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On the contrary, Pakistan’s liberals are brave to agitate for democracy, the rule of law, and accountability for Musharraf, whose presidency appears beyond rehabilitation.
But Trump’s is no ordinary US presidency, so we all have a responsibility to consider the implications of the White House’s ideological about face from traditional democratic and Western thinking for our own countries.
It is far too soon to say what, exactly, Trump’s presidency will mean for Asia.
In 2016, it began to promote the idea of a “principled security network” in Asia – a tagline that is unlikely to survive Trump’s presidency.
Though he hoped to return to writing, the revolution catapulted him to the presidency of Czechoslovakia, and, after the country split in 1993, he was elected President of the new Czech Republic, serving until 2003.
Although Klaus never returned as Prime Minister, his “pragmatic” approach gained the upper hand in Czech politics, especially after Havel’s departure from presidency in 2003.
As I heard Bill Clinton say privately, shortly after his presidency, that choice should not be “to try to stay top dog on the global block in perpetuity, but to create a world in which we are comfortable living when we are no longer top dog on the global block.”
Despite these perceptions – or perhaps precisely because of them – Rowhani’s presidency offers an unexpected opportunity for both the nuclear negotiations and a political solution in Syria.
He has ascended the throne of the Byzantine emperors on the Holy Mount Athos in Greece, and portrayed his perpetual presidency as a burden he must carry, in service to his country and his people.
For once, the faltering Czech presidency of the EU reflected a European consensus when it defined Obama’s astronomic financial stimulus as a “road to hell.”
How Obama LeadsCAMBRIDGE – Two years ago, Barack Obama was a first-term senator from a mid-western state who had declared his interest in running for the presidency.
His presidency paved the way for hers, but she is a leader in her own right.
In 1991, when the Netherlands held the European presidency, Belgium supported its far-reaching draft for a treaty of European Union.
The French have a long tradition of respecting the privacy of their politicians’ personal lives, and French public opinion is more broad-minded than in the United States, where an unwed mother of four would have no chance of being nominated for the presidency by a major party.
To this day, Mitt Romney is convinced that he lost the presidency in 2012 because Barack Obama unfairly gave Latino-Americans subsidized health insurance; gave women free reproductive health coverage (excluding abortion); and gave other groups similar “gifts.”
But that does not necessarily mean that the final two years of Barack Obama’s presidency need to be defined by stalemate and mutual recrimination.
Consequently, some analysts suspect a “hidden opposition vote,” such as occurred in Nicaragua in 1990, when Violeta Chamorrro won the presidency, or in Mexico in 2000, when Vicente Fox emerged victorious.
After all, the US presidency is a quasi-monarchical institution, as well as a political one.
But now Marwan Barghouti, Fatah’s leader in the West Bank during the current Intifada, has decided to contest Abbas for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority (PA) from his Israeli jail cell.
Hamas has declared that it will not nominate its own candidate for the PA presidency.
Donald Trump’s campaign for the US presidency will receive a huge boost, as will other anti-immigrant populist politicians.
This unpopularity opened the way for a return to the presidency of Ion Iliescu, the Ceausescu-era apparatchik who ruled Romania during the first, wasted years of our postcommunist transition.
Was Constantinescu’s presidency a total failure?
Although much more could have been accomplished during Contstantinescu’s presidency, hard reforms were enacted but, as in Poland and Hungary half-a-decade ago, growth arrived too late to save its architects from electoral defeat.
Unreformed apparatchiks surround Iliescu; they will enjoy the prestige of the presidency in any power struggle over policy.
Obama’s presidency is coming to an end, the Republicans are poised to regain control of the Senate in November’s mid-term election, and Democrats are increasingly reticent to be viewed as “soft on Iran.”
But whether he can succeed in the long term with his unconventional approach is one of the great questions facing his presidency.
Kim has set such a low bar for the Bank presidency that it would not be difficult to find a better candidate.
The drift in transatlantic relations during the eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency was meant to be stopped – and even reversed.
And, not even 100 days into his presidency, he had issued an order for people to be killed in Syria while gushing about “the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake you’ve ever seen.”
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