Soft Power and the Struggle Against Terrorism

So is this the fall out from some kind of power struggle?

In a struggle of power, if you aren't with us, you're against us.

Undoubtedly, there are warlords among them undoubtedly, they are divided among themselves for ideological, political and tribal reasons or because of the internal struggle for power.

The Struggle for Syria

Ukraine s Struggle for Law

After more than 20 years of power struggle, Brazilian women still have not succeeded in obtaining their reserved rights.

Arm in arm for struggle.

I struggle for my family.

In contrast to the Mexican, Chinese, or Russian revolutions, economic disenfranchisement is not driving the current conflict. This is a struggle for power, not for economic justice or a better life.

The struggle for Egypt thus continues.

The Struggle for Middle East Mastery

But power, defined as the ability to influence others, comes in many guises, and soft power is not weakness. On the contrary, it is the failure to use soft power effectively that weakens America in the struggle against terrorism.

But it faces an uncertain political future. If a power struggle emerges, the large Bushehr reactor could be used as a bargaining chip.

But I really did struggle for financial support.

They're hardwired for struggle when they get here.

But our power of analysis has grown over time, and we now observe perhaps more keenly that poverty, the struggle for scarce resources and socio economic injustices lie at the heart of conflicts.

Saudi Arabia is in a violent struggle with Iran for regional supremacy, with geopolitical competition converging with the Sunni Shia rivalry. Israel, the Middle East s only nuclear power, wants to retain its strategic monopoly.

Although no modern state would do so, the Sports Guidance Commission comprises the regime s most powerful members. Jang s move to the post strongly suggests that the internal struggle for power is already heating up.

Mathematicians for several hundred years had to really struggle with this.

The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

Poverty, despair, struggle.

Turkey s Class Struggle

Syria s Hijacked Struggle

Their struggle for democratic rights is everyone s struggle. People in Latin America know this, even if their leaders are not always willing to say it out loud.

Clearly, Mr. Hariri's assassination took place against the backdrop of his power struggle with the Syrian Arab Republic, regardless of who carried out the assassination and with what aim.

Allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.

America s Political Class Struggle

China s Struggle to Slow

Therefore, the struggle for national freedom and justice was continued in our countries.

But even as it got harder for him to walk and get dressed in the morning I saw him struggle more and more my father never complained about his struggle.

Local people struggle to compete.

The Egyptian Struggle and Beyond

The campaign for the 219 Nigerian girls kidnapped simply because they wanted to go to school is an iconic battle of this freedom struggle. That struggle will be won some day.

One of the few positive features of the region is that no global power rivalries are currently playing out there. But the regional struggle for mastery between Iran and Saudi Arabia (with Israel as a third actor) could prove to be all the more dangerous, given the prevailing and deeply entrenched mindset of traditional power politics.

That will require more use of the soft power of attraction rather than relying so heavily on hard military power, as the Bush administration has done. For the struggle is not a clash of Islam vs. the West, but a civil war within Islam between a minority of terrorists and a larger mainstream of non violent believers.

Revolutions are probably never as they seem, but Romania s was especially ambiguous. For, at the moment of Ceausescu s speech, it became in effect two revolutions one that played out publicly in the streets, and the other a deep and behind the scenes struggle for power among elites.

Mobilization of Morsi s Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist supporters is also risky. Indeed, the revolutionary step of steering once armed Islamists toward electoral and constitutional politics could be reversed in ongoing power struggle.

A wide range of people, inside and outside Lebanon, told the Mission that Mr. Hariri and Mr. Jumblatt had feared for their lives and saw the attempt on Mr. Hemadeh's life as a part of the ongoing power struggle with the Syrian leadership.

Narrator It's about the liberation struggle.

We really struggle to do this.

And she said, What's the struggle?

The economic struggle has environmental dimensions.

For me the policing stood for power to correct, power to prevent and power to detect.

But the region s struggle for power and its sectarian ideological antagonisms also create an opportunity for cooperation once scarcely thought possible. Seen from this perspective, any US Iranian talks over the nuclear issue in the wake of Hassan Rouhani s victory in Iran s presidential election could have much broader significance.