The Rise of an Insecure Giant

China s rise is fraught with fear and uncertainty.

This attitude, the Protestant work ethic, still influences Americans today.

There are more than 50 hills within city limits.

The Catholic Bible contains everything in the Protestant Bible plus several other books.

BERLIN amp 45 amp 45 Asia s rise as an economic and political player exemplifies what globalization is all about.

Both books view the recent rise of India and China as shifting the world s economic and political tectonic plates.

The rise of Solidarity in the 1980 s was the earliest and most severe blow to the stagnating Soviet system.

The elevation of these two outstanding civil servants comes after a period when other professors have been squeezed out by the political process.

As a cultural artifact, it's both a sendup and embodiment of our Facebook enabled era of permanent reminiscence.

As hundreds of people poured past, a Reuters photographer stood perched on a step next to the building for a better view of the crowd.

One critical issue, however, usually escapes attention China s rise as a hydro hegemon with no modern historical parallel.

In fact, US allies like Indonesia and India have emerged as global players largely in response to China s rise.

The rise of Islamic fundamentalism poses another historic challenge, though one that is far more inchoate than any that the US has faced before.

The rise of Hamas in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon as instruments of Iranian ambitions can only worry moderate Arab regimes.

The lesson is clear The muscle flexing rise of a world power can strengthen the strategic relevance and role of a power in relative decline. Barely a decade ago, the US was beginning to feel marginalized in Asia, owing to several developments, including China s charm offensive.

The lesson is clear The muscle flexing rise of a world power can strengthen the strategic relevance and role of a power in relative decline.

First, the rise of an Arab political class that is more influenced by religion than by secular nationalism has eroded the main structural barrier to Turkish engagement.

Germany, traumatized by the memory of hyperinflation in the 1920 s and the consequent rise of Hitler in the 1930 s, is reluctant to sow the seeds of future inflation by incurring too much debt.

'Of course I am not jealous and could not be jealous of Serpukhovskoy, but his promotion shows me that if one bides one's time the career of such a man as myself may be very quickly made.

Triffin issued his warning more than 50 years ago, but it has recently gained traction, as China s rise has made the world increasingly disinclined to tolerate the instability caused by a dollar denominated system.

The surprising some say miraculous elevation of Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to the Papacy as John Paul II, his triumphal visit to Poland in 1979, the rise of Solidarity a year later, and the collapse of the Soviet system in 1989 changed the march of history.