The Lisbon Treaty is set to tighten the existing structure of the European Union to strengthen its leadership and international clout.

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Today it is the hope of many people both here and abroad That we might even overcome might even transcend the basic structure of regime politics altogether and organize our world around global norms of justice and international law.

这是现今许多人的期望,不论是在美国还是国际上,我们或许甚至能克服,并超越政体政治的基本架构，彻底地,以全球典范来组织我们的世界,透过司法与国际法。

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International Crisis Group, Horn of Africa analyst Rashid Abdi says al-Shabab has a decentralized leadership structure that has been vulnerable to dissent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23