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Human rights activists in the United States are calling for legislation that would prevent American companies from engaging in business practices that help repressive regimes stifle democratic movements.
Moreover, the high-quality population data needed for credible estimates may not be available due to their “sensitive nature,” or because they never have been collected (sometimes the case in developing nations), or because refugee movements have made data obsolete.
European leaders should have been much more energetic at the United Nations in opposing America’s hegemonic policy in the Middle East, with its catastrophic effects, including mass displacement and refugee movements.
Second, the hateful and violent ideology fueling these jihadist movements needs to be confronted head-on, regardless of who might be offended.
But, beyond the raucous style common to populists, what do these movements share?
It was not least thanks to the effort of the protest movements that France has now made concessions on both these counts.
That is a task for which non-governmental organizations and protest movements are not well equipped: they can raise public conscience, but they cannot formally commit governments.
By giving Kenyans a platform to voice their dissent, the Nation – led by its journalists – helped protesters articulate the ideas, slogans, and catchphrases that animated their movements.
But the making of Morales as a leader able to combine these three dimensions reflects two institutional reforms in the 1990’s that expanded social participation and opened up opportunities for new leaders and political movements.
While traditional Salafi movements have stayed away from politics, the younger groups see activism and violence as the best means of realizing their goals.
Offering debt relief, it is feared, could undermine the credibility of governing parties and provide a boost to extremist movements.
Both movements now garner only around 20% of support in opinion polls.
As in the second half of the twentieth century, visionary leaders must direct the transformation – and civil-society movements must support them.
And, to keep up with rapidly changing geopolitical conditions, the international community should consider new partnerships in addressing migration and large movements of people.
While riding the crest of the last oil boom in the late 1970’s, Nigeria’s military leaders nationalized the assets of British Petroleum and became champions of pan-African co-operation, financing several African liberation movements.
The British state began to gain greater statutory authority to intervene in and regulate what was previously considered purely private sexual behavior at a time when grassroots movements, from Chartists to feminists to socialists, were clamoring for enfranchisement and greater influence over the distribution of political power and economic resources.
In this they are not entirely dissimilar from the totalitarian leaders of fascist movements, who likewise built on popular frustration to pursue an essentially destructive purpose in the name of anti-modern beliefs and promises.
Bridgewater Associates’ Developed World Populism index surged to its highest point since the 1930s in 2017, factoring in populist movements in the US, the United Kingdom, Spain, France and Italy.
These rejuvenated ghosts take the form of Oskar Lafontaine’s Left Party in Germany, as well as various revolutionary movements in France; one of them has just named itself the Anti-Capitalist Party.
Mainstream parties, desperate to remain relevant, are caught in a vice, forced to choose between pandering to extremism and the risk of being overwhelmed by populist, anti-establishment movements.
These movements’ amorphous nature – often channeled through charismatic leaders – allows each individual to project onto them his or her dreams, making them difficult to counter within the framework of traditional politics.
When tasked with managing territories and governing populations, these movements begin to face the same bothersome logistical and organizational constraints as their rivals.
Leaders of social movements also need to manage the inward and outward flows of information.
No one was happy, and political protest movements gained strength everywhere, including in Germany, where the right-wing, anti-euro Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was born in February 2013.
It turns out that older voters are rather sympathetic to nationalist movements.
Many social movements recognize that language matters because it both reflects and reinforces injustices that need to be remedied.
And, in its latest report, Global Financial Integrity ranked Malaysia second in the world for illicit capital movements, reflecting years of outflows from a massive informal economy tied to corruption.
Short-term flows not only wreak havoc with domestic macroeconomic management, but they also aggravate adverse exchange-rate movements.
Yet something funny happened between these movements’ origins as spontaneous, inclusive street protests and their later success at the ballot box.
Of course, political movements are not necessarily populist in nature.
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