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While the Iraq War discredited the idea of coercive democratization, both Republicans and Democrats have a strong strand of idealism in their foreign policy orientations.
Keen to revive a more militant form of nationalism in their own countries, politicians like Strache, Wilders, and Dewinter see Israel as a kind of model – a model discredited for a long time in Europe, owing to bad memories of fascism and Nazism.
Our revolution of 1989 now seems more like a coup, with one part of the communist elite simply replacing that part which had become utterly discredited.
For the left, his victory is an incentive to come up with realistic alternatives to the tried and failed liberal nostrums, and the discredited state socialism that was abandoned a decade ago.
The deeply discredited elections put an end to those hopes.
The post-2007 Great Recession discredited the IMF further for three reasons.
And yet, however limited the London summit’s achievements proved to be, the summit process itself was not fully discredited until Snowden’s intelligence revelations.
While much of the communist party's view of history is now discredited, it is also true that competing views of the past are not allowed.
Cameron, too, could one day be remembered as a barely relevant and largely discredited figure.
Western reporting, once commended for its veracity, now seems discredited across China, although sympathetic coverage of the loss of life in Sichuan may have redeemed the Western media somewhat.
But, as their regimes increasingly came to be seen as politically illegitimate, their model of Islam was also discredited.
It was inevitable that the parliamentary majority would become leftist, it was equally inevitable that its intense opposition would lead to superfluous redivisions of power and changes in the discredited fundamentals of the state system.
In this situation, the communists discredited themselves by failing to impeach the president.
Parts of the intelligentsia, however, men like Berezovsky (who was a renowned mathematician), went into business and politics and discredited themselves.
And we should remind Paul Ryan that he made a mistake by going along with the Bush administration’s discredited economic and foreign-policy initiatives between 2001 and 2008, and that it is a disservice to the country to show unconditional partisan support for an administration that is so obviously unfit.
Bush’s presidency was discredited and sunk by the man whom he fatally selected to work for him.
Even if one accepts the claim of the Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff that very high public debt levels mean lower growth – a view that they never really established and that has subsequently been discredited – Australia is nowhere near that threshold.
With communism discredited and Catholicism waning, the connection - mental, psychological, even spiritual - of the land with defense of the fatherland, appears to be Poland's last political certainty.
Until recently, Muslim fundamentalists were discredited, because militias such as “al-Badr” and “Razakar” had supported atrocities against civilians during the civil war of 1971.
It is, after all, President Kuchma who is discredited, not Ukraine's constitutional arrangements.
Its equity markets have been discredited.
But Europe’s 10-year-old Lisbon strategy to secure global high-tech leadership is widely discredited, which is a further reason to include a large R&D component in any EU-wide industrial program.
If such metaphors are wrongheaded, either social policies must play an equalizing role or the model itself will become discredited.
Moreover, for the realists, America’s defiant behavior toward its oldest and most faithful allies – reflected in the recent surveillance scandals implicating the National Security Agency – has discredited the very idea of a “community of values.”
He could browbeat Russia’s oligarchs into submission and recast the upper house of the Duma to make it bend to his will because he was universally popular and the other elements of Russia’s mostly discredited government knew it.
The particular circumstances that enabled his electoral victory in 2017 – a discredited center-left, and a center-right candidate disqualified by scandal – will not reproduce themselves.
As a candidate, US President Donald Trump denied the overwhelming evidence for climate change, endorsed the discredited claim that vaccinations caused autism, and asserted that compact fluorescent light bulbs can cause cancer.
Russians who are dissatisfied with the system still have a limited choice: either support marginal, weak, and discredited oppositional candidates, or, hoping for modernization from the top, side with the very system they oppose.
By the time the US-led Dayton Accords had put an end to the war, in December 1995, the UN’s peacekeeping capacity had been so thoroughly discredited that NATO war-fighting troops were sent in to take over from the UN Protection Force.
Elites in Western countries discredited themselves by permitting the financial excesses that helped trigger the Great Recession and by being slow – particularly in Europe – to deal with the social consequences.
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