China s New Global Leadership

Social Enterprises Asia has emerged as a leader in social entrepreneurship.

Whether it recognizes it or not, China has emerged as a world leader.

Nancy Pelosi, the House majority leader, is from San Francisco.

Both women therefore represent very different choices as leaders and potential role models.

Look at Putin s attempt to rig Ukraine s previous presidential election, and the on again off again criminal charges brought against the opposition leader Yuliya Tymoshenko.

If she succeeds, she will emerge as the first great European leader of the twenty first century.

As head of the nation s most popular political party, Bhutto largely transcended Pakistan s ethnic and sectarian divides.

And, politically, Turkey has emerged as a regional leader, a role that it takes extremely seriously.

In crisis after crisis during her presidency, she exemplified unwavering firmness in the democratic exercise of power as a servant leader.

But she was undoubtedly a giant of twentieth century politics, a leader who changed her and our world for the better.

Indeed, the US has never had a woman president, Senate majority leader, Secretary of the Treasury, or Secretary of Defense.

But the US is no longer the country that others seek to emulate, or that they look to for global leadership.

His most ambitious strategy has been to try to form a partnership with Benazir Bhutto, the head of one of the two largest democratic parties.

By taking this step, Poland has become the ringleader for those in Europe who want to deny Jewish citizens the right to practice their religion freely.

'What about this guy, this guy, this guy, and this guy? Maybe they meant the first elected female leader of a Muslim state ?' he writes.

Once a world leader in the fight against environmental degradation, America was the last major economy to acknowledge the reality of climate change.

In writing to Merkel, he is addressing the leader of a country decimated by Nazi rule millions dead, an entire society and economy reduced to rubble.

But the comments were widely interpreted as an echo of pronouncements a few days earlier by Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far right National Front party.

OXFORD Many of the recent tributes for Margaret Thatcher following her death celebrated her as a transformational leader who brought about great changes.

Second, we find ourselves in the unusual position of having a global leader the United States that is also the world s biggest debtor.

Less than a year after his narrow victory over opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko in the 2010 presidential elections, Tymoshenko was arrested on trumped up contempt charges.

Bhutto, the leader of a secular party that now enjoys substantial support in Washington, would dominate policy planning in the next government at Musharraf s expense.

Mexico has long considered itself the leader of Latin America, but Chile, Colombia, and the rising regional giant, Brazil, are increasingly leaving it behind.

Marine Le Pen, the National Front s leader, is shrewd and efficient, running on a straightforward message Europe is against the people, so the people must mobilize against Europe.

Tellingly, Myanmar s pro democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has spoken of her country in terms of the vicinity of China, the geographical distance of the US, and the cultural linkages with India.

But, today, emerging countries are growing very concerned with what they rightly perceive as the serious risks to their own economies implied by excessive weakness in Europe, which remains the world s trade leader.

Sonia Gandhi, the leader of the ruling Congress Party, who pushed hard to promote Patil s candidacy primarily on gender grounds, calls this election a special moment for women across the country.

His effort to cut a deal with Benazir Bhutto was a final attempt to remain in office through the election of a civilian leader acceptable to the public (and the West).

Never before in the history of the Arab Israeli conflict has a state that considers itself a leader of the Arab Muslim peoples backed Israel so openly.

Its two super power assets nuclear weapons and energy make it a potential leader of all those lesser powers dissatisfied with their position in the world.

Given its growing profile, China must do far more to demonstrate its bona fides as a responsible global leader or risk undermining the system that has enabled its own miraculous rise.

As a national leader, Thatcher s principal achievements were to reverse Britain s decline, which had gained momentum in the 1970 s, before her first term as Prime Minister in 1979.

Merkel will play the central role in deciding how Europe positions itself, not only because she is the leader of the EU s largest economy, but also because she wants to be re elected in September.

Economically, Turkey is now in the G 20 and playing an effective role there. And, politically, Turkey has emerged as a regional leader, a role that it takes extremely seriously.

Sheikh Hasina, the Awami League s leader and the daughter of the Bangladesh s founding father, survived a grenade attack last summer that killed at least 20 people and injured hundreds more.

Labor s current leader, Shelly Yachimovich, superseded the fatalism of her predecessor, Ehud Barak, who maintained that the Palestinian conflict has no solution, with the politics of denial she refused even to acknowledge that there is a problem.

In Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh now has a charismatic leader whose massive electoral mandate augurs well for creating the type of strong, secular government that the country needs.

What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, military strength, or economic development?

Sarkozy, of course, did not define what he meant by a French Islam. But the comments were widely interpreted as an echo of pronouncements a few days earlier by Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far right National Front party.

Hope was a force for good in post war Europe, and it can be a force for positive transformation now.

Such a move would put Ukraine s strategic network of gas pipelines under direct Russian control, and, as Tymoshenko, now the opposition leader, has noted, would be tantamount to the full absorption of Ukraine by Russia.

MELBOURNE What are the proper limits of religious freedom? Marianne Thieme, leader of the Party for the Animals in the Netherlands, offers this answer Religious freedom stops where human or animal suffering begins.

Tymoshenko, who was and remains the leader of the liberal and pro Western opposition, was sentenced to seven years in prison for a gas deal with Russia in which she was not even accused of having benefited personally.

The opposition CDU leader, Angela Merkel, has linked its program to the ambitious ideas of an outsider, former Constitutional Court judge Paul Kirchhof, seeking a dramatic simplification of the tax system.