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Healing one of Christianity’s oldest divisions is a noble goal.
For example, despite the bitter divisions generated by conservative leader Malcolm Fraser’s role in the dismissal of Gough Whitlam’s Labor Government in 1975, I spent a year as Labor Foreign Minister in the early 1990s campaigning for Fraser to be elected Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.
In addition to federal power holding them in check, the governors are constrained by internal divisions.
Those divisions on the right, more than anything else, look likely to be the key factors that could bring Primakov, the would be saviour, to power next year.
For much of the post-1945 period, these divisions disappeared as right and left fought battles for redistribution within national economies.
Similar transactions happened also on the international level in the past (think of the divisions of Poland in the 19th century, or Yalta in 1945); but in the age of decolonization, this is indeed an anomaly.
Traditional versus modern, urban versus rural, intellectuals versus the peasantry: these divisions are the stuff of political cliché.
Sunni/Shia divisions are also at the fore.
All it would take would be one attack to impel the government to boost security, deepening divisions and spurring more violence.
In countries with strong ethnic, tribal, and religious divisions, unless it is made clear from the start that everything possible will be done to foster reconciliation, communal enmity will most likely simmer.
We have to live in the world we have, with all its political divisions, and not the world we wish we had.
The desire for referendums is not only a sign of internal national divisions; it is yet another symptom of a global populist demand to “take back our country.”
Indeed, they remain so distracted by Trump’s apparent lack of leadership skill and even mental capacity – which, to be sure, cannot compare to that displayed by Thatcher – that they have yet to grasp the depth of the divisions and neuroses that Trump has exposed.
While the Bush administration’s policies often served to unite Iran’s disparate political landscape against a common threat, an Obama presidency could accentuate the country’s deep internal divisions.
Given the certainty of divisions among officials on the relative importance of inflation and unemployment, a successful Fed chairman must also be able to work well with people of diverse perspectives.
Bitter divisions among member states have jeopardized the Schengen Area of borderless travel within the EU.
France’s citizens have tended to expect too much from their state, and now they may be expecting too little from politics and politicians at a time when deep divisions on fundamental economic and social issues run not only between the traditional right and left, but also within both camps.
As an emerging new establishment consensus grudgingly concedes, globalization accentuates class divisions between those who have the skills and resources to take advantage of global markets and those who don’t.
A crucial difference between the right and the left is that the right thrives on deepening divisions in society – “us” versus “them” – while the left, when successful, overcomes these cleavages through reforms that bridge them.
Narratives that have emerged in response to – or as a result of – national, regional, and global divisions are often structured by an “us-them” dichotomy.
But the Front National would probably not have gotten as far as it has, were it not for the divisions and weaknesses of the French right.
The Syrian Sectarian DelusionPRINCETON – As Syria’s 18-month-old rebellion has grown increasingly violent – exemplified by the recent massacre of rural villagers by the Syrian military and militias loyal to President Bashar al-Assad – long-standing sectarian divisions have become more pronounced.
Such examples complicate the notion of a Syria defined by rigid sectarian divisions, and experiences from modern Syrian history further blur sectarian lines.
The hesitation partly reflects the very different geopolitics of the Syrian crisis: potentially explosive regional sectarian divisions, no Arab League unanimity in favor of tough action, a long Russian commitment to the Assad regime, and a strong Syrian army, which would make any conceivable military intervention difficult and bloody.
But the Union could see its reputation worsen if it allows its commitment to Lebanon to become part of the emerging US strategy of isolating Iran by hardening today’s regional Sunni-Shia divisions.
All of these affect Lebanon, and are aggravated by the country’s own peculiar socio-political dynamics – i.e., its Maronite, Sunni, and Shia divisions.
The mission must therefore walk a fine line to bridge the country’s communal divisions, which will be possible only with a clear understanding of Lebanon and the wider Middle East.
Similarly, US officials say that more than one-third of Iraqi army divisions are “combat ineffective.”
This cannot be achieved without bridging ideological divisions and overcoming political pressures from particular economic groups.
The row over the Iran deal is bound to be a watershed moment for American Jews, among whom sharp divisions have formed.
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