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balance-of-power

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  • The Plock base will erode; they may remain a viable party in the years to come, but hopefully never enjoy a balance-of-power position in Congress.

    9 posts from November 2009 2009

  • The Plock base will erode; they may remain a viable party in the years to come, but hopefully never enjoy a balance-of-power position in Congress.

    Politics 2010

  • But the Apocalypse did not dock; instead the ship that came in was another balance-of-power world, more instability, a seriously declining hegemon shorn of ideas, and looming earth-shocks for which we are all determined to assign rhetoric in place of action.

    Michael Vlahos: America and China: Partners or Rivals? Michael Vlahos 2011

  • The Plock base will erode; they may remain a viable party in the years to come, but hopefully never enjoy a balance-of-power position in Congress.

    republican prime - reinvention 2009

  • In those quieter and more stable days, Afghanistan also had a government with institutions sufficiently strong to uphold that balance-of-power formula.

    Gameplans for Afghanistan 2011

  • James Miles of the Economist observed in March 2006: “The Bush administration is trying to cajole China away from seeing the global balance-of-power in zero-sum terms and persuade it instead that a rising China and a strong America could not only coexist but thrive together.”

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • James Miles of the Economist observed in March 2006: “The Bush administration is trying to cajole China away from seeing the global balance-of-power in zero-sum terms and persuade it instead that a rising China and a strong America could not only coexist but thrive together.”

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • Robert Cooper, a prominent European Union diplomat, argued that the EU as an organization had transcended balance-of-power politics.

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • Robert Cooper, a prominent European Union diplomat, argued that the EU as an organization had transcended balance-of-power politics.

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • The Plock base will erode; they may remain a viable party in the years to come, but hopefully never enjoy a balance-of-power position in Congress.

    republican prime - reinvention 2009

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