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The Egyptian Revolution makes it clear, if anybody was in doubt, that digital technologies are going to play a powerful role in the future of global politics. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else. -- Samuel P. Huntington
In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others. -- Hassan Rouhani
Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept. -- Stephen Kinzer
The question really is what will be the central focus of global politics in the coming decades and my argument is that cultural identities and cultural antagonisms and affiliations will play not the only role but a major role. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules. -- Paul Johnson
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support. -- Paul Samuelson
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. -- Freeman Dyson
What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. -- Thomas Friedman
Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent. -- Michael Eric Dyson
I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization. -- Stuart Townsend
Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises. -- Ivan Krastev
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge. -- David Suzuki
The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability. -- Hillary Clinton
I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance. -- Martin Jacques
Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination. -- Pankaj Mishra
Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global. -- Gabriel Byrne
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority. -- Michael Ignatieff
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart. -- Terry Eagleton
The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington. -- Evgeny Morozov
Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is. -- Rush Limbaugh
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming. -- John Coleman
With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave monolingual Britain? Our political leaders like to boast about how global Britain is, but when it comes to languages, it is near the bottom of the global league, together with another island state, Japan. -- Martin Jacques
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My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics. -- Ban Ki-moon
Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre friends and allies. -- Samuel P. Huntington

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