Now the rise in emerging economies is once again altering power relations among states and creating new geopolitical risks.
By background, she is a hard-edged realist, a believer in the uses of American power and the importance of great-power relations.
The chief geopolitical risk, which Mr Cookson underscores, is a longer-term one, but a process already under way: the very strength of emerging economies is altering power relations among states.
He brings together a tangy array of people whose place in the economy is sketched as clearly as their place in the chain of affections, and gets at the power relations that the most intimate connections depend on.
The mostly inexorable forces driving a rebalancing of strategic power and political relations are plain to see.
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Those messages represent the power of Investor Relations.
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But at the same time she emphasises the importance of restocking America's soft power and repairing its relations with the rest of the world.
Despite the lack of progress on the major trade issues, Paulson appears to be doing everything within his power to strengthen economic relations between the U.S. and China.
Public events express the relations of power among leaders and nations -- an ancient legacy inherited from Byzantine times where high politics were decided by seating arrangements at banquets.
So Turkish strength, in terms of hard power, of soft power, in terms of economic relations, is an asset for any American administration.
In the past, the court has recognized a "domestic relations exception" to federal judicial power.
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Yet in the decline of Western power lie the seeds of hope for healthier relations in the future.
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"Anything that would keep Saakashvili further away from the instruments of power is a plus for Russian-Georgian relations, " said Vyacheslav Nikonov, deputy head of the Russian parliament's international affairs committee.
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To understand the harm that could be done by an unlimited federal power to define the terms of domestic-relations law, Young recalls when a few states, venturing beyond the national consensus, began experimenting with no-fault divorce.
It was only when the Administration was facing virulent criticism for its inability to define and deliver a coherent U.S. policy toward Bosnia, culminating in the abortive five-power "joint action plan, " that the public relations program was put back into gear.
They might be employed by the American Enterprise Institute where they can collect steady paychecks between gigs working for government, or for campaigns for people who want to run governments, or running lobbying and public relations firms when the GOP is not in power.
Others have been casting doubts on the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) - the largest and most organised political party of the city which is a partner in power both at the provincial and central levels but whose relations with the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) have soured over the past couple of months.
More generally, the Nationalists have accused Labour of hypocrisy over the issue given their relations with News Corp during their period in Westminster power.
When Roosevelt reopened diplomatic relations, in 1933, the year Hitler came to power, Kennan was sent to accompany the new American Ambassador, William Bullitt, and helped to set up the Moscow Embassy.
Vajpayee as its would-be prime minister, it seeks to project a more moderate image, pointing to its half-dozen Muslim candidates and to the comparatively benign Hindu-Muslim relations to be found in the states where it holds power.
Improving relations with the South may also give North Korea more bargaining power with Japan and America.
Whoever thought of appropriating the word for the ugly metal-lattice structures that carry high-tension power lines across the countryside was therefore guilty of both a public-relations triumph and an act of etymological vandalism.
In exactly the same way, CEOs who believe in Public Relations often derive better results from it not because of the power of faith but because those CEOs also happen to be taking a series of other actions that help PR programs deliver amazing results.
By this analysis, Barack Obama took office committed to good relations with China, and ready to welcome it as a great power in return for China's accepting the global responsibilities that go with that status.
In what was billed as Clinton's farewell speech on Thursday at the Council on Foreign Relations, she said the United States needs to build "smart power" in a world where the levers of influence are changing rapidly.
First, relations with France, with which Germany has long shared a duopoly of power within the European Union, need mending.
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He said he has had "cordial relations" with Rabbani and did not anticipate any problems in the handover of power from the Northern Alliance leader.
Indeed, since the AKP rose to power in 2002, it has distanced Turkey from both Israel and the US while warming Turkish relations with Iran and Syria.
Tuesday afternoon, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will have an opportunity to demonstrate why the Framers gave the Senate the constitutional power to confirm presidential appointees.
Formal religion, meanwhile, is supposed to have appeared only after agriculture produced such hierarchical social relations as required a cosmic backstory to keep them going and supplied a template for the power relationship between gods and mortals.
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