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Dictatorships are regarded as indestructible before they fall, Trotsky reminds us, but their
demise
is viewed as inevitable once they are toppled.
And their
demise
is likely to lead to very different outcomes: liberation for the Libyans and stagnation for the Saudis.
The ideological victory that they achieved with the Soviet Union’s
demise
was not permanent.
In this sense, the US-led international order could outlive America’s primacy in power resources, though many others argue that the emergence of new powers portends this order’s
demise.
Not only Israel and the US, but also Egypt and Saudi Arabia have hoped for the political
demise
of this friend of every radical regional cause – from Hamas and Iran to the anti-Western forces in Lebanon – that they oppose.
When demonstrations erupted in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, ultimately leading to the
demise
of three old and weary dictatorships, no one knew which forces, institutions, and procedures would emerge from the protesters’ demand for democracy.
The
demise
of Libya’s nuclear venture offers a template for dealing with Iran.
The first was the euro crisis, which could have ended with the
demise
of the common currency.
But Bo apparently is not accepting his political
demise
as a final act – in his closing statement, he told the court that he wanted to keep his Party membership (he was expelled anyway) – and a comeback calculus may well have motivated his spirited performance.
True, Russian liberalism has contributed to its own demise, by its incompetence and factionalism.
His decision preserved Soviet rule in East Germany for decades, but contributed to his own political
demise.
But this reading misses a critical development: the
demise
of America’s decades-long policy of engagement with China.
But it was not inevitable that King Abdullah’s
demise
– and the emergence of Crown Prince Salman as his heir to the throne – should come at a time of peak instability in a region already buffeted by the type of change that the House of Saud welcomes least of all.
One reason that IT gained such wide acceptance as the monetary-policy anchor of choice was the
demise
of its predecessor, exchange-rate targeting, in the currency crises of the 1990’s.
On one side are those who caution that departure from the EU would cause trade to collapse, discourage investment, push the UK into recession, and trigger the
demise
of the City of London as a global financial center.
The Obama Doctrine and AfricaMADRID – President Barack Obama’s much discussed Cairo speech represented not only the
demise
of George W. Bush’s ideological drive to reconstruct the Muslim world through a democratic revolution; it marked the end of American liberalism’s quest to remake the world in its own image.
By law in the US, new approaches superseding established bankruptcy procedures dictate the
demise
rather than the rescue of failing firms, whether by sale, merger, or liquidation.
Not only did reckless monetary accommodation set the stage for Japan’s demise; the country’s central bank compounded the problem by taking policy rates to the zero bound (and even lower), embracing quantitative easing, and manipulating long-term interest rates in the hopes of reviving the economy.
They failed – and later claimed victory for the full
demise
of the Soviet empire.
After the
demise
of the USSR, they quickly displayed very different social and political preferences.
In the heyday of the Soviet Union, when Georgians of my generation dreamed about the eventual
demise
of the empire (because all empires eventually break up), we did not dare to imagine that it would happen in a peaceful and orderly manner.
There is no question that Putin would benefit from the EU’s
demise.
What is known is that Bin Laden’s
demise
came at a moment when relations between the CIA and Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan’s intelligence agency, had sunk to an all-time low.
The root of Chen’s moral
demise
is something the classical Greeks identified: hubris.
But capitalism’s (or democracy’s) victory began to look less complete against the backdrop of ethnic and religious strife – and soon sectarian terrorism – that filled some of the vacuum left by the
demise
of the Soviet Union.
Regarding the
demise
of communism, the experiences of, say, Poland and Romania are profoundly different.
Those who predict capitalism’s
demise
have to contend with one important historical fact: capitalism has an almost unlimited capacity to reinvent itself.
But it would be a mistake to assume that these defeats will spell the
demise
of ISIS or similar violent extremist groups.
In the end, Chinese outrage at North Korea usually gives way to refusal to play any part in the
demise
of its neighbor and one-time ally.
Mikhail Gorbachev did not, but he remains a prophet without honor in Russia for the policies of glasnost and perestroika that led to the
demise
of the Soviet Union and the rise of democratic Russia.
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