Minority politicians have long wielded authority, if not power, in its various high offices.

This means that economists and other thought leaders can exert much influence for good or ill.

It should not be construed as a licence to practise a religion, and no one religious group should be able to exert influence over the registration of other religious groups.

And, like America then, India is not naturally at ease with the notion of exercising global power.

The EU and the US should wield more of their clout at the World Bank and other international organizations to link development grants to progress on press freedom and human rights.

NATO is still dominated by the US, and European allies still fall in line, if only just to keep the alliance going and in the hope of exerting some influence on the only remaining superpower.

The Romans also exerted influence on the Persian Gulf.

Britain in the Wilderness

Ever since the European powers set sail at the end of the fifteenth century to conquer the world, historiography and international politics have become accustomed to a certain pattern military, economic, and technological power is translated into the exercise of influence over other countries, conquest, and even global dominance and empire.

US influence in Burma is unlikely to outweigh that of increasingly powerful Asian neighbors.

When China s labor intensive industries emerge from their metamorphosis, we should expect to see firms that are larger, that invest more in product innovation and design, and that hold more sway over business and trade policies.

Here India has been slow to join the struggle for influence.

As it stands, India and China are openly competing for influence in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

Over time, enhanced influence will enable him to get more things done.

Advice ranges from sex in old age to tourism.

Trading kyat in the black market is formally illegal (and Burma s regime loves rounding up foreign exchange dealers from time to time), but it is the only way that people unconnected to the regime can ever hope to come across foreign currency.

First, if soft power means exercising influence because others want what you want, as Joseph Nye puts it, then women the world over want what American feminists began fighting for three generations ago.

States may choose individually not to exercise all their rights, or to exercise those rights collectively.

With influence must come accountability.

No Country for Young Oligarchs

Finland fell into the Soviet sphere.

Express consent to exercise of jurisdiction

Back in 1989 1991, exactly the same motive underlay President François Mitterrand s imposition of the euro on Germany that is, to harness the Bundesbank s monetary power to a framework in which France could be confident of wielding decisive influence.

But Cuba s influence on the old FMLN leadership remains intact.

The EU has even more leverage.

He possesses more influence than power.

This means a strategy based on political leverage not a threat of military intervention or regime change.

The pace of the decline of Western influence seems to have accelerated over the past decade.

Many Afghans complain that armed strongmen continue to dominate their local communities.

The border dispute remains unsettled, and both countries vie for influence in neighboring states such as Myanmar.

The practice of adopting country resolutions has proven to be ineffective.

The practice of States has been described as follows by Fitzmaurice

9.3 Exercise of women's rights in practice

They outlined a national strategy in which world influence was understood to flow from scientific leadership.

Nevertheless, China s leverage over North Korea is in part illusory.

Spain s influence is, to a large extent, a result of its national self confidence.

Russia has had centuries of influence in the Middle East and Central Asia, much of which used to be incorporated in the Russian and Soviet empires.

The White Moors are a light skinned Berber people who speak Arabic.

Private practice

Other presidential appointees exert considerable influence on firms, industries, or the entire economy.

Confused and self absorbed, Europe is not in the best position to wield influence.

Indeed, this vision of international relations clearly rests on building influence through military power.

This would force people to exercise choice.

Its authorities shall exercise their posts for five years.

Torture appears to be a common practice in order to secure confessions.