Of course, it is important that Russia becomes less dependent on energy exports.

Russia will have to confront the impact of a collapse in oil prices on its petro economy.

If Russia remains dependent on a natural resource economy, it will again become a colossus with feet of clay.

As a consequence, the induction and spread of heterochromatic regions requires the argonaute and RdRP proteins.

Argentina, by contrast, is a highly gas dependent country with diminishing reserves equivalent to less than eight years of production.

India, for example, is becoming less dependent on aid, and eventually will not need it.

In 2010, a major drought in eastern China damaged the wheat crop, forcing the country to rely on imports.

Nor has domestic consumption been sufficiently expanded, leaving economic growth overly dependent on exports and foreign investment.

Without advanced human resources, competent and competitive ones in line with the global demands of tomorrow, Russia is doomed to being dependent and to following instead of leading.

By making aid conditional on economic reform and democratic transition, however, the international community risks political triage.

In the process Mexico has also shifted from being dependent on oil earnings to becoming a diversified exporter of manufactured goods.

But for this anchor to work, Islam must be liberated from its traditionally subservient, passive and docile posture in the face of modernity.

But, rather than encouraging conservation, Bush has pursued a policy of drain America first, leaving America more dependent on external oil in the future.

The recovery of this far flung British dependency, whose citizens were resolutely committed to remaining British subjects after the Argentine invasion, was a daring military act.

The same could unfold in China, where the Communist Party is increasingly beholden to the military for retaining its monopoly on power.

The same could unfold in China, where the Communist Party is increasingly beholden to the military for retaining its monopoly on power.

For example, Europe has made little progress in formulating a common energy policy, leaving it increasingly dependent on Russia, which has not hesitated to exploit its bargaining position.

So the East Asian model has this massive selection bias it is known as selecting on a dependent variable, something we always tell our students to avoid.

But a vulnerable economy dependent on external credit has only helped increase pressure on Sri Lanka to investigate allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

True, trade makes any country in the age of globalization, whatever its political ideology, more dependent on all the players in the world wide marketplace.

No reasonable person expects Greece ever to be able to pay off its debts, but the country has become trapped in a seemingly endless cycle of payments and bailouts making it dependent on its donors for its very survival.

Making matters worse, market and monetary reforms have occasionally merged, with rule making becoming partly dependent on the decisions of disparate agencies and institutions.

In the end, the next decade will be marked by a delicate balance in which Europe remains dependent on Russian gas, but Russia s need for export revenues will also make it dependent on Europe.

Armenia, an independent country since 1991, remains dependent on continued Russian protection, as was the case in 1920 when it joined the Soviet Union rather than suffer further Turkish invasion.

In broad terms, these circumstances involve growing markets in certain classes of goods and services (natural resource intensive products), concomitant with absent markets and collective policies for natural capital (ecosystem services).

Since the country's independence in 1991, their lives have been defined by years of separation from their husbands and children, whose cash transfers from Russia make the country the most remittance dependent in the world.

The economic implications of such a stance, however, are perverse. Imagine an America or Europe still stuck in the 1950s, with economies dependent on coal and steel, and textiles, and with no competition from cheaper producers in Asia and elsewhere, and the danger becomes obvious.

Yet, sitting at spot number 189 out of 226, Tajikistan remains the most remittance dependent country in the world, sending over a million of its able bodied citizens abroad, typically to Moscow, where they face everyday harassment and lack rights protections.