And the basic message is that the Western powers do not care about civilian deaths, so those people who live in areas and support governments that work with Western powers are fair game.

China was already accustomed to rapacious Western powers squabbling over its riches, but had remained self confident in the knowledge of these powers irrelevance.

As de Gaulle wished, the French president has powers without equal in any other Western democracy.

Before the Western powers, Koo demanded that Germany's concessions on Shandong to be returned to China.

The long and hard conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have made Western powers wary of foreign intervention.

From the Chinese point of view, Russia was a formidable European power, one feared by other Western powers.

Western powers have always been champions of human rights and self determination within the bounds of international law.

Third, the Western powers now lack the domestic political consensus and financial resources to advance an international agenda.

And Western powers would need to be sure that their weapons would not fall into potentially unfriendly hands.

It called for the end of warlord rules and the abolition of all unequal treaties with the Western powers.

Turkey s government was no better at anticipating the changes in the Arab world than were local regimes and Western powers.

Such paranoia is widespread in Asia, where almost every country was at the mercy of Western powers for several hundred years.

Turkey abruptly shifted its stance on Syria, and aligned its position with that of the major Western powers, for two reasons.

The Western powers in Germany, on the other hand, pursued, after a short period of non fraternisation, a policy of controlled empowerment.

On the contrary, the real problem is that, for all their dabbling, the Western powers seem capable of neither war nor dialogue.

By the 1970 s, however, the IMF and Western powers began to dismantle the theory and practice of regulating global capital flows.

German plans for further eastward expansion, as well as the lack of resolve from Western powers to oppose it, became more apparent.

After Chiang Kai shek declared a new national government in 1927, the western powers quickly offered diplomatic recognition, arousing anxiety in Japan.

Despite American support and the ostensible spirit of self determination, the Western powers refused his claims, transferring the German concessions to Japan instead.

While the Western powers have embraced ever harsher sanctions, Russia and China view Iran as a tool in their global competition with the US.

Iran has even proposed regional and multinational participation in its uranium enrichment facilities only to be met by resounding silence from the Western powers.

The Chinese remember all too painfully the unequal treaties imposed by the Western powers on China and Japan in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Global problems are no longer solved, crises managed, or global rules defined, let alone implemented, the old fashioned way, by a few, mostly Western, powers.

This situation is an injustice of vast proportions, reminiscent of and arguably much worse than the now repudiated colonialism of the Western powers in the nineteenth century.

Rampant corruption, rising social unrest, and the inability to resist modern Western powers ultimately caused the dynasty, and the world s longest lasting bureaucracy, to crumble in 1912.

Despite this huge concentration of powers in the presidency, or perhaps because of it, the Fifth Republic has failed to perform better than more democratic Western regimes.

In the short term, Iraq's relations with Western and Far Eastern economic powers are determined by debt forgiveness and reconstruction assistance, which have come from many quarters.

It briefly discusses the Ming (page 4) and Muslim worlds (page 9) of the time and the rise of the western powers relative to them (page 16).

Arms sales to Taiwan, Tibetan activism, and color revolutions of various kinds are all sponsored by the US and other Western powers, and are aimed at weakening China.

But it would be a mistake to assume that the reemergence of so called XXL powers like China and India will simply bring a continuation of Western traditions.

The Cilicians appear as Khilikku in Assyrian inscriptions, and in the early part of the first millennium BC were one of the four chief powers of western Asia.

Of course, the Western powers must be applauded for their efforts, with the support of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, to prevent a slaughter of Libya s civilian population.

Europeans and Americans have learned and China, Russia, and others have learned from Western experience that external powers cannot successfully engineer political arrangements or regional order in the Middle East.

The United Nations must protect the territorial integrity and natural resources of Western Sahara, a territory that multinational companies and major Powers coveted because of its natural riches, particularly oil.

There may be things that Western powers can do to alleviate the suffering, by offering aid to refugees, for example, or use the latest technology to keep lines of information open.

Khamenei can show the oppressed 2009 victims that he is a wise and good leader. The Leader also aims to show Western powers that he is the one who is in charge.

In the last years of the increasingly unstable Weimar Republic, as democracy was fraying, German governments started to use their opponents radicalism in an effort to extract security concessions from the Western powers.

Indeed, the Egyptian and Saudi attitude contrasts starkly with that of two Western powers with extensive influence in Lebanon, the United States and France, which support the UN inquiry wherever it might go.

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.

After the popular upheaval that ousted President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali from power, the peril of supporting Arab autocrats in exchange for flimsy stability should have once again become apparent to Western powers.

Between the fall of the first Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the rise of his nephew in the Italian campaign of 1859, the powers had maintained peace in western Europe.

Throughout southern Africa, lingering resentments associated with colonization fuel distrust of the major Western powers, which continue to control the key institutions so determinative of the region s future, notably the IMF and the World Bank.

TEL AVIV The failure of the Obama administration, its Western allies, and several Middle East regional powers to take bolder action to stop the carnage in Syria is often explained by their fear of anarchy.

A group of 44 married women of western New York wrote to the Assembly in March 1848, saying your Declaration of Independence declares, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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