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Indeed, the deep polarization resulting from the Brexit referendum recalls previous episodes that shook up political allegiances and broke up old friendships.
In each of these defining political debates, each side has demonized the other, claiming that the opponent is driven by malice or ignorance.
The result is social tensions, political blockage, and an inability to reform or modernize.
By calling a referendum, Britain has introduced a deep and fundamental conflict into its political sphere.
In the 1990s, when Russia was feeling the pinch of economic reforms, the Russian political provocateur Vladimir Zhirinovsky asked, “Why should we inflict suffering on ourselves?
Both countries face major political and financial difficulties caused by high unemployment and low growth.
I wrote those words with the French political scientist Jacques Rupnik in 1991, just as war was breaking out among Yugoslavia’s successor states.
But what has transformed Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya over the last two years has not been efforts by the outside world to improve these societies or their economies, but grassroots social movements intent on changing their countries’ political systems.
The protesters in Tahrir Square perceived the cause of Egypt’s poverty in its non-responsive, repressive political system, its corrupt government, and the general lack of equality of opportunity in every sphere of their lives.
The genie is out of the bottle, and people know that they have the power to topple governments, and, more generally, that their political activism has consequences.
Though it is ultimately the Egyptian people who will decide the country’s fate, and whether it can finally take decisive steps towards more inclusive political institutions, this does not mean that outsiders can do nothing.
Less than two decades after the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis ravaged the economy and provoked a social and political upheaval that ended President Suharto’s three-decade-long rule, Indonesia is a member of the G-20 and boasts the world’s 15th highest GDP.
For example, Indonesian officials have encouraged reform in Myanmar, helped to bring about an end to the border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia, and pushed for democracy and human rights to be enshrined in an ASEAN political and security community.
What has been missing is political will, sustained public demand, and continuous media scrutiny.
Of course, without universal and coordinated international political, economic, and media support for these brave monks, all development in Burma may quickly be put back nearly 20 years.
Talat has set the presidential election in early 2010 as a deadline for agreement, while Christofias is not without political challenges within his own coalition.
These two leaders have limited political capital, and they need more than their own goodwill to succeed.
Yet it may also indicate that America's political elites are in the process of facing up to new realities and adjusting their view of China accordingly.
There is little hope now that Abe will see tangible returns on the political capital he has invested in cultivating Putin.
To address the political, socioeconomic, and humanitarian challenges fueled by the crisis, the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, chaired by Kofi Annan, recommends urgent and sustained action on a number of fronts to prevent violence, maintain peace, and foster reconciliation.
By the end, we agreed on this much: sustaining Myanmar’s political transition hinges on improving its education sector.
During this fraught period of political transition, inclusive education can help promote a peaceful consolidation of democracy.
Instead, it focuses on the enemy’s society, reaching deep into its territory to destroy political will.
Such organizations often take advantage of states that lack the legitimacy or capacity to administer their own territory effectively, launching a mix of political and armed operations that, over time, give them coercive control over local populations.
In Lebanon in 2006, Hezbollah fought Israel through well-trained cells that combined propaganda, conventional military tactics, and rockets launched from densely populated civilian areas, achieving what many in the region considered a political victory.
For example, one of Macierewicz’s closest business and political associates after 1989 was Robert Lusnia, later found to have served as an informant both during and after the communist period, his recent handlers most likely being agents of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) operating in Poland.
Those fears are testing political leaders in the world's richest countries.
Fear of competition from abroad is now fundamental, and will change the political process in advanced and relatively advanced emerging countries throughout the world.
We talked the terrorist IRA and their political wing into the political process and the sharing of power.
Interestingly, the issue of police reform was the only one that the political parties could not resolve by themselves.
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