Has Economic Power Replaced Military Might?

As the efficacy of military power is reduced, so the importance of economic power grows.

It is interesting to note that the soothing strength here is an economic strength, the ECCAS (Economic Community of Central African States).

Economic leverage should be applied as well.

Economic resources can produce soft power behavior as well as hard military power.

China s massive arms build up shows that economic power without military power is only a temporary phenomenon.

CAMBRIDGE The world of traditional power politics was typically about whose military or economy would win.

But the balance of economic power between the two is changing, and fast.

Turin is ranked third in Italy, after Milan and Rome, for economic strength.

OIOS observed that the absence of an ECA wide, real time, web based communications platform drastically impairs the subregional outreach of the subregional offices, thereby compromising the overall impact of ECA.

While military power remains important, it is a mistake for any country to discount the role of economic power and soft power.

Economic links are historically strong and growing.

Power in a network flows from connectedness, or what network theorists call centrality.

Socio cultural and economic reality of the students (economic difficulties, initiation rites, taboos, religious practices, expansion of the school network).

This was viewed as powerful evidence of their new economic might.

The National Population Action Plan for 2002 to 2006 aimed to increase women's economic power.

It is wrong to apply the weight of economic power to pressure developing countries for political purposes.

In The Influence of Sea Power upon History, published in 1890, Mahan argued that maritime power and economic development were deeply intertwined.

There are balancers the U.S., Europe, China, Japan can balance each other.

CAMBRIDGE The driving force of Europe s economic policy is the European project of political integration.

Germans made up a third of the country's population, and the three duchies were behind a half of Denmark's economic power.

His Great Russia policy requires economic strength, and therefore successful modernization of the country.

Given China s rising economic and military power, this was a smart decision.

The United States, an Atlantic power, was fully integrated into the region s economic and security arrangements.

America has become the default power , because China, the most likely challenger, is, by its own admission, a long way from economic or military parity with the US.

First, investments in health provide an important safety net against poverty traps, especially in times of economic upheaval.

The Model Regulations and the GHS are available online in all languages on the web site of the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE).5

The Ambassadors' Network was launched jointly by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment and the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

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

The more economic power China has amassed, the greater its ambition to alter the territorial status quo has become.

The rise of nuclear power in Europe paralleled its post war economic prowess.

Under Wolfowitz, the World Bank failed to introduce any serious governance reforms to reflect the rising economic power of Asia.

Now this area is the economic driving force behind central Zeeland, generating many thousands of jobs.

Europe today does not lack economic strength, but rather the political will to act in unison.

Economic resources are increasingly important in this century, but it would be a mistake to write off the role of military power.

China and India gained considerable economic power, and close neighbors in previously isolated communist states were rapidly integrated in the European economy.

Global attention has been focused on weighing the three candidates strengths and qualifications, particularly their economic and financial credentials.

This deep social and intellectual transformation underway in Asia promises to catapult it from economic power to global leadership.

MILAN Markets and capitalist incentives have great strengths in promoting economic efficiency, growth, and innovation.

The United Kingdom was the world s dominant economic power from the rise of industrialization in the early nineteenth century.

By not keeping its promises to allow peaceful demonstrations and free Internet access, China undercut its soft power gains.

Conducting a research in cooperation with the Network of Elected Women in Local Authorities on The female force in Local Authorities Women Elected all over Greece .

But, without Mercosur s economic muscle, the Pacific Alliance countries would be unable to power Latin America s rise to global prominence.

Rising economic and military power is emboldening China s government to pursue a more muscular foreign policy.

Their economic potency, when it exists, rests on the strength of individual leaders, or on favorable but temporary circumstances.