This enthusiasm for reform marks a paradigm shift.

Today, however, the eurozone s attention has shifted to growth.

Thus, insidiously, the burden of proof is shifted.

Part of this is pure automation.

This year has marked an important turning point in the momentum for change.

And the focus this year has shifted decisively away from it.

But the centrist reformist axis swung into action with pinpoint timing.

At the Yaroslavl meeting with Medvedev, attention shifted to the connection between democracy and modernization.

Increasingly, the focus is turning towards reintegration, including community services.

Indeed, official rhetoric has turned once again to trying to persuade markets to ignore reality.

The US should divert its wasteful military spending to new health financing.

As a result, debt stabilization seems to be an increasingly elusive target.

As integration has turned into disintegration, the role of the European political establishment has also reversed, from spearheading further unification to defending the status quo.

I have no doubt that closer American re engagement helped to nudge Pakistan in the right direction.

Instead, the US Federal Reserve has turned to a second round of quantitative easing.

It is therefore important that EU governments turn their attention to this challenge.

Participants called for a paradigm shift towards a culture and strategy to prevent conflict and build peace.

Unfortunately, America's swing back toward protectionism did not stop there.

If the world s center of gravity shifts to Asia, however, Americans will be woefully unprepared.

Rather than simply looking at project inputs and outputs, the emphasis has turned towards measuring the overall impact of an operation.

As other advanced economies become increasingly services based, the US is reindustrializing.

With the shift of wealth and power from the West to the East, the pressures of globalization will increasingly come from the East.

The hardest challenge will be for economies mired in oligarchic capitalism to accomplish a similar transition.

But, in the last ten years or so, we have become concerned about something else rapid world economic growth.

That could be a turning point, provided it is adequately reinforced with additional steps toward greater integration.

Finally, blockage of the multilateral process will trigger an even more pronounced shift toward bilateral or regional free trade agreements (FTA s). FTA s cannot substitute for multilateral liberalization.

From a model applicable to the minority of the world s population, Western consumer society is becoming the dominant economic model of the world, one to which there is increasingly no alternative.

So, as the world s eyes turn to Africa, we should take the opportunity to showcase the key role that Africa s women are increasingly playing in the continent s success.

They may also have the unintended benefit of shifting a key policy debate in a more productive direction.

There is a deeper level of concern, however, which relates to Japan s fear of being marginalized as the US turns toward a rising China.

In addition to activities supporting the intergovernmental process, the emphasis shifted increasingly towards mandated implementation activities.

In Venezuela UNICEF is promoting the civil registration of all children, which facilitates their admission to school, while in Mexico it is providing support for the construction of adequate school infrastructure in certain indigenous areas.

Such increased accountability will shift government spending toward programs related to people s needs and away from physical structures.

Once that highest goal has been achieved, central banks can turn their attention to trying to keep the economy near full employment.

Instead of moving toward modernization and development, the region would be confirmed as a cockpit for conflict, a threat to itself and to the world beyond.

Should it become a realistic prospect, a decisive approach to Iran would make sense.

Everyone swept up by it felt young again, as though the world had suddenly, mysteriously, euphorically been made new.

Its drug warriors must reevaluate their position and terminate what has become an increasingly senseless and futile struggle.

Yet his position seems curiously lacking in big picture awareness of how the Internet could transform the lives of the very poor.

Today, the world s overwhelming strategic problem is to adjust to a new economic and political geography, in which the weight of the global economy is shifting eastwards and southwards.

But does Turkey s shift of focus southward and toward regional power status come at the expense of the country s EU ambitions?

A dramatic curtailment of state resources may eventually push the government toward modernization, but it might also produce an uglier shift toward harder political crackdown, economic nationalism and an essentially isolationist course.

The need for Obama to address the region s new realities early in his tenure has been underlined by the current financial crisis, which has made abundantly clear that the center of global economic power has shifted toward the East. It is also clear that the West s future role will depend on how America manages this new distribution of power.

These assumptions took a hard hit in the crisis, causing an abrupt shift to far more intrusive regulation.

The role that high oil prices played in the summer of 2008 in tipping the global economy into recession should not be underestimated.