Sixthly, the European Union is not a global power, but it has a global power's responsibility.

like in the American Independence, this is an actual overthrowing of a monarchy, of a monarchy that controls a major world power.

He said that the European Union is not a global power, but that it does have a global power's responsibility.

Two letters, an L and an O, now a worldwide force.

A more diverse Europe should in the future be a world power working for peace and solidarity.

I would like to focus on three issues firstly, Europe has to become a global political power.

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

A state becomes a world power when its strategic significance and potential give it global reach.

Despite this, the Netherlands was in those days a prosperous world power and had, relatively speaking, a great deal of freedom.

The EU has the fourth largest fishing capacity in the world.

It is said that Japan is the greatest economic power in the world.

The balance of world power politics has given way.

A minor player in the global economy in the 1980 s, China today is the world s third largest trading power.

It is said that Japan is the greatest economic power in the world.

The development of successful immigration policies may, therefore, make a telling contribution to Brazil s reputation as an emerging global power.

The full implementation of the internal market on a balanced basis demands this, as does the road to European Union, which is historically irreversible and can no longer be delayed.

After the Cold War, the US is noted to have emerged as the world's first superpower as defined by its military and economic might.

Notwithstanding its many setbacks in recent years, the US remains the only power capable of leading a global strategy that consists in balancing soft and hard power.

America s neo conservatives have wasted a large part of their country s power and moral authority in an unnecessary war in Iraq, willfully weakening the only global Western power.

Unfortunately, many of the solutions on offer are either too timid or demand too much of a global leadership that is in short supply.

According to an IMF study, as early as 2010 China will be the second largest economy in the world in terms of volume of production.

Clearly, another power must help the US to support global stability and promote multilateral cooperation.

Russia is being threatened with losing its status as a power. Russia will not be reborn without the rebirth of a powerful, modern army.

Since the Cold War's end, America is the world's sole superpower.

The whole world, it seems, views China as the next great global power.

The lesson is clear The muscle flexing rise of a world power can strengthen the strategic relevance and role of a power in relative decline.

China s course as a world power will be determined to a significant extent by the way it confronts this question.

The lesson is clear The muscle flexing rise of a world power can strengthen the strategic relevance and role of a power in relative decline.

Yet China will undoubtedly become the world s largest economic power in the foreseeable future.

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.

Now it was time for a war a really big war in fact, the first World War.

My question, however, is this is the Union able and willing to be considered a global power?

Indeed, not since Japan rose to world power status during the reign of the Meiji Emperor (1867 1912) has another non Western power emerged with such potential to shape the global order.

Unfortunately, the global system of international law and governance remains too weak to prevent the determined misbehavior of the president of the world's most powerful country if he is hell bent on starting a war on his own.

Could the world's lone but weary superpower actually learn something from China?

That will go a long way toward mitigating the risks that a new global power s emergence inevitably generates.

The preeminent power does not have to patrol every boundary and project its strength everywhere.

China will soon be the world s biggest trading power.

Iran has long made clear that it wants to resume its historic position as a major regional and indeed global power, an ambition that can only grow stronger as it watches Turkey s geopolitical stature rise.

It signified that one power was about to succeed another power.

His economic good fortune, combined with his readiness to stand up to the West, has created a misguided impression in Russia that the country is, once again, a world power.

Smart power is an important strategy for success in world politics, but no one said that it would be easy.

He left Russia with the world's third largest sea power, a naval force recognized for its strength and feared for its disciplined approach.

Furthermore, since Lisbon, Europe has given itself the objective of becoming a world power in terms of the knowledge economy and new technologies.

This is a Europe that, at Lisbon, stated its desire to be the number one world power in the field of knowledge, which Nikita Khrushchev wanted for his country as long ago as 1960, in order to beat the United States.