Finally, there is the attractiveness of South Korean culture.

The American model lost its attractiveness in the 2000 s.

American Democrats say that President Bush's policies have squandered America's attractiveness.

As American assets have lost their attractiveness, their prices have dropped.

But it is a mistake to dismiss America's declining attractiveness so lightly.

There is indeed a compelling harmony and symmetry and a logical attractiveness in the report.

In terms of soft power, despite the attractiveness of traditional Russian culture, Russia has little global presence.

Tourism is important, of course, and from that standpoint Europe s diversity is a unique source of attractiveness.

In recent years, both China and India have adopted foreign policies that have increased their attractiveness to others.

Governments should identify tourism niches that are most likely to increase the attractiveness and competitiveness of their destination.

The results also reflected China s declining attractiveness as a base for product assembly, low cost manufacturing, and parts production.

American culture is now prominent, and it contributes to America's attractiveness its soft power in many, but not all, areas.

All these factors had contributed negatively by further reducing the attractiveness and the quality of the utilization of Africa's FDI.

But the Soviets attractiveness as liberators was destroyed by the way they later used their hard power against Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

In this context, looking north is essential if we want to regain our universal attractiveness and defend our democratic comparative advantages.

Corporations have learned how to sell us unhealthy products by appealing to our unconscious desires for status, attractiveness, and social acceptance.

And yet, while bureaucratization of science has fueled concerns about its attractiveness to talented thinkers, we should not be overly pessimistic.

According to many close observers, America s attractiveness is declining in the region where the allure, or soft power, of others has increased.

But the economic and political attractiveness of a cap consists in its ability to raise substantial revenue without eliminating specific tax expenditures.

On this bottom board, the degree of close civilian cooperation is also important, which is affected by a country s attractiveness or soft power.

The maverick Koizumi had the personal attractiveness and ideological appeal needed to galvanize a majority behind his plans for a fair distribution of the pain of reform.

Yet Western policy towards Belarus must be carefully modulated, and it should emphasize Europe s soft power the attractiveness of its social model to an increasing number of Belarusians.

Europe has used the attractiveness of its Union to obtain outcomes it wants, just as the US has acted as though its military pre eminence could solve all problems.

The close bond between Israel and Bush s America can in retrospect be seen as a mixed blessing a special relationship that contributed to the declining attractiveness of both countries.

A country s soft power rests upon the attractiveness of its culture, the appeal of its domestic political and social values, and the style and substance of its foreign policies.

The impressive job by the American military in providing humanitarian relief after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and the South Asian earthquake in 2005 helped restore America s attractiveness.

And, because of the country s comparative lack of soft power social, cultural, and economic attractiveness it stands ready touse the competitive advantages (i.e., its resource wealth) available to it.

First, steel prices on the international market have been more attractive than on the domestic Chinese market (the elimination of the export rebate should reduce the attractiveness of exports).

The thought of France and Germany fighting each other again seems impossible, and the development of the European Union has greatly enhanced Europe s attractiveness and soft power in the world.

Development projects were funded through grants or cheap loans, and these have probably played at least some part in increasing the attractiveness of the Maghreb and the Mashraq to foreign investors.

Indeed, occupying a divided nation is messy, and it is bound to produce episodes like Abu Ghraib and Haditha, which undercut America s attractiveness not just in Iraq, but around the world.

As we help French businesses to expand abroad, we must also work to encourage inward foreign investment. Both are key to a country s commercial attractiveness among the most important dimensions of global competition.

The world already knows of China s success and its attractiveness as a destination for foreign investment, but few outsiders have seen firsthand the steep price the country is paying for its new prosperity.

While both policies must be regarded as successes, over the years the family planning program has contributed to an aging population that may diminish China s attractiveness as a low cost, labor intensive manufacturing hub.

The Iraq War proved costly to American soft power, with the US losing about 30 percentage points of attractiveness on average in Europe, including in countries like Britain, Spain, and Italy, whose governments supported the war.

The longer the US postpones the day of reckoning, the greater the risk to the dollar s global standing as the world s main reserve currency, and to the attractiveness of US government bonds as the true risk free financial benchmark.

They worry that even after undertaking structural reforms to reduce the attractiveness of unemployment benefits and increase the ability of workers to move to jobs and of firms to move to workers, central bankers will continue to insist on tight money.

Korean popular culture has also crossed borders, particularly among younger people in neighboring Asian countries, while the impressive success of the Korean diaspora in the US has further enhanced the attractiveness of the culture and country from which they came.

The Asian Group called for further work in this area, as well as more generally on how to increase the attractiveness of those countries in the region that had so far been marginalized in the overall distribution of FDI flows.

The Asian Group called for further work in this area, as well as more generally work on how to increase the attractiveness of those countries in the region that had so far been marginalized in the overall distribution of FDI flows.

On the supply side, the significant adjustment efforts and costs required to meet the above outlined environmental, quality and food safety requirements for conventional agriculture have increased the attractiveness of going organic for many developing country Governments, producers and exporters.

When we recall the Cold War, it is important to remember that America's strategy of containment combined the deterrent of its hard military power with the attractiveness of its soft cultural power, which eroded confidence and belief in Communism behind the Iron Curtain.

This value should be added to the return that is attributed to various classes of liquid assets in normal times, thereby affecting the relative attractiveness of liquid and illiquid assets and influencing the asset allocation choices made by various classes of investors.

A country s attractiveness or soft power stems partly from its culture and values (where they are attractive to others), but it also grows out of a country s policies when they are seen as legitimate, consultative, and inclusive of the interests of others.

The US invasion of Iraq, a country that was not connected to the 9 11 attacks, squandered that good will, and the attractiveness of the US in Muslim countries like Indonesia plummeted from 75 approval in 2000 to half that level today.