been a highly dangerous power vacuum, which Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking to exploit.
Instead, the US allowed a political vacuum to form in the absence of any movement on the part of Israel’s government.
This vacuum has now been filled by the Arab Awakening.
Moreover, the US is gradually disengaging strategically from the greater Middle East, creating a vacuum that China seeks to fill.
First, would even a partial withdrawal of military force create a security vacuum that could be filled by a rival – say, China or Iran?
The reason for this is clear: China’s dependence on Middle East energy imports means that it is almost certain to seek to fill any regional security vacuum.
For with a vacuum on the Left, what are thoday’s major economic issues?
The final pointer of the UK election may partly reflect the vacuum in national leadership that such silence epitomizes.
Four factors, none of them new but each destabilizing on its own, are compounding one another: lack of hope, dangerous governmental policies, a regional power vacuum, and the absence of active external mediation.
What we will have is a power vacuum, marked by chaos.
Instead, China should exercise primary political custodianship of North Korea in the event that a political vacuum emerges.
Likewise, China might oppose "Operation CIS."Until recently, China feared that Russia's withdrawal from the region would create a vacuum that the US would fill.
Tribal feelings – national, ethnic, and religious – are filling the vacuum.
Can Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra fill the regional leadership vacuum?
The ascent of Nahda (Renaissance), the leading Islamist party, is less a reflection of latent ideological support among a newly liberated people than it is a testament to the party’s remarkable ability to fill the post-revolutionary political vacuum.
Disorder, war, and even disease can flood into the vacuum when, as Antonio Gramsci put it in his Prison Notebooks, “the old is dying and the new cannot be born.”
Moreover, such lenders should not operate in a vacuum.
But the United States economy does not exist in a vacuum.
Into this vacuum has stepped President Bush.
After they depart the scene, Palestinian leaders who were born under occupation and spent time in Israeli prisons will most likely fill the vacuum.
In short, there is a vacuum of global leadership just at the moment when it is badly needed.
But, of course, the US does not exist in a vacuum.
Where state institutions or elected officials fail to take action against such violence, these women have filled a vacuum, challenging traditional gender roles in the process.
This cultural vacuum is most evident in the mismatch between the region’s reading habits and the response of its publishing industry.
With the bombing of an air base in western Syria, the Trump administration stepped into a gaping power vacuum in the Middle East.
War and chaos in the Middle East or just a moral or political vacuum will directly affect and upset the security of the EU and all its member states.
That vacuum of legitimate authority created the present crisis, and it must be extirpated.
Whenever Assad has been weakened, Sunni jihadists, including ISIS and al-Nusra Front, have filled the vacuum.
Finally, Great Britain’s decision about its relationship with the EU will not happen in a vacuum.
The ideological vacuum left by the death of Marxist orthodoxy was filled with nationalism.
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