Russia s somewhat archaic political culture overly personifies power.

But power be it political or economic without legitimate origins is arbitrary.

And it is this collective commitment to the law governing how political power can be exercised that is the essence of liberal democracy.

Although the Iranian regime s rhetoric may be totalitarian, political power there is much more diffused.

It is said that political power in Pakistan flows from the three A s Allah, the Army, and support from America.

The second complicating factor is that political power now lies in the hands of competing militias.

The political party in power has alleged that the opposition has indulged in a conspiracy to frame them.

Political power in Shanghai is widely seen as a stepping stone to higher positions in the national government.

Alas, Russia is moving more in the opposite direction political power is becoming more, not less, concentrated.

Political Evolution

This political power, not the requirements of energy policy, is what makes giving up nuclear energy so difficult.

Moscow.

The policy problem is simple.

Political scheming is guaranteed.

China s Political Storm

The Techno Political Transformation

The political situation has changed.

It doesn t condemn the EU, but as French President Nicolas Sarkozy likes to say, it doesn t save it, either. The member states political authority remains the motor of European policymaking, with all that this implies in terms of coordination, compromise, and negotiation.

Indeed, political modernization faces massive opposition from the Chinese Communist Party, which has no interest in surrendering its monopoly of power.

The member states political authority remains the motor of European policymaking, with all that this implies in terms of coordination, compromise, and negotiation.

Kremlin Rules

A fifth estate

For others the motivation is political.

South Korea s Political Springtime

Political demonstration in Azerbaijan.

(Christianophobia or political provocation?).

His political career has ended.

This corporation is a political puppet.

We need a political revolution.

The US President, whose hands had been tied in recent months by domestic concerns, and whose political power had been progressively eroded, has suddenly returned to the world stage.

MEXICO CITY In El Salvador, for the first time ever in Latin America, a former political military organization that tried to gain power through the barrel of a gun has achieved its aims through the ballot box.

Ultimately, divine authority trumps political authority.

India u0027s Bollywood Power

Russia s Fragile Power

Solidarity Takes Power

Power corrupts people.

Power corrupts people.

The political map was subtly but consequentially redrawn.

They were admitted to the EU only fifteen years after the fall of communism, and not all of them had previous experience with democracy.

The political environment is much more hostile.

Sovereign regimes require a political identity.

Lisa Margonelli The political chemistry of oil

Their political cultures are underdeveloped.

How does Algeria's political system work?

This is the main reason why it will be difficult for Japan to conclude the proposed trilateral FTA, despite Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda s recent endorsement of it.