Such a deal, several years in the making, could calm a power contest that has not been without casualties.
Third, Kerry frames the US and China as competitors for Africa's natural resources — "they're buying up long-term contracts on minerals, you name it" — and this adds to a 'New Scramble for Africa' narrative in which Africans appear merely as pawns in a Great Power contest (much like, say, the Cold War).
Or will it turn out that our paeans to non-violence were just cynical tactics in an amoral international power contest staged by militaristic Israeli and American right-wing groups whose elective affinities lead them to shape a common narrative of the alien Arab/Muslim threat?
This power contest is paradoxical in some ways because even if the executive attempts to curb judicial power that gesture also re-affirms the judiciary's ongoing role in irregular migration matters.
They see that threat as rooted in an inescapable power contest between the rival Sunni and Shi'ite branches of Islam.
The power contest between the allied Military Committee and the Regionalists against the National Command were fought out within the party structure; however, the Military Committee and the Regionalists managed to turn the party structure on its head.
The Administration, trapped by its ahistorical skepticism about diplomacy, manages nuclear negotiations as merely an extension of regional-power contests.
The typhoon, described as the most devastating natural calamity to hit the Philippines in recent history, is emerging as a showcase for the soft-power contest in Asia.
The degree to which they're useful props in the great-power contest is negligible compared to the chaos they threaten.
It notes that a prison inmate has more power to contest treatment decisions than a psychiatric patient.
