In doing so, IBSA has been successful at "soft balancing" that is, flexible coalition-building in global institutions which "does not directly challenge U.S. military preponderance, but rather uses non-military tools to delay, frustrate, and undermine the superpower's unilateral policies" [ 33].
Feminism was no longer a unified political movement (there were too many groups and cliques for that) and nor had it yet evolved into more flexible, post-feminist coalitions involving race, class, environment, and single-issue campaigning.
In this sense, the power relations in the intergenerational parenting coalition are flexible and diversified.
That, according to Mr. Rumsfeld, requires a more flexible way of building coalitions, seeking allies but refusing to allow pressure from them to restrict American action.
Germany's arrangements are also flexible, he points out, but coalition governments slow down the process there.Shuffling the departmental furniture is doubly tempting for ministers frustrated in their attempts to change the way a ministry operates.
But the prime minister said that on the contrary, the new proposal showed that his Conservative-led coalition government was flexible and willing to modify its programs when the occasion called for it.
However, what could happen if the coalition structure is flexible and unknown to the planner?
Our assessment, based on our conversations with commanders on the ground, is that a strategy for success will require additional U.S. and coalition forces and more flexible authorities.
A network is a platform for advocacy, deeper than a coalition, but more dynamic and flexible than an organization.
In the municipal elections held on Dec. 3 the so-called Pan Blue coalition, composed of parties more flexible than the ruling party regarding reunification with China, captured 17 out of 23 seats, building on the coalition's success in the 2004 legislative election.
