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Whether Iraq’s switch from a Sunni-minority regime to Shia-majority rule is a cause or a symptom of the current regional churn, it is clear that the sectarian
divide
has underpinned the crises in Iraq, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, and parts of Saudi Arabia.
More broadly, such a strategy could also start to close the deepening transatlantic
divide
that Trump’s presidency has opened up.
Indeed, the US effort merely widened the
divide
on security issues within Pakistani– a situation that serves no one’s interests.
Angry Muslim and Christian mobs burned churches and mosques, killing dozens of people in a series of attacks and reprisals that have deepened the sectional
divide
between the Muslim north and the Christian south.
Eliminating the old “right-left”
divide
in French politics by uniting “reformists” of the left, the right, and the center, was the challenge that Macron set for himself when he created his En Marche! movement in April 2016 as part of his bid for the French presidency.
Bridging the urban-rural
divide
has long been a focus of city planners.
But today, thanks to new technologies and bold thinking, the urban-rural
divide
in city planning is slowly closing.
That businesswoman's brush with the law typifies the main reason-aside from low incomes-that bridging the so-called "digital
divide"
between rich and poor countries is so difficult.
No, a large part of the
divide
is a direct result of domestic policies that suppress Internet and technology use.
But the ways governments in developing countries exacerbate the
divide
through their own regulatory policies are much less well understood.
Since Sudan won independence from the United Kingdom in 1956, the country has been convulsed by almost constant civil war based on the north-south cultural and religious
divide.
In the 1920's and 1930's, the Belgian authorities enacted policies that defined the population along ethnic lines and favored the Tutsi in a deliberate - and successful - effort to
divide
society and fan resentment among Hutu leaders.
Third, successive governments widened the ethnic
divide
through catastrophically predatory governance.
The Solidarity/postcommunist
divide
seems to have pickled Polish politics, leaving it without a new generation of leaders and thus without enthusiasm.
The most difficult problems in Poland are unemployment, which hovers around 20% – the highest rate in the EU – and the growing
divide
between rich and poor.
Soon enough, Iraq was faced with a new social
divide.
This candidate will not try to
divide
and polarize the country, but rather will unite it around common-sense approaches to fiscal policy, education, health care, and other long-term issues.
Europe is now stuck between a US and a Russia that are determined to
divide
it.
Such large trade agreements have become particularly important as a means to bridge the two competing economic and ideological models that increasingly
divide
the world: China and Russia’s authoritarian state capitalism and Western-style democracy and rule of law.
Here is where Poland can help bridge the Atlantic
divide
and forge a European consensus.
If the US is riven by an escalating culture war over its national identity, Trump has the uncanny ability of personifying the worst aspects of both sides of the divide: the lawlessness of the gunslinger and the rapaciousness of the city slicker.
To overcome the dangerous fissures that are tearing its society apart, the US must find a president who can bridge the cultural
divide.
Neighboring Lebanon, with its fierce Sunni-Shia divide, is already being directly affected.
While anti-establishment political parties did well across Italy, reflecting broad frustration with the mainstream parties, there was also a distinct north/south
divide.
Londoners’ collective message after 7/7 was decisive, and it must be Europe’s message as well: we will not allow such atrocities to
divide
us.
Hillary Clinton, trying to straddle the
divide
between the two wings of the Democratic Party, is increasingly leaning to the left as Sanders draws enormous crowds, something she has yet to accomplish.
It involved the termination of the great global ideological
divide
that shaped the course of this century: how to organize society, and how to distribute political power within society.
Now, increasingly, the great
divide
and the big questions facing us will pertain to the internalities of existence, to the self, rather than to the outside.
With the latest great-power interventions by the US and Russia, many are reminded of the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement between Great Britain and France to draw new national borders in the region and
divide
it into spheres of influence.
Ibn Saud managed to conquer and unite the vast territory of the Arabian Peninsula, give it his family name, and alienate, divide, and control his cousins and brothers in order to establish a clear and undisputed line of succession through his sons.
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