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The death of Slobodan Milosevic has just been followed by Montenegro’s referendum on independence.
Saif never followed up; nor did I.
In other words, would I have followed in the footsteps of several of my Harvard colleagues who traveled to Libya to exchange views with and advise its dictator – and were paid for their services?
Even if Israel’s current war against Gaza is a just war – which is suggested by its attempts at limited and “measured” retaliation after eight years of Hamas rockets followed its unilateral retreat from Gaza – it is therefore a very dirty war, too.
It is a project of such significance and scope that it should quickly be followed up by similar studies in other parts of the world.
And this was followed by willful blindness, as governments refused to recognize that militant Islamic fundamentalism was actually Islamo-fascism, the third global variant of totalitarianism that diehard critics had been decrying for a quarter-century.
The only recent analogy is the collapse of the Soviet bloc, followed by the demise of the Soviet Union itself, in 1989-1991.
Indeed, it is no accident that Henry Kissinger’s masterpiece, A World Restored, was devoted to the study of the recreation of the world order by the Vienna Congress after the rupture of the French Revolution, followed by the Napoleonic adventures.
This lackluster performance, which followed years of decline in market shares, is difficult to explain, given that all other countries on the eurozone periphery recorded solid export growth.
This was followed, in 2003–2004, by heightening security cooperation through the Counter-Terrorism Task Force, as well as the Asian Development Bank’s Trade and Financial Security Initiative.
That move was followed this month by a surprise devaluation of the renminbi, which suggests that the shift away from export-led growth is not working as hoped.
If the EU followed the same playbook in the case of the UK, it would have demanded levels of austerity and bailout loans that would have been politically unacceptable on both sides of the English Channel.
But the tit-for-tat retaliation that has followed the raid reflects deeper sources of mistrust and mutual suspicion.
And that, in turn, would produce financial distress, followed by a crisis if the warning signs were ignored.
The diverse paths followed by Russia and China may be explained in part by how the two peoples perceive themselves.
In Asia, Thailand is ranked the most unequal, followed by Hong Kong in 13th position, and Papua New Guinea, which is ranked 19th.
With both sides showing neither restraint nor compassion, at least 10,000 civilians – possibly as many as 40,000 – died in the carnage that followed, as a result of indiscriminate army shelling, rebel gunfire, and denial of food and medical supplies.
And all of these “improvements” followed dozens of other changes, creating a maelstrom of bureaucracy that strained bandwidth and tested resolve.
The disaster that followed illustrated the damage that an uncontrolled failure can produce.
The UK voted to leave the EU, but Brexit comes in two flavors: membership in the EEA, with access to Europe’s single market and free movement of people, or an exit from the single market, followed by unpredictable trade negotiations.
But, in the past, for better and for worse, others have often followed America’s example.
Other countries that followed America’s lead have experienced growing inequality – more money at the top, more poverty at the bottom, and a weaker middle class.
NATO’s actions in Kosovo followed dramatic and systematic abuse of human rights, culminating in ethnic cleansing on a scale not seen in Europe since World War II.
The conflict in Georgia has been followed by a sharp decline in investor confidence.
In 1992, Switzerland became the first country to include a statement about protecting the dignity of animals in its constitution;Germany followed ten years later.
In his opinion, the underlying “old” patterns of political behavior (some a legacy of the pre-communist era) were temporarily pushed to the background by the wave of pro-Western civic liberalism that followed the collapse of communism in the region.
These twin mistakes – deregulation, followed by misguided monetary-policy tightening – continue to gnaw at the US economy today.
If history is any guide, tightening monetary policy in the near term will only lead to further economic turbulence, followed by a rapid retreat to low interest rates.
The extraordinary political transitions set in motion by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, together with the mundane and drawn-out EU accession process that followed, produced this new normal – one essentially free from the political and economic distortions of the Cold War.
In doing so, it followed the example of Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, who famously warned that Europe would “turn black” if it did not pay him to hold back migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean.
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