Inevitably, traditional great-power rivalries also will revive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tomorrow's New Face Of Battle] Reference

In terms of Syrian great-power politics, he achieved traditional things.    From Wordnik.com.  [At The Table With Assad] Reference

Pundits thunder that we are returning to an age of great-power conflicts.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Isn’t the Return of History] Reference

Sustained great-power peace is rare; a functioning global economy is rarer still.    From Wordnik.com.  [Groping For A Vision] Reference

Everything from great-power war to elective support to counterinsurgency is on the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conflict | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

NEWSWEEK's Christopher Werth spoke with Kagan about the ascendancy of great-power competition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Kagan: Why Should Democracy Be Shy?] Reference

China's behavior represents a sort of great-power old-think that the world can no longer afford.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Intelligent Test?] Reference

That's the news for our energy future and for the future of great-power politics on planet Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael T. Klare: Twenty-First Century Energy Superpower: China, Energy, and Global Power] Reference

India nuclear deal, a powerful gift that legitimizes New Delhi's nuclear and great-power status.    From Wordnik.com.  [If The World Could Vote] Reference

India relations, Delhi's international credibility and its hopes of achieving great-power status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuclear Brinkmanship] Reference

They are the urgent threat to nuclear peace, the focus of years of great-power diplomacy and sanctions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nuclear Illusionist] Reference

There were consequences for all nations, especially small states who are vulnerable to great-power pressures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Was Willing to Lose in Iraq] Reference

Without some degree of great-power cooperation, global peace and stability becomes a far more fragile prospect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Abroad] Reference

Kabila is weak, and regional struggles, combined with great-power rivalry, are going to bedevil Congo f or years.    From Wordnik.com.  [An African Big Man In Trouble] Reference

Once the mantle of great-power status had been conferred on a nation, Roosevelt believed, it could not be doffed.    From Wordnik.com.  [What "W" Owes to "WW"] Reference

The Arab Peninsula was rife with puppets and puppet states during a century or two of great-power colonial chess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawg's Blawg] Reference

Those are small steps in the annals of great-power relations, but may prove early acts in a larger historical drama.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Global Warming] Reference

Externally it means the pursuit of policies to undercut American dominance and reassert Russia's great-power status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comrade Putin Knows Best] Reference

And it encourages a foreign policy bent on countering American hegemony and reasserting Russia's great-power status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comrade Putin's New Russia] Reference

During the reign of Frederick II, the Great (1740–86), Prussian royal absolutism and great-power status were confirmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [d. The New Context of the 18th Century] Reference

Like Britain preserving its great-power status with a permanent U.N. Security Council seat right as its empire crumbles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Only Blogger To Rewrite History Without A Pen | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

The test thus marks the failure of Beijing's highest-stakes diplomatic gambit yet in their own rise to great-power status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suzanne Nossel: North Korea: Sticking it to Washington, and to Beijing] Reference

The dangerously harmful Khruschevite politics, the great-power chauvinism of the soviet revisionists emerged on the scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist)] Reference

For both states the stakes are high, since the United States can facilitate (or hinder) their return to great-power status.    From Wordnik.com.  [If The World Could Vote] Reference

With the Empire now a distant memory, people evidently believe that it is time for Britain to abandon its great-power pretensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

Present-day battles in Africa and Asia may anticipate the political outlines to come, and the roots of future great-power alliances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Next Christianity] Reference

Danner: That's true, and they combine with this belief in great-power America an almost nativist distrust of international institutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hullabaloo] Reference

I just had to get in the "nukes killed great-power war" bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog] Reference

China-South Africa deals highlight great-power rivalry in Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Socialist Web Site] Reference

The beginnings of serious great-power economic cooperation in Asia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog] Reference

The beginnings of serious great-power economic cooperation in Asia ».    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog] Reference

But the US under his leadership will still pursue many of America's great-power goals.    From Wordnik.com.  [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference

S the news for our energy future and for the future of great-power politics on planet Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael T. Klare: Twenty-First Century Energy Superpower: China, Energy, and Global Power] Reference

The report barely mentions great-power diplomacy, the traditional core concept of statecraft.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

These same forces inhibit established powers from accommodating new players in the great-power game.    From Wordnik.com.  [JSOnline.com] Reference

So the Somalia pirate threat, such as it is, creates a nice corner of great-power security cooperation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog] Reference

Meanwhile, to the south of Russia, Central Asia threatens to become a caldron of ethnic conflicts and great-power rivalries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Ice Creations] Reference

South Africa's new ties with China, far from bringing new geo-political stability, will only intensify this great-power rivalry.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Socialist Web Site] Reference