The global financial crisis — which, this time, started in America itself rather than on the world's periphery — spurred the process of global realignment in favor of new centers of power and influence.
These trends feed our rivals' destabilizing dreams of global realignment.
Others in the region see the Trump candidacy as a symbol of western democracy and values gone awry, hinting at a more profound global realignment.
Sergei A. Karaganov, deputy director of the Institute of Europe, based in Moscow, and a foreign policy and defense expert, said the mere fact of an agreement was a victory for two nations that, before the global realignment set off by the Sept. 11 attacks, seemed to be drifting apart.
The numbers already point to a dramatic fall in congressional decisions at a time when America needs to navigate tricky domestic and global realignments.
There are many reminders here in Davos that the global financial crisis and economic slowdown have hastened a realignment in global power.
El-Erian sees four trends: 1) Realignment in global growth 2) Return of inflation 3) Structured finance has diminished the barriers to entry 4) The transfer of wealth.
But with the changes in global trade agreements, political realignments, new technology and consumer demands for local production, supply chains aren't set in stone.
A global currency realignment along these lines would result in further improvements in the U.S. trade balance.
His speech there will come two weeks after the one scheduled for Wednesday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Cincinnati, where Mr. Kerry plans to respond to Mr. Bush's global military realignment plan, which would pull 70,000 troops out of Europe and Asia.
