Emerging powers have the potential to fill this need.

We need to integrate today s emerging powers into a new system of global governance.

Meanwhile, the emerging powers continue to lean toward bilateralism and are aligning themselves with other countries.

What unites emerging powers today is more their denial of international responsibilities than their joint diplomatic efforts.

For there are other powers, both emerging and established, with global foreign policies of their own India, Indonesia, Japan.

In the emerging struggle between the region s Shia and Sunni powers, the old Middle East conflict has become a sideshow.

And what of the emerging powers? China has taken huge advantage of the global marketplace created above all by the US.

Moreover, hopes for mitigating or, indeed, overcoming the global economic crisis rest exclusively with the emerging economic powers, first and foremost China.

Today, the hopes of the world economy rest with the emerging powers in east and south Asia, led by China and India.

Welcome to the twenty first century. Europeans have to adjust to it, rise to its challenges, and confront competition from the emerging powers.

The West the United States and Europe are in relative decline, while the emerging Asian and Latin American powers will be among the winners.

This requires further development and deepening of strategic relations with emerging powers, such as China, India, and Brazil, as well as with regional organizations.

The world s richest countries (the G7) turned to the emerging powers within the G20 to help coordinate a response to the global financial slowdown.

Likewise, the US has no real interest in revitalizing multilateral trade negotiations, because bilateralism is much more effective in extracting concessions from emerging powers.

Emerging powers have the potential to fill this need. The question is what China, India, Brazil, and others are prepared to do with their growing strength.

The country s backwardness vis à vis not only the West, but also some of the emerging powers drives home the need to modernize Russia s technological base.

With emerging regional powers increasingly challenging the capacity of the Security Council s permanent members to shape events in the Middle East, there is no time to waste.

It is past time for these modest changes, because the Asia Pacific region's many fault lines affect the interests of the world's great and emerging powers in fundamental ways.

Today, the world seems to be entering a period when, if not a hundred, at least a dozen varieties of Weltpolitik are being pursued by great and emerging powers alike.

It would re establish and modernize the norms of behavior that both the US and Europe would want all countries notably, emerging powers like China to respect in the future.

Some of these powers are still emerging economies. Politically, however, most of them have crossed the threshold that has long limited their access to the kitchen of international decision making.

As India s economic boom has transformed it from a global laggard into one of the world s key emerging powers, the new generation of Indians finally arrived in business, science, and politics.

The Northern industrial world was not yet ready to recognize the new weight of the emerging powers and the need to strike a new balance between North and South, East and West.

None of the emerging powers has even begun to use its growing political and economic clout to advance truly global ambitions or to take on responsibilities that Washington can no longer afford.

Not a few policymakers in the US and in Europe have reacted with astonishment, or even annoyance, to these emerging democratic powers attempts to pursue their own agendas on the world stage.

Turmoil in Arab societies is bound to persist for years to come, and emerging regional and world powers can be expected to exploit the international order s fragmentation to advance their interests in the region.

Unless it modernizes its economy and society, Russia can forget its claim to status as a world power in the twenty first century and will continue to fall behind both old and newly emerging powers.

This recognition raised expectations for the G 20 and granted it the prestige that it deserved it is the only forum in which world powers and emerging countries sit as equals at the same table.

Chinese elites are convinced that time is working in their favor, and that it is only natural that China should regain its rank amongst the world leading powers, perhaps even emerging on top one day.

The EU partly shares America s strategic objective here, because it, too, has grievances against emerging powers in terms of market access, compliance with intellectual property rights, access to government procurement, and subsidies to state companies.

On a panel entitled The Rising Powers and Global Governance, Patriota referred to the energy discussion and noted that the rising powers should remember that the established powers are not sinking powers.

Moreover, Obama has been confronted with significant constraints, including the global economic crisis, domestic political polarization, a hostile Congress, and the rise of emerging powers that need the US but are unwilling to accept its dominance.

In today s global age, with the rise of emerging powers and the relative decline of the West, the only Europe that will be taken seriously is a Europe that can speak and be seen as one.

The big brands are some of the most important powers, powerful powers, in this country.

Thus, governments are invested with unique powers, especially the powers of policing and judicial control.

Once the current global crisis is over, nothing will ever be the same again. The West the United States and Europe are in relative decline, while the emerging Asian and Latin American powers will be among the winners.

Nor is there any plan on offer from other emerging powers, though in time India may show growing alarm about China s muscle flexing, and Brazil may question whether it has really been wise to cosset Venezuela and Cuba.

US dominance is clearly on the wane, but a multipolar order implies that several emerging powers hold competing views about how the world should be run, and that they are prepared to act to advance their global agendas.

For the Unites States, the European Union, Japan, and other members of the Old West, the good news is that most of the emerging powers that are positioning themselves for a more active global role are also democracies.

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