Robust policy interventions are needed, but global policy platforms are in disarray.

Sarkozy s goal is to exist as much as possible on the global stage.

States will remain the dominant actor on the world stage, but they will find the stage far more crowded and difficult to control.

Of course, democratization does not automatically guarantee better behavior on the world stage.

With peace, the dollar and Wall Street became the dominant force on the world s financial landscape.

But it also demonstrates the robust assertion of national interest by new players on the global scene.

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

It focuses on human actors on the world stage identifying the characteristics of human decision making.

In an era of rapid technological progress, creativity, and innovation, the global economic landscape can change rapidly.

He noted that while the number of refugees worldwide had decreased, the number of internally displaced persons continued to rise.

And it should help develop a vision on what the future financial landscape should look like.

Certainly, women must take their place on the global stage to shape global governance and international agendas.

This was particularly true in the twentieth century, when, in the wake of two world wars, the United States and the Soviet Union replaced the European world powers on the global stage.

By the end of the eighteenth century, Spanish and Portuguese power waned on the global scene as other European powers took their place, notably Britain and France.

The five new concerns indicated supplement the priorities of the World Programme of Action so as to keep up with new developments and changes in the world arena. We welcome these five concerns they are of great interest to us.

One of the most important recent developments in the global environmental arena is the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol on 16 February 2005.

Superficially, Russia and China may give the impression that they are pursuing the same path when they both proclaim with pride that they are back on the world stage.

Innovation and invention were clearly the key to ensuring a rapid pace of industrialization in a highly competitive global arena.

By contrast, in the interwar years poisonous international politics combined with global economic imbalances to create the Great Depression and set the scene for World War II.

But, whereas the US and Great Britain dominated the old Bretton Woods, today s global landscape is markedly different.

Though multiple European actors on the world stage were more than justified in the old days, this is no longer the case.

As America s legitimacy diminishes, new actors are appearing on the world stage or returning for an encore.

A new danger had emerged on the international scene as a result of the deplorable events of 11 September 2001.

China blocks it from participating fully in the international arena, whether through the World Trade Organization, the Olympics, or the UN s specialized agencies, including the World Health Organization.

Europe could change the course of this development only if it presented itself as a serious player and stood up for its interests on the global stage.

The Scorecard did identify European division as a prime reason for Europe s failings on the world stage for example, in its relations with Turkey and China.

All of this structural change is part of a constantly shifting global economic landscape whose aggregate pattern is not perfectly predictable, in part because countries enter and engage with the global economy at different times and expand at different rates.

However, China's appearance on the world scene, under the leadership of Mao Zedong, created a rupture between the Soviet Union and independentists movements.

In short, for the first time since the end of World War II, no country or strong alliance of countries has the political will and economic leverage to secure its goals on the global stage.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has sought to catapult his country onto the world stage as an emerging power, but he has not fared well.

And that, in turn, has triggered a round of bitter political squabbling that threatens to negate the entire idea of a much more powerful European voice on the global stage.

Dozens of detainees in the yard.

One moment, the public square is full of bulls the next you re being clawed by bears.

States will remain the dominant actor on the world stage, but they will find the stage far more crowded and difficult to control. A much larger part of their populations than ever before has access to the power that comes from information.

Just as the US now has to share the world stage with other economies, the dollar will have to make room for other international currencies.

Europe s global influence is feeble because of its internal quarrels and lack of unity, which render the European Union weak and limit its ability to act.

The Grand Place (French, also used in English) or Grote Markt (Dutch, ) is the central square of Brussels.

If Europe wants to pull its weight on the global stage, it will have to act with greater unity of purpose and shoulder a greater share of responsibility.

But Europe is too weak and too divided to be effective globally, with its leaders unwilling to pursue a common policy based on their countries own strategic interests.

Looking at Europe from a distance, it is tempting to see a continent receding from the world stage and in conflict with itself and with its past.

More recently, additional cultural influences came from the United States and Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to the growing influence of the former on the world stage and immigration from the latter.

What's happening today is that the power that was encased, held to accountability, held to the rule of law, within the institution of the nation state has now migrated in very large measure onto the global stage.

And, on the world stage, Russia and China have been encouraged to believe that America will never push past a veto, effectively giving them the final word.

These victories, as time transpired, would dramatically transform the distribution of power in East Asia, resulting in a reassessment of Japan's recent entry onto the world stage.

Many of them are already in place.