Great Power

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But a "Libya" isn't quite the same story in Vietnam as in the U.S. America's great-power status obliges that the center of concern is "the U.S. response." ❋ Daniel Henninger (2011)

Second, China wants to get into the great-power maritime game by operating ports throughout the Indian Ocean. ❋ Dan Blumenthal (2011)

In bestowing the honor on a prominent dissident, the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo has issued an explicit challenge, calling on China to respect political rights as it rises toward economic great-power status. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is why the downgraded terrorism as a priority when they took office, in order to focus more on great-power jousting with China and Russia. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the remarkable developments of the post-World War II world is the decline of great-power conflict. ❋ John Yoo (2012)

Making such a world safe for democracy required more than the comforting counsels of isolation, and more than taking the inherited international order as a given and conducting the business of great-power diplomacy as usual. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ms. Schiff shows Cleopatra as an astute ruler of a wealthy kingdom, who skillfully played a game of great-power diplomacy against the terrifying backdrop of Roman civil war. ❋ Josiah Ober (2011)

First, Beijing sees Islamabad as a way to distract India from its great-power aspirations. ❋ Dan Blumenthal (2011)

The 19th century was notable for two stretches of great-power peace of roughly four decades each, punctuated by major conflicts. ❋ Robert Kagan (2012)

In a genuinely post-American world, the balance would shift toward the great-power autocracies. ❋ Robert Kagan (2012)

During the Cold War, Pakistan sought a countervailing great-power ally against India's links to the Soviet Union. ❋ John Bolton (2011)

Appeasement, World War II and the transfer of power in India meant that Britain had slipped from great-power status—where Churchill could meet Stalin and Roosevelt on equal terms at Tehran and Yalta—to the position of a second-division power teetering on bankruptcy. ❋ Unknown (2012)

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. ❋ Robert Kagan (2012)

This raises an awkward question about India's quest for great-power status. ❋ Sadanand Dhume (2011)

Participating in enduring rivalries or taking part in more frequent militarized disputes strongly increase the chances a state will pursue nuclear arms, but credible support from a great-power ally dampens the temptation ... [and] domestic factors, such as more externally oriented economic policies, reduce the likelihood of proliferation (Singh & Way, 2004, p. 861). ❋ Unknown (2010)

The erosion of support for a unified Europe is infecting even Germany, whose obsession with banishing the national rivalries that long subjected the continent to great-power wars once made it the engine of integration. ❋ Charles Kupchan (2010)

In real life, however, Afghanistan is as Richard Nixon put it in The Real War, "has long been a cockpit of great-power intrigue for the same reason that it used to be called the turnstile of Asia's fate". ❋ Unknown (2010)

That view animated President Obama's disastrous "strategic reassurance" policy of his first year, in which Washington reassured Beijing that America would not contest its rise to great-power status. ❋ Daniel Blumenthal (2010)

Remember that great-power war -- which killed roughly a hundred million people in the first half of the 20th Century -- stopped happening when people developed nukes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Remeber [peter] that [with great power comes great responsibility]. ❋ Pizzzatime (2017)

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