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In fact, it actively supported the Zaidi royal family in Yemen’s civil war in the 1960s.
Furthermore, foreign investors do not want to deal with diplomats or civil servants.
Public diplomacy is an important tool in the arsenal of smart power, but smart public diplomacy requires an understanding of credibility, self-criticism, and the role of civil society in generating soft power.
But, with Syria immersed in a brutal civil war that has claimed more than 130,000 lives already, Libya on the verge of collapse, and Egypt returning power to the army and proscribing the Muslim Brotherhood, Tunisia has been the only success.
But this tendency can be mitigated, if civil society recognizes the importance of preserving lower-income housing.
Integrating transformative technologies into our social and economic systems will require close collaboration between stakeholders in government, industry, and civil society.
CCP rule may not last, but the alternative – state failure and civil chaos – could be far worse than the status quo.
Lebanon’s resilience owes much to the memory of its painful civil war (1975-1990).
Sharia, with its emphasis on swift justice, is often preferable to civil law in a country such as Nigeria, where courts are poorly administered and cases move slowly, when they move at all.
The 1990’s were marked by coups, countercoups, and civil wars, with two regions – Abkhazia and South Ossetia – essentially breaking away with Russian support.
Civil war followed, and in 1992 Russian troops entered Transdnistria, where they remain.
Stabilizing its neighbourhood is one reason why China embraces the six-party talks with North Korea, has become a big investor in Pakistan (while exploring ways to cooperate with President Barack Obama’s special representative, Richard Holbrooke), signed on to a joint Asia/Europe summit declaration calling for the release from detention of Burmese opposition leader Daw Aung Suu Kyi, and intervened to help end Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war.
Consider what happened last year to video coverage of the civil war in Syria.
Civil servants have been prodded to wear customary khaki uniforms, and women encouraged to don traditional dresses.
Another approach is to reform the bureaucracy and make it an honest and competent civil service.
But even in France, where the best and the brightest become bureaucrats, the civil servants are continuously caught taking bribes.
In places with a more normal civil service, including most of Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa, bribing bureaucrats is a way of life.
Royal perks include lifetime sinecures and domination of the civil service, which enable the princes to award contracts and receive commissions on top of their salaries.
When Alexis de Tocqueville visited the US in the 1830s, he observed that, both in public and private, Americans are able to overcome selfish desires, thus enabling both a self-conscious and active political society and a vibrant civil society.
And in many of the communities that the Fallowses cover, there is at least one craft brewery, where community members hold lively but civil discussions.
In the absence of international leadership in forging a political end-state, Syria’s conflict has tragically become a sectarian civil war – one that is rapidly metastasizing, with far-reaching consequences for US interests in the region and for prior US political investments in projects like Iraq.
And it has gone out of its way to thwart Western efforts to address major international challenges, most prominently the Syrian civil war.
For Jews, given the absence of a homeland, development occurred among the diaspora, with civil emancipation in Europe giving rise to reformist movements aimed at reconciling faith and modernity.
In Singh’s case, where government and civil society failed, an apparent charlatan succeeded.
If the coup had succeeded, Turkey likely would have descended into open civil war with no end in sight, and with all hope for democracy extinguished.
The civil war continued for another six years, followed by a bumpy political aftermath: Syrian intervention and expulsion (two decades later), as the Lebanese defined their own fate with the US exercising only background influence.
In 1992, the sirens of Somalia’s political collapse lured the US into another civil war to save a country from itself.
Suspicious of the military, Kim Jong-un’s government has repeatedly purged senior officers, which has surely stoked opposition that someday could spark serious civil strife.
Most people in the West regard Syria’s civil war as a continuation of the sectarian violence in Iraq.
The civil war will escalate further, because it is part of a larger contest for supremacy between Iran and its Shia allies and Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the other Sunni countries.
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