In a key strategic move, Britain will on Tuesday respond to the implosion in Iraq by deepening its diplomatic ties with Iran, leading to the reopening of the UK embassy in Tehran, as part of an effort to increase leverage over the besieged Maliki government in Iraq.
In a key strategic move, Hague will today announce that the UK is deepening its diplomatic ties with Iran, leading to the reopening of the UK embassy in Tehran, as part of an effort to increase leverage over the besieged Maliki government in Iraq.
Mitsubishi Motors retains the post of president and chief executive, and the new pact gives DaimlerChrysler increased leverage over the Japanese automaker and a time frame to reassess the alliance, analysts said.
In 1998, there were 60 wholesalers routing magazines to most of the nation's newsstands; now there are just four, which wield increased leverage over magazines struggling to get into consumers' hands.
What if, Lynn asks, "the extreme economic interdependence between the United States and China is not actually carrying our values into a backward and benighted realm, but accomplishing precisely the opposite -- granting the Chinese Politburo ever-increasing leverage over America's economic and political life?" And, one might add, leverage over all the other multinational host countries?
But the pressure is always to use the battlefield to increase leverage at the negotiating table.
Having a North Korean envoy meet with his South Korean counterpart about the North's nuclear weapons program is symbolically important for South Korea, which is trying to increase its leverage over the North and make it respect the South.
In the interim, what Apple (and the countless less-sexy enterprises whose products are manufactured in China under similar conditions) can do to improve the lot of those who craft its wares is this: increase their leverage over their suppliers, by making the threat of moving production elsewhere credible.
The BSR report itself concludes that there would be "both advantages and disadvantages" to a Facebook presence in Myanmar since "the existence of local Facebook staff may increase government leverage over content restrictions and data requests by allowing them to threaten seizure of Facebook's IT equipment or data or place Facebook staff at safety risk".
Yet he has underappreciated how much Al Qaeda has increased his leverage over the I.R.A.
On Monday, North Korea increased its leverage over Seoul by detaining a South Korean worker at Gaeseong, a North Korean border town where the two Koreas run a joint industrial park.
