Europe currently exists as an economic actor, not as an international political actor.

Second, and more fundamentally, the US is a political military power in addition to being an economic power.

It must be an integrated economic, political, and social force.

By contrast, Japan has remained a fully pacifist economic power.

It matters greatly that China became a global military player before it became a global economic player.

Moreover, Germany, it seems, is becoming a geo economic power driven by the needs of its export sector.

Leadership entails more than the possession of enormous economic and military power.

The current crisis marks an important step in China s evolution as a great economic power.

No great economic power in history has been born without force until now.

Instead, Asia has become an economic powerhouse.

It may be difficult for China to ever match the success of a small Asian country like Singapore, which has already overtaken the US in terms of GDP per capita as measured by purchasing power parity.

In addition to its military capability, al Ittihad is a powerful economic force in southern Somalia.

History teaches that global economic order is difficult to establish and maintain in the absence of a dominant economic power.

The dream of homeownership is thus very much alive and is a powerful economic force in the emerging world.

SHANGHAI The recent financial crisis has seen Asia emerge as an economic powerhouse indeed, as a key driver of global growth.

They argue that a dominant economic power soon becomes a dominant military power, forgetting that the United States was the world s largest economy for 70 years before it became a military superpower.

For some analysts, the emergence of countries like Brazil as economic powerhouses stems partly from successful demutualization of their stock exchanges.

Moreover, should China safely navigate this storm, its status as a rising economic and political power will be strengthened.

Despite the deep economic frustrations of many of its middle class citizens (the truly indigent did not protest), Israel has become a global economic and military powerhouse.

The city benefits from the high level of economic freedom, liberal economic policy and has a highly diversified economy with particular strengths in information technology, tourism and logistics.

Tourism is a significant economic and social force in the world, whose current scale and likely future growth have serious implications for local and global environments.

His influence on Margaret Thatcher s government helped transform Britain from a post industrial basket case dominated by class struggle into Europe s dominant economic power.

On this basis, Japan s relative decline as a major economic power will continue, as its working age population will continue to shrink by about 1 per year.

Pessimists now fret that Asia is not big enough for both China and Japan you can t have two tigers in one forest.

And with feelings of deep remorse and a heartfelt apology always engraved in its mind, Japan has, since the end of the Second World War, resolutely and consistently maintained its principle of resolving all matters by peaceful means, without recourse to the use of force, never turning into a military but an economic power.

Meanwhile, he inherits an America that is no longer an undisputed hegemony, and that, together with its allies, is immersed in the most severe economic crisis since 1929.

It demands the power of ideas that can galvanize others. Such power also serves as the moral veneer to the assertiveness often involved in the pursuit of any particular cause or interest.

Economic and humanitarian crisis

This could not have been imagined even 20 years ago, and it is one of the best consequences of India s emergence as a global economic power.

Today, the country is a remarkable economic power the world s manufacturing workshop, its foremost financier, a leading investor across the globe from Africa to Latin America, and, increasingly, a major source of research and development.

The creation of America as a major economic power, after all, was made possible by giant steel mills, integrated railway systems, and the mobilization of enormous energy reserves through such ventures as Standard Oil.

I fear that China s leaders and people will continue to feel a certain gnawing, inchoate sense of deficiency and incompleteness in their quest for global respect until they find the strength to begin addressing the crucial, but elusive, issue of making China an ethical, as well as an economic and military, power.

Tom wanted an economy car.

A Grand Unified Economic Theory?

Financial Gain, Economic Pain

In India, Mahatma Gandhi rejuvenated the country s soul, which had been battered by colonialism, and Jawaharlal Nehru established its democratic political culture. Modi now must lay the foundations for India s emergence as a global economic power.

As it basks in its new status as an economic superpower the dragon that is outpacing Asia s tigers as well as the donkeys of the West China is mistakenly downplaying its own serious structural weaknesses.

These more than 100,000 deaths are a tragic indictment of India s economic miracle, and an embarrassment for a government eager to promote India s image as an up and coming global economic and military power.

Then, in 1992, Deng Xiaoping set in motion one of the most rapid and total marketizations of a society in history, catalyzing China s spectacular rise as an economic superpower.

European culture, customs and government were introduced, with the Roman Catholic Church becoming the major economic and political power to overrule the traditional ways of the region, eventually becoming the only official religion of the Americas during this period.

Japan is confronted with severe economic problems.

An Economic Agenda for Italy

Need for appropriate economic incentives.

We are doing that for purely economic purposes.

The embargo against Cuba is an act of economic war.