Joseph Nye on global power shifts

Paddy Ashdown The global power shift

Thus they use their power to perpetuate the power imbalance in the ordering of global affairs.

The political power of global megabanks is out of control.

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Copenhagen exposed the demise of Europe not only as a global power, but even as a global arbiter.

The whole world, it seems, views China as the next great global power.

Egypt is not a creation of nineteenth or twentieth century global power games.

America s global military power is undisputed, although it is used with decreasing frequency.

RIGA For decades, people have bemoaned the waning of Europe s global political power.

Such a renewed energy balance would impact the current global balance of power.

Power has also shifted in the global political arena, with the global financial crisis catalysing the emergence of the G 20.

Combine the power of a global ethic with the power of our ability to communicate and organize globally, with the challenges that we now face, most of which are global in their nature.

Combine the power of a global ethic with the power of our ability to communicate and organize globally, with the challenges that we now face, most of which are global in their nature.

What will it mean to wield power in the global information age of the twenty first century? Which resources will produce power?

Ironically, today s decline in American global power may lead to more effective regional cooperation.

The Obama administration committed itself to global leadership through civilian rather than military power.

But multilateralism is a global insurance policy against abuse of power by any state.

But these countries are unable to develop independently and lack a global power alternative.

But its real power stems from the degree to which it reflects America s mood in an era of declining global influence and diminishing expectations regarding the relevance of military power to sustaining US global hegemony.

For India, stability in Pakistan and Afghanistan would ease its rise to global economic power.

In order to escape that fate, existing institutions must adapt to shifting global power dynamics.

Russia should be treated as a major power, which means consultations on important global issues.

The security fostered by America s unchallenged global power has been shown to be an illusion.

The second important miscalculation concerned the likely global reaction to America s exercise of its hegemonic power.

A state becomes a world power when its strategic significance and potential give it global reach.

On the one hand, Brazil continued its successful rise as an emerging power with global aspirations.

Russia is again seeking a role as a global power and is therefore flexing its muscles.

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On balance, then southern Africa clearly stands to benefit economically from China s emergence as a global power.

In terms of soft power, despite the attractiveness of traditional Russian culture, Russia has little global presence.

As I argue in my book The Future of Power, global interdependence involves both sensitivity and vulnerability.

And, like America then, India is not naturally at ease with the notion of exercising global power.

Now, it is laying the groundwork to become a global power in more sophisticated, technology intensive industries.

Today, consumers' global spending power continues to increase, with private consumption expenditures totalling 22.1 trillion in 2004.

Notwithstanding its many setbacks in recent years, the US remains the only power capable of leading a global strategy that consists in balancing soft and hard power.

Today, some interpret the rise in China s share of world output as signifying a fundamental shift in the balance of global power, but without considering military power.

A smoother international distribution of power, even in a global system that is less than fully democratic, would pose fewer temptations to abandon the prudent exercise of power.

America s neo conservatives have wasted a large part of their country s power and moral authority in an unnecessary war in Iraq, willfully weakening the only global Western power.

As I argue in my book The Future of Power, one of the great power shifts of this global information age is the strengthening of non state actors.

China s rapid economic growth, juxtaposed against America s problems in Iraq and Afghanistan, monumental debt, and role in sparking the global financial crisis, have changed global power realities and global perceptions of those realities even more.

The other big global political story is the American presidential election. This is super charged American soft power.

At present, almost any standard measure of the concentration of global economic power would show a declining trend.

But in the post Cold War period, economic growth by itself has contributed to altering global power relations.

Indeed, despite the massive problems that the country is confronting, it could even emerge as the global power.