Only a strong Europe can provide the necessary counterweight.

Rampant corruption has discredited regional governors as a counterweight.

For them, the US is above all the strategic counterweight needed to balance China.

No other country in the region could act as a credible counterweight to China.

All these inhibitory mechanisms... act as a counterweight to the effects of learning mechanisms...

European foreign policy must provide a counterweight to that of the hyperpower across the Atlantic.

Today, however, there is no external counterweight to the domestic political pressure that is stalling further liberalization.

Certainly, Europe would lose traction as a badly needed counterweight to the US in world economic policy.

Given these realities, China sees the expanding European Union as a likely counterweight to unchecked US power.

Nor will any posture succeed that seeks to put Russia forward as a geopolitical counterweight to the United States.

Many of these countries will look to the US as a strategic counterweight should China seek to assert local dominance.

Gaullism, or the vision of a French led European counterweight to the US, has never been an option for Germany.

And concerned Southeast Asian countries have been entreating the US to remain in the region as a counterweight to China.

Furthermore, by raising regulatory capital costs in boom times, some counterweight to the pro cyclical bias intrinsic to financial systems would be introduced.

Sarkozy, for example, has revived a long standing French argument for some form of economic government in Europe as a counterweight to the ECB.

While China is not about to dominate these institutions, in southern Africa it is regarded as a potential counterweight to the US and the EU.

Turkey has no desire to serve as a strategic counterweight to Iran and believes that only a territorially intact Iraq can continue to play that role.

In a country that regards itself as a civilized counterweight to belligerent American hegemony, nearly half of all prisoners have never been convicted of a crime.

When all things are considered, Germany is a more reliable ally and partner than Ukraine, which some in Warsaw see as a potential counterweight to Russia.

In a country that regards itself as a civilized counterweight to belligerent American hegemony, nearly half of all prisoners have never been convicted of a crime.

Although sentiment favoring a secular state is considerable, a coalition that can serve as an alternative or counterweight to the Muslim Brotherhood will be difficult to assemble.

Indeed, Albert del Rosario, the foreign minister of the Philippines, which was under Japanese occupation during WWII, now strongly supports a re armed Japan as a counterweight to China.

Instead, it sets the stage for a no fly zone, which would protect Assad s regime and serve as a strategic counterweight to America s presence at Turkey s Incirlik Air Base.

In the heyday of American dominance, European governments profited doubly they were part of a powerful West and courted as a potential counterweight to US dominance by third countries.

The second point of convergence between Indian and Western interests is one that will probably get no public mention during Chirac s visit India can perhaps serve as a counterweight to China.

But now Japan, with overt support from Australia in particular, seems determined to change the balance by establishing, as a counterweight to China, a much denser alliance type relationship with selected partners.

And from the accumulation of these local, active, persnickety freedoms, is born the most efficient counterweight against the claims of the central government, even if it were supported by an impersonal, collective will.

A counterweight to the peace crowd may be new migrants from Eastern Europe, for whom cuts in social services would break no promises, and for whom job availability and wage levels are more important.

The withdrawal of US forces from Iraq only seems to have encouraged Turkey s will to create a cordon sanitaire on the Iraqi side of the border and possibly to establish a counterweight to Iran s influence on a Shia led government in Baghdad.

By contrast, secular liberal parties have yet to develop effective organizations or project compelling visions for the future. Although sentiment favoring a secular state is considerable, a coalition that can serve as an alternative or counterweight to the Muslim Brotherhood will be difficult to assemble.

Russia s unilateral annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine have ruptured its relations with the West, and Putin has intentionally recreated a Cold War atmosphere by touting Russia s conservative values as an ideological counterweight to the American led liberal world order.

In the heyday of American dominance, European governments profited doubly they were part of a powerful West and courted as a potential counterweight to US dominance by third countries. If they dissented from US positions, this did not seriously impair the West s strategic efficacy because American power was more than sufficient to compensate.

Throughout southern Africa, lingering resentments associated with colonization fuel distrust of the major Western powers, which continue to control the key institutions so determinative of the region s future, notably the IMF and the World Bank. While China is not about to dominate these institutions, in southern Africa it is regarded as a potential counterweight to the US and the EU.