It was this failure that brought Hamas to power.

GENEVA Failure to adapt to climate change, persistent extreme weather, and major systemic financial failure are just three of 50 major risks monitored every year in the World Economic Forum s Global Risks Report.

Obviously, failure to reach a power sharing agreement will prolong political instability.

The cost of this power failure, though difficult to calculate, is surely huge.

However, the failure to arrest the remaining six indictees at large remains a major concern.

Failure discredits only the party or coalition in power, not the entire political system.

This in part arises from a failure to provide the EU with political power.

The region is a major exporter of hydroelectric power.

A major flaw of the report was its failure to give context to the matters discussed.

This failure will make it more difficult to obtain major new commitments on the non proliferation side.

This, and the contemporaneous failure of major pricing and production negotiations between the exporters and the major oil companies both led to the 1973 oil crisis.

Dengism s greatest intellectual failure is its inability to account for the potential of unchecked power to nurture greed and corruption among ruling elites. Its greatest political failure is its resistance to the democratic reforms needed to constrain that power.

The failure to achieve real agrarian reform has been one of the major obstacles to development in Africa.

A major power shift in favor of society has taken place.

But excessive indebtedness and losses on the risky investments that had been made triggered the global financial crisis and led to the failure, or near failure, of many major financial institutions.

Few people are focused on saving NATO from a significant failure in its first major test outside of Europe.

A failure in both would be disastrous even if the major emerging market countries have attained self sustaining growth.

As its hard power ebbs, its soft power, as illustrated by the Copenhagen summit, seems to be very weak. This in part arises from a failure to provide the EU with political power.

Another major deficiency of the MDGs is their failure to recognize human rights as essential to any sustainable development strategy.

Most immediately, Calderón had to address his immediate predecessor s failure to implement any of the major reforms that Mexico needed.

But is soft power enough for one of the world s major emerging countries?

UNCTAD XI had been the first major international meeting on trade since the failure of the WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancún.

A century ago, Britain managed the rise of American power without conflict, but the world s failure to manage the rise of German power led to two devastating world wars.

But major power shifts within Asia are challenging the continent s own peace and stability.

The result was the end of Macedon as a major power in the Mediterranean.

In the US, union failure to represent members interests adequately contributed to a major pension default at the Studebaker Corporation in 1963.

Moreover, the failure of the global financial system comes at a time when power is shifting from West to East.

On the contrary, it is the failure to use soft power effectively that weakens America in the struggle against terrorism.

This approach should favor China s global strategy, which is premised upon Xi s desire to build a new type of major power relationship between China and the US (the Chinese government prefers major power to great power, probably in order to highlight its stated renunciation of hegemonic ambition).

Major shifts in events and power bring about new subjects for discussion and new interpretations.

Russia should be treated as a major power, which means consultations on important global issues.

(This loss of confidence then led to major shifts of power away from the Church.

Vigilance against a resurgence of major Power centrism in certain circles is also in order.

Market Failure and Political Failure

As I argue in my new book The Future of Power, one of the major power shifts of the twenty first century is Asia revival.

The major sources and uses of power in the world today are softer, although not weaker.

Patchy Internet connections are a major hurdle, as are the frequent power outages that Libyans face.

These had the power to ratify the laws of the Major General Council and the Senate.

China s central government has the power to rein in its local chieftains, so its failure to do so in Tibet is puzzling.

In Lebanon, the danger of one community monopolizing power over others is avoided because the Lebanese constitution imposes permanent power sharing arrangements on all major communities.

The third major determinant of which scenario prevails will be American power and how it is used.

The inherently erratic behavior of the major renewable energy technologies presents serious problems for power system planners.

Minority ethnic groups are therefore often able to sway the balance of power between major competing forces.

Failure to do so has proved a major factor in countries relapse into war, because, in the absence of peace, there can be no sustainable development.

Iran, predictably, has refused to back down, which some observers have suggested reflects the failure of the world s major powers to speak with a unified voice.