Its activity most fully and visibly embodies the growing potential of the multipolar world order, and is gradually relegating to the sidelines of history unilateral or narrowly national approaches to resolving world affairs.

In fact, by converting the towns into the main poles of development and relegating the rural sector to second place Colombia has focused the attention of social and economic policies on the urban areas.

The result is a de facto separation between news and everything else. This conveniently allows the authorities to control news programming with an iron hand while relegating the bulk of programming to a looser and less labor intensive monitoring system.

In the report, the subject of nuclear weapons and of other weapons of mass destruction is taken up basically from the perspective of horizontal non proliferation, erroneously relegating to a secondary level the question of disarmament, which is, in fact, the fundamental and priority issue.

In fact, Europeans have raised serious questions about US intelligence practices. These range from the lack of professionalism implied by allowing contractors to conduct such sensitive work to America s hands off approach toward certain allies, like the United Kingdom and New Zealand, while relegating many of its other allies including most of the European Union to surveillance worthy status.

This conveniently allows the authorities to control news programming with an iron hand while relegating the bulk of programming to a looser and less labor intensive monitoring system. Of course, given China's highly politicized atmosphere, politics can leak into even the most innocuous areas of discourse, and the many talk shows and audience participation formats necessitate a less intrusive but nonetheless effective system of content regulation.

Contrary to much conventional wisdom, populism is not defined by a particular electoral constituency such as the lower middle class or by simplistic policies pandering to the masses, as liberal observers often argue. Rather, populism is a thoroughly moralized conception of politics, and a populist is a politician who claims that he or she and only he or she truly represents the people, thus relegating all political opponents to the role of iniquitous pretenders.