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Germany should be using its political clout to push its European counterparts to seal the deal.
Instead, with the popularity of the country’s two largest political parties, the Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democrats, falling fast, Germany’s leaders are unlikely to push an unpopular deal.
Foreign ministers everywhere, in turn, face crucial policy questions: When a country launches such a political transition, when should other countries help, and what is the best way to do so?
Burma has a very different internal political dynamic, not least because of the complex relationships among its various ethnic and linguistic communities – social cleavages that were not an issue in largely homogeneous Poland’s transition.
Earlier this month, I visited Burma, where I met President Thein Sein and the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as former political prisoners and many other activists.
That consensus will remain credible as long as political reform continues and economic growth accelerates.
Burma’s leadership should respond by releasing all remaining political prisoners and opening up the entire political process.
One general asked me, off the record, “How did you manage to implement such dramatic political changes without bloodshed?”
Perhaps the hardest worry to pin down is what Harvard political theorist Michael Sandel calls "the drive to mastery."
But nuclear issues still struggle for public resonance and political traction.
With only a handful of exceptions, the current generation of political leaders shows little interest in disarmament, and not much more in non-proliferation.
Getting the kind of messages that emerged from the London meeting embedded in public and political consciousness is going to be slow boring through hard boards.
And they must give the ECB the political cover that it needs to do what is required to preserve the system.
Here’s where the political cover comes into play.
But the war in Georgia split the Ukrainian political class three ways, between those who favored alignment with the West, those who favored Russia, and those who preferred a policy of balance.
The political leadership of the Baltic states toughed it out, accepting savage austerity to continue on their path toward euro membership.
This is not to compare Hamas to any of these political forces.
They are an invitation to assert who one is and where one belongs rather than to a competition of well-defined and comprehensive political programs.
There must be certain accepted rules of the political game that are binding on all, so that whoever does not accept or obey them is disqualified.
In short, the global economic crisis has destabilized the ideological divides that have long defined the European political scene and has created new dividing lines.
As anyone remotely familiar with French history knows, the competing forces of revolution and Bonapartism have long driven political outcomes.
The large number of political parties, each with its own platform, is too complicated, so it must be replaced by a short list of a few accepted parties, with one main (and permanent) representation of power.
The view that individual opportunity and heterodoxy should be subordinated to overall predictability empowered the political elite to claim omniscience and cite outside interference as the main threat to Russia’s future.
Driven by these beliefs, a union of “liberals” attempted to bring about a kind of bureaucratic modernization, having convinced themselves that liberal political outcomes could somehow be orchestrated by corrupt bureaucracy through limited democratic institutions.
While science was not initially deemed a threat, within today’s tightly restricted social and political order, it has emerged as a symbol of autonomy and diversity.
Ethnic conflicts in outlying regions will also test Xi’s political control.
China’s drive for economic and political leadership in East Asia, and its increased military capability there, is inevitable.
But what the Arab countries couldn’t do with military support, they were able to do by providing political cover for the military intervention led by the US, Britain, and France.
This is an unusual move, considering the Gulf states’ tradition of treating political disagreements as a family matter, to be handled behind the scenes.
Other GCC states, eager to avoid escalating political tensions in their own countries, are unlikely to declare it a terrorist organization.
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