The grouping could thus become a victim of a new era of great-power rivalry in the region.
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In contrast, Americans in general and the Bush administration in particular tend to see the world in traditional great- power terms.
The second question is about the clash between Russia's economic weakness and its lingering desire to regain great-power status.
The 19th century was notable for two stretches of great-power peace of roughly four decades each, punctuated by major conflicts.
Once all the parties had been safely corralled in Ohio, he unleashed a classic 21-day exercise in lock-up, great-power diplomacy.
By background, she is a hard-edged realist, a believer in the uses of American power and the importance of great-power relations.
Franklin had tried to head off a return to such great-power rivalry by constructing an international order founded on great-power co-operation.
The sort of problems governments increasingly face, they say, will be much less predictable than those associated with old great-power rivalries.
Just as Mr Putin has revealed himself as an insatiable centraliser at home, he is emerging as an incorrigible great-power nationalist abroad.
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President Dmitry Medvedev has gone further, using naval clout in the South Atlantic as proof that Russia is returning to great-power status.
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When the declaration was drafted, the cold war had already begun to blight post-war hopes that international co-operation would prevail over great-power rivalry.
The era of American predominance has shown that there is no better recipe for great-power peace than certainty about who holds the upper hand.
Mali got a shoutout or two, but the role of Africa in the world and in great-power politics slipped away in the night.
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He returned Russia to great-power status largely through bluff.
The United States has benefited as much as any other country from the free exchange of goods, the safety of global sea lanes, the spread of democracy and the great-power stability that have characterized the entire post-World War II era.
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Our national story is often framed in terms of a once-great global power on the wane.
For Democrats in the state, the ultimate humiliation came when the last great Democratic power-broker, the former lieutenant-governor Bob Bullock, who had dominated Texas politics for four decades, threw his support behind Mr Bush.
In the Senate the rules may appear to give him great power--Senators are required to sit completely mute and put in writing any question they have for witnesses so he can read it aloud--but in fact he has no power to decide anything.
The one problem with that observation: The group is from L.A. Which, come to think of it, is a great sign that power-pop fused with punk is thriving here, as well.
Question number one is whether the would-be great power's economy will be rich enough to buy it a military force that can be used far afield, not just in the area immediately around its borders.
Former Assistant Secretary of State Susan Rice, as well as the now-departed-but-likely-to-return Samantha Power-- both apprentice members of the great and the good-- are fondly known on the left for their emphasis on human rights, multilateralism and international institutions-- the black hole of talk and inaction.
The event was intended to mark China's reintegration into the world, and re-emergence as a great power.
As should be clear from a casual perusal of the past 40-odd years of great power politics, the use of terrorist forces is completely banal and unexceptional.
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Owen Bennett-Jones, BBC Islamabad correspondent at the time, recalls that when Mr Sharif was removed from power, many Pakistanis expressed great relief, describing him as corrupt, incompetent and power-hungry.
China's self-image as a responsible great power was also on show, however, with a large new hospital ship, useful for humanitarian missions.
Most peter out, shedding their energy along the way, but a few - about 10% - build power, becoming great, hulking behemoths that smash their way through the Caribbean Islands, and into the United States and Mexico.
The financial regulators in particular, now that Dodd-Frank has given them great power to ration credit and direct it toward the public sector, will be able to deprive the private sector of the fuel it needs to pick up speed and push up interest rates.
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