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Though some highly unsavory leaders were removed, what followed has been even worse.
During the burst of imperial expansion in Africa that followed national integration and trade liberalization in Europe, colonial powers showed little interest in delineating colonial national boundaries based on cultural or ethnic considerations; they cared only about raw materials and markets.
To be sure, many countries adopted English, French, or Portuguese as their official languages, and European missionaries, who often followed in the colonizers’ footsteps, had success in transmitting their religious practices to local populations.
Caesar’s murder on the Ides of March was followed by a revolt that destroyed, once and for all, the power of the ruling classes.
Sporadic acts of collective violence, followed by equally violent oppression, suggest that many are not.
The change followed Ayatollah Khomeini’s theory of the “jurist-ruler.”
From Constitutional Crisis to European CrisisSince the shock of the French and Dutch “no” votes against the European Union’s proposed Constitutional Treaty, events have followed their inevitable course, but more rapidly than expected.
Beginning in the eighteenth century, the less-developed West European and East Asian countries followed their more successful neighbors: emulating a flying-geese pattern, they benefited from the leaders’ tailwind as they first industrialized and then became advanced countries themselves.
Merkel followed those words with action.
Xi’s first significant international initiatives – making Russia his first official visit abroad, followed immediately by his attendance at the BRICS summit in South Africa – suggest that China may be seeking to place its relations with the world’s most powerful emerging countries on a par with its US diplomacy.
The Kosovo War was followed by the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which occurred without the support of the Security Council, and in the case of Iraq, despite vigorous objections within it.
The blogger, Zhao Jing, had been reporting on a strike by journalists at The Beijing News that followed the dismissal of the newspaper’s independent-minded editor.
The four countries rank exactly in inverse order of their government spending shares (according to both 2009 and pre-crisis 2007 data), with the US highest, followed by Canada, the UK, and France.
The relative histories have followed a similar trend (again, other factors are involved, not just taxes and spending).
Instead, Argentina suffered stagflation in 2016, followed by a debt-based recovery in 2017.
But an even more fundamental reservation should have followed, because Afghanistan is more of a concept – a polyglot entity of various ethnic groups – than a functioning state.
The period ended with the depression of 1893-96, and was followed by the major political reforms of the Progressive Era.
Since negotiations must be followed by ratification in all the member states, and since ratification can be assumed to take at least one year, and possibly two, this implies that the first new members cannot expect to join before 2004 or even 2005.
Today, deCODE followed essentially the same gene-mapping approach worked out in the fruit fly, one which could never have been discovered if humans were the only subjects studied.
Civil war, motivated by ethnic and religious divisions, followed.
A plausible alternative explanation is simply that the major powers realized, after the experience of World War II (and given all of the rapid technological advances that followed), that the damage inflicted by any war would be unbelievably horrific, far outweighing any conceivable benefit.
The danger is that, without transparency, the erosion people now sense in their private lives will be followed by a silent erosion of the legitimacy of the social policy as well.
Indeed, the countries with the highest fertility rates are predominantly Muslim, led by Niger, with 7.6 live births per woman, followed by Somalia with 6.7, and Chad with 6..
These reforms were followed by a gradual opening to the global economy, a process that accelerated in the early 1990s.
The mayhem of the Second World War was followed by more than 40 years of Communist dictatorship in Central and Eastern Europe.
Yet this abhorrence of nepotism was illogical – and Lee was generally nothing if not logical, even ruthlessly so – because in this case a perfectly good justification for it followed smoothly from his own analysis of Singapore.
The ongoing drama of mass demonstrations, violence, torture and repression that followed June’s fraudulent election has exposed a fundamental conflict within the Iranian power elite about the basic course of the Islamic Republic.
Numerous successful national liberation movements in Asia, Africa, and Latin America followed.
Other autocratic regimes in the region, with larger populations and less oil – such as Iraq, Egypt, Algeria, and Syria – followed a “republican strategy” that appeased the poor with various forms of patronage, and repressed economic elites.
Viewed from this perspective, Prince Mohammed’s current anti-corruption campaign will need to be followed by efforts to establish more inclusive rules for the private sector.
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