Sentences with phrase «global power projection»

Yet in post-Cold War Washington, where global leadership and global power projection had become all but interchangeable terms, senior military officers... were less interested in assessing what those difficulties might portend than in claiming a suitably large part of the action.

Putin's ability to foment pro-government nationalism has been strengthened by increased international recognition of the Russian military's global power projection capacity.

Just to put costs in context: China's huge $ 1.8 trillion in foreign reserves would cover the costs of global power projection for about two years.

Not exact matches

Researchers at Stanford University who closely track China's power sector, coal use, and carbon dioxide emissions have done an initial rough projection and foresee China possibly emitting somewhere between 1.9 and 2.6 billion tons less carbon dioxide from 2008 to 2010 than it would have under «business as usual» if current bearish trends for the global economy hold up.

The event, the ECNRA's first international nuclear workshop to address global nuclear power projections in support of the EIA's International Energy Outlook work, was an open forum to explore and debate issues impacting the nuclear sector from a global markets perspective.

And this cost projection assumes optimal conditions — the immediate implementation of a common global price or tax on carbon dioxide emissions, a significant expansion of nuclear power and the advent and wide use of new, low - cost technologies to control emissions and provide cleaner sources of energy.

Based on global projection data that take into account the effects of Fukushima, we find that by midcentury, nuclear power could prevent an additional 420,000 to 7.04 million deaths and 80 to 240 GtCO2 - eq emissions due to fossil fuels, depending on which fuel it replaces.