Last July's agreement with world powers brought a realignment in Iranian politics.
For Israel and the Gulf Arab states, which also don't like each other much, the real issue is less about an agreement limiting Iran's ability to get a nuclear weapon than about a realignment of power in the Middle East region.
A nuclear Iran means, at the very least, a realignment of power dynamics in the Persian Gulf.
It represents a radical realignment of power in Indonesia and its early results are mixed and contradictory.
Berle is largely forgotten today, yet with that book he succeeded in persuading Americans to see their economic system in a new way — and helped set the stage for the most fundamental realignment of power since abolition.
Such a remarkable political win in the Supreme Court, effectively neutering the oversight authority of the accounting office -- and, by extension, that of Congress -- would amount to a seismic realignment of power in Washington.
The vote sealed the first major deal between President Obama and Congressional Republicans as Democrats put aside their objections and bowed to the realignment of power brought about by their crushing election losses.
In California, a state of 37 million people with some legislative districts more populous than many other states' Congressional ones, the potential realignment of power and money is lost on few.
It would also put Iraq on course to pass its perennial rival Iran as the Gulf's second-largest producer — a development that would imply a significant realignment of power in the region.
With Mandarin's ascent has come a realignment of power in Chinese-American communities, where the recent immigrants are gaining economic and political clout, said Peter Kwong, a professor of Asian-American studies at Hunter College.
