It is fragmented, peaceful, and normative in a world of hard power, but part of the world is not about military power.

And it was a world of, as I say, not local power, but now central power.

Military power remains important because it structures world politics.

National greatness for a world power always arises from its ability to shape the world.

Military power, which some call the ultimate form of power in world politics, requires a thriving economy.

In an information based world of cyber insecurity, power diffusion may be a greater threat than power transition.

In an information based world of cyber insecurity, power diffusion may be a greater threat than power transition.

In today s world, the distribution of power varies with the context.

The world is discovering capitalism and its power to transform economies.

The emergence of a new world power is a dangerous process.

Security Council reform is not about any country's prestige or power, but about transforming the balance of power in the world.

In the past, it was assumed that military power dominated most issues, but in today s world, the contexts of power differ greatly.

India ranks fifth in the world in total production of wind power and third in terms of wind power added in 2008.

In this world, networks and connectedness become an important source of relevant power.

Many other countries, mainly in the developing world, are considering introducing nuclear power.

The whole world, it seems, views China as the next great global power.

The result is a world in which power is increasingly distributed rather than concentrated.

Twice it has led to world war in which the emergent power was defeated.

Indeed, some extreme Sunnis in the Arab world consider Shia power a mortal threat.

On the contrary, it would make Europe a more influential and capable world power.

The lesson is clear The muscle flexing rise of a world power can strengthen the strategic relevance and role of a power in relative decline.

Poll after poll confirms that America s soft power has declined, particularly in the Islamic world.

MADRID It is a mantra increasingly heard around the world US power is in decline.

For example, an emerging power such as Brazil wants more respect on the world stage.

Indeed, of the more than 200 countries in the world, only 30 use nuclear power.

In 2011 the world has learned more about the transformative power of online citizen media.

To show nationally and internationally that the popular power does not want the World Cup!

The Security Council must be broadly representative of the realities of power in today's world.

Not since Japan rose to world power status during the Meiji emperor s reign in the second half of the nineteenth century has another non Western power emerged with such potential to alter the world order as China today.

Geopolitics has a similar law whenever the world sees a new emerging power, the world s greatest existing power tries, directly or indirectly, to block its rise.

But what will this world look like? We can foresee the power that will shape its geopolitics, but what values will underlie the exercise of that power?

He has antagonized the world more than any other American president before him, seriously damaging America s soft power by inefficient and excessive use of its hard power.

But what will this world look like? We can foresee the power that will shape its geopolitics, but what values will underlie the exercise of that power?

Today, some interpret the rise in China s share of world output as signifying a fundamental shift in the balance of global power, but without considering military power.

In 2010 Spain became the solar power world leader when it overtook the United States with a massive power station plant called La Florida, near Alvarado, Badajoz.

A state becomes a world power when its strategic significance and potential give it global reach.

CAMBRIDGE At this year s World Economic Forum in Davos, the buzz was about Asia s growing power.

But whether economic or military resources produce more power in today s world depends on the context.

The world is poised to undergo one of the most dramatic power shifts in human history.

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

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

Military power will not have the utility for states that it had in the nineteenth century, but it will remain a crucial component of power in world politics.

Last year, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, asked Secretary of State Colin Powell why the United States seemed to focus only on its hard power rather than its soft power. Secretary Powell replied that the US had used hard power to win World War II, but he continued What followed immediately after hard power?

More importantly, rallying the world solely against Russia would mean taking Russia s great power pretensions too seriously.

Such information gives you power primarily in a secretive, opaque world where access to information is limited.