Today, however, the West and Asia remain mutually dependent.

Power arises from asymmetries in interdependence.

The simple fact is that with interconnectedness comes interdependence.

When interdependence is balanced, it does not constitute a source of power.

Tropical rainforests arose, sparking new layers of interdependence.

And we are going to see how this pattern of interconnection, eventually yields to increasing inter dependents between the parts of the world.

Today, China and the US are highly interdependent economically, but many analysts misunderstand the implications of this for power politics. True, China could bring the US to its knees by threatening to sell its dollar holdings.

Each episode in the current crisis illustrates the fragility caused by this interdependence.

During the Cold War, the global strategic interdependence between the United States and the Soviet Union was acute and well recognized.

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But structures designed to connect, rather than divide mutually dependent circles, rather than isolating triangles.

The degree of interdependence among countries is increasing, and the global nature of our problems is inherent.

Increased interdependence would make conflict unthinkable.

A world of much greater transparency and interdependency creates new responsibilities for the rich.

Even as Asia is becoming more interdependent economically, it is becoming more politically divided.

A moment of truth is looming for both sides of this co dependent, and ultimately dysfunctional, economic relationship.

As Robert Wright has emphasized, as people become increasingly inter dependent, the scope of moral concern expands accordingly.

When China buys US Treasury bills, who depends on whom? Exchange generates interdependence.

We cannot continue to pursue strategies that ignore our common exposure to global risks, and the resulting environment of mutual dependence.

The eurozone s creeping fragmentation is primarily the result of the mutual dependence of banks and governments.

Then there is military globalization, consisting of networks of interdependence in which force, or the threat of force, is employed.

Allies of convenience during the second half of the Cold War, the US and China emerged from it as partners tied by interdependence.

This issue is much more acute in developed than in developing countries, though interdependence makes it, to some extent, a common problem.

China s seemingly open ended purchases of US government debt are at the heart of a web of codependency that binds the two economies.

Codependency was never a sustainable strategy for either side. China just happens to have understood this first.

We are in the process of learning how to manage growing policy interdependence without much policy coordination.

This crisis has shown that economic interdependence has grown to such an extent that policy coordination is unavoidable.

We recognize the increasing importance of South South trade and economic cooperation and the changing context of North South interdependence and terms of engagement.

In an increasingly globalized and interdependent world, the suffering of one country affected all countries.

This co dependency will, at some point, also take shape politically, probably to the chagrin of all other international players, particularly the Europeans.

Like individuals in a society, eurozone countries are both independent and interdependent.

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Globalization and interdependence

Second, the fact that China holds so many dollars is not a true source of power, because the interdependence in the economic relationship is symmetrical.

Judging whether economic interdependence produces power requires looking at the balance of asymmetries.

The rise in food prices has exposed the downside of economic interdependence without global transfer and compensation schemes.

The premise is clear as the crisis made more evident than ever, the interdependence of countries is inescapable.

The world economy was highly integrated in 1914, but economic interdependence declined during the next three decades.

Ironically, however, such a grim prospect would not mean the end of globalization, defined as the increase in worldwide networks of interdependence.

But a sense of strategic vulnerability breeds interdependency, which has always been the key to successful US leadership in Asia.

It could not be otherwise in a world which is more and more interdependent, where threats, whatever their nature, spare no State.

Of course, when the crisis hit, financial institutions were the first to argue that autonomy was unrealistic, and that we are all interdependent.

Serbia remains stuck in a nineteenth century world of nationalism and refuses to recognize the new global realities of economic interdependence, inter state reciprocity, and collectivism all of which characterize today s EU.

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