For them, the key to international power was political power, and the central attribute of political power was a morally informed leadership.

Leadership entails more than the possession of enormous economic and military power.

But different networks provide new forms of power, and require different styles of leadership.

When the exercise of hard power undercuts soft power, it makes leadership more difficult as Bush found out after the invasion of Iraq.

When the exercise of hard power undercuts soft power, leadership becomes more difficult as President Bush found out after the invasion of Iraq.

In other words, the Internet age requires new styles of leadership in which attractive soft power must supplement the traditional hard power of command.

Regional organizations are still unable to solve regional problems without great power leadership.

Barack Obama understands this networked dimension of leadership and the importance of the soft power of attraction.

The two main criticisms lack of strategic clarity and less emphasis on the classical concepts of power point to America s loss of influence, power, and leadership.

The Obama administration committed itself to global leadership through civilian rather than military power.

Members of this generation sought a strong Arab leadership that would create a balance of power with Israel.

The role of heroic leadership in war leads to overemphasis of command and control and hard military power.

New centers of power and leadership are emerging in Asia, Latin America and across the newly developed world.

Specifically, it requires leadership by a country with the power of the purse and the willingness to use it.

In truth, today, we also face a crisis of a different sort the challenge of global leadership. New centers of power and leadership are emerging in Asia, Latin America and across the newly developed world.

Specifically, it requires leadership by a country with the power of the purse and the willingness to use it. The problem in the interwar period, as Kindleberger recounts it, was the reluctance of the leading power, the US, to provide the leadership and financial wherewithal to resolve the crisis.

After all, genuine leadership cannot come from raw power, but only from other states consent or tacit acceptance.

As the dominant power in the world, America has a unique responsibility to provide leadership in international cooperation.

Under Khamenei s leadership, an unholy trinity of nouveau riche Revolutionary Guardsmen, hard line clergymen, and indoctrinated Basij militiamen increasingly wield power.

Whether this event heralds the decline of regional power broker influence or merely a change in leadership remains to be seen.

Under a North Korean collective leadership dominated by the military, the power of the country s economic bureaucrats will be marginal, at best.

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

After all, genuine leadership cannot come from raw power, but only from other states consent or tacit acceptance. If leadership could be built on brute force, schoolyard bullies would be class presidents.

Servant leadership is both a leadership philosophy and set of leadership practices.

The great leadership theorist James McGregor Burns once argued that those who rely on coercion are not leaders, but mere wielders of power.

We are convinced that the Palestinian leadership should continue its efforts to reform its power structures, and firmly counter any manifestations of terrorism.

They enjoy closed shop hiring and firing prerogatives, leadership elections by acclamation, mandatory dues without transparency, and immense political power.

Nevertheless, the US will remain the most influential external actor in the Middle East, for its failure is one of leadership, not of actual power.

Recently, many observers argued that America s gridlocked political system would prevent the country from translating its abundant power resources into leadership.

For a country whose global leadership depends as much on its soft power as on its military might, that is dynamite.

The government, headed by the prime minister, thus represents the political leadership of the country and makes decisions in the name of the whole executive power.

The century ahead will not be a struggle between China and the US for global leadership. This is not a balance of power gladiatorial contest.

Only leadership by a determined great power, prepared to sacrifice its particular national interests in order to break the resulting impasse, might conceivably have saved the meeting. But such leadership was as unlikely then as it is now.

But social media can also be used effectively to demobilize people, by reducing the chasm between the psychology and power of political leadership and that of the masses.

With the exception of the peaceful transition of world leadership from Britain to the US after World War I, such global power shifts have always involved armed conflict.

Instead of a simple rotation of elites in power, perhaps what occurred during his time in office was the advent of political leadership that looks, talks, worships, and loves like the people of the country leadership that identifies with and benefits the millions of Venezuelans who previously were marginalized.

The government pitted the conflict as a Shia population trying to wrestle power from a Sunni leadership, a storyline often echoed in international media.

Leadership theorists speak of shared leadership and distributed leadership, and suggest images of leaders in the center of a circle rather than atop a hierarchy.

Finally, Xi s power base is far broader than that of his two predecessors, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, both of whom had shaky transitions in the first years of their leadership.

And now we're in this new model of leadership, where the way we make change is not by using money or power to lever a system, but by leading.

China's leadership plays up this revolutionary commitment, for it helps generate nationalist sentiment, one of the few things (besides strong economic performance) that legitimizes the Communist monopoly on power.

Europe s Crisis of Leadership

Leadership . In the end, all presidential elections come down to the intangibles of leadership.

But China has become a great power, with all the obligations for maintaining world order that go with it, whether or not the leadership acknowledges it.

The economic turnaround began under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, who had survived Mao s purges to follow in his footsteps and become the architect of China s rise as a world power.