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As a result, the negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, as well as the civil war in Syria, may well take on a new dynamic.
And Algeria’s attempt to quell longstanding civil strife was largely successful, thanks in part to high oil prices throughout this period.
Specifically, Arab youth yearn for greater participation in civil society, emancipation from patriarchal hierarchies, and more space for individual creativity.
The only route to large-scale change in the Arab world is to unleash innovation and creativity – and that demands an unbounded civil society.
Fundamental civil rights must be established, supported by deep changes in the education system, reforms of family law, and a more open space for media and culture.
Four years after the outbreak of the country’s civil war, and despite the horrific humanitarian consequences of the fighting, international diplomacy to stop the violence has achieved nothing.
Whether this is enough common ground for a constructive dialogue with Iran on ending Syria’s civil war remains to be seen, but it is an option that must be pursued.
At the same time, civil bankruptcy procedures will need to be reformed, to ensure the reasonably fast action on defaulted borrowers’ assets.
During the 1970’s, the PLO entered Lebanon’s civil war, wearing out its welcome there.
The irony is that real change could come about only from a civil war won by moderates.
But the Palestinians are not engaged in a civil war pitting moderates versus extremists.
The Algerian military coup eventually ushered in a bloody civil war that is estimated to have taken more than 200,000 lives.
Likewise, the revival of the Shia-Sunni civil war in Iraq largely reflects the sectarian rule of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
The Leninist “democratic centralism” to which Morsi seemed to have subscribed, if maintained, will be a standing provocation to the new generations and their allies in the old state apparatus to rise up, even at the price of civil war.
The authorities must resolve fundamental constitutional questions (such as whether Iraq should be a federal state or a confederation), rebuild civil society, reform state institutions, reconstruct the economy, and end the waste and corruption in the oil sector.
Yet Botswana averaged 8.7% annual economic growth over the past thirty years, while Sierra Leone plunged into civil strife.
It knows that the bureaucratic apparatus remains outrageously large, and that civil servants retain numerous expensive perks - cars, dachas, medical services, and more - while most ordinary Russians scrape by on meager wages and vegetable gardens.
It demands a state with limited aspirations to interfere in civil and economic life, but with the authority and resources to act decisively in those areas where it must.
They show the power of partnerships that bring together the United Nations, governments, development agencies, civil society, foundations, and the private sector.
The picture is even worse in Syria, where, from the outset of the country’s civil war, Iranian support for President Bashar al-Assad has amounted to a criminal act for which Iran’s leaders should be tried at the International Criminal Court.
And Syria’s western neighbor, Lebanon, is increasingly coming under Iran’s sway, as the Iranian-backed Hezbollah there pushes the country to the brink of another civil war.
Indeed, US military spending exceeds the sum of federal budgetary outlays for education, agriculture, climate change, environmental protection, ocean protection, energy systems, homeland security, low-income housing, national parks and national land management, the judicial system, international development, diplomatic operations, highways, public transport, veterans affairs, space exploration and science, civilian research and development, civil engineering for waterways, dams, bridges, sewerage and waste treatment, community development, and many other areas.
The most important lesson is that Islamic organizations can provide the backbone of a tolerant civil society.
Syria’s civil war has occurred in two phases.
So why does the US continue to back a deadly rebellion in a civil war that is continuing to escalate dangerously, now to the point of chemical-weapons attacks?
Already, it faces escalating violence that has brought it to the brink of civil war.
The pressure on African governments to enact legislation against terrorism may pose new threats to civil liberties at the very moment when democratization is gathering momentum.
Many other emerging economies – Ukraine, Argentina, Venezuela, Russia, Hungary, Thailand, and Nigeria – also face significant political and/or social uncertainties and civil unrest.
And that list does not include the perilously unstable Middle East, where the Arab Spring in Libya and Egypt has become a winter of seething discontent; civil war rages in Syria and smolders in Yemen; and Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan form a contiguous arc of volatility.
And Ukraine, having gotten rid of a kleptocratic thug, may stabilize under a Western-led economic revival program – that is, if the country can avoid civil war.
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