Momentous, sure but China is not yet a superpower.

They argue that a dominant economic power soon becomes a dominant military power, forgetting that the United States was the world s largest economy for 70 years before it became a military superpower.

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

Even in the days of the Shah, the Kingdom feared that a strong Iran might become the dominant regional power.

China might itself wish to be a major force in a multi polar world, but has been plagued by its lack of overall strength.

Rows over product safety and intellectual piracy could all too easily fuel calls for tough new trade limits.

When wealth turns into unchecked power, something must be done to restrict it.

Devoid of its Syrian alliance and estranged from Turkey, Iran would become an isolated revolutionary power whose fanatical brand of Islam is repellent to most Arab societies.

As a major driving force of policy and economic change, this process has had significant impacts on most sectors in countries undergoing decentralization.

Tadpoles become frogs.

Europe Turns Right

Yet without the legitimacy derived from the Universal Declaration and its role in promoting compliance, the nongovernmental human rights movement could not have developed into a global force.

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The question is not whether China rises to great power status peacefully, but whether it intends to remain peaceful when it gets there.

Networks based on strong ties produce the power of loyalty, but may become cliques that re circulate conventional wisdom. They may succumb to group think.

Thailand Turns Banana Republic

Transatlantic Trade Goes Global

Then the resource curse can be turned into a blessing.

Within the G 20, only two states China and Saudi Arabia explicitly do not want to be liberal democracies, while a third, Russia, has developed into an autocracy with a democratic façade.

From here, then, all that is required to become a nuclear power are a few small technical steps and political leaders decision to take them.

Perubahan Zat zat Aman menjadi Berbahaya

Conventional wisdom may finally be catching up with him.

Is China the New World Bank?

This way, minorities become easily manipulated majorities.

Will China s Capitalist Revolution Turn Democratic

It needs to become a political initiative.

But recent events do spell the end of one version of European integration the vision of an ever closer union producing a federal country that would become a new superpower.

Today s darling currency can be tomorrow s dog.

Can Egypt Become a True Democracy?

Isn't it logical for the BOO to become a YAAY?

Puerto Ricans were basically for statehood.

The emergency phase is rapidly shifting to recovery and rehabilitation.

It is often forgotten that US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld emerged from a comfortable retirement to reorganize the American military into a smaller, more agile force, using some of these same insights.

If too loose, a rule is merely ornamental.

Regardless how loud you scream Oo oo! , you won't turn into a wolf.

In this sense, power becomes a positive sum game.

Russia s interests are by necessity becoming global.

First, Afghanistan must not become a safe haven for terrorists.

But cold realities do not necessarily have to turn into hot combat.

In prostate cancer, the cells of these prostate glands mutate into cancer cells.

Operations are now moving from relief to recovery efforts.

As China Turns

An economically successful China is more likely to be stable and geopolitically constructive a China beset by serious economic problems would be far less so, and, as the first ever developing economy to become a global power, could even become a source of systemic risk.

All the green Latin American countries are moving towards smaller families.

As you can see here, they collapse from a three dimensional formation into planar formation.