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Across the Middle East, as elsewhere, expectations are building that his presidency will herald a new era for America’s role in the world.
Van Rompuy will be able to offer a longer view than that of a six-month national presidency.
More important, his presidency began a “revolution” from the political right – against the poor, the environment, and science and technology – that lasted for three decades, its tenets upheld, more or less, by all who followed him: George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and, in some respects, by Obama in his first term.
In 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad relied on Khamenei’s financial and political support to win the presidency.
With the Czech Republic set to assume the presidency of the EU on January 1, 2009, there is a distinct fear that Klaus will use his position as Czech head of state to try to sabotage efforts to rescue the Lisbon Treaty.
And then in 2012, a belligerent Putin – the one who would later invade Ukraine – rallied his supporters on Moscow’s Poklonnaya Gora plaza, overcame mass protests, and returned to the presidency.
The delegates could establish rules for a transitional period comprising the last two years of Putin’s presidency, after which Russia would enter a new political era.
After winning the presidency, Chen could have risen above theatrics by focusing on two Taiwanese strengths: its economy and its unbroken humanist Chinese cultural tradition.
Chen’s record suggests he will hang on to his failed presidency.
So today, instead of asking whether American institutions will survive the Trump presidency, we must ask how American institutions can be put in the service of wrongful ends.
Interestingly, there was some discussion under the French presidency about reforming the so-called Athena Mechanism, which is the means used to determine the amount that each EU member state contributes to the common costs of a mission.
In Mexico, the presidency is up for grabs.
Between the financial crisis of 2008 and the political crisis of 2016 came the presidency of Barack Obama.
After all, a majority of Mexicans appear to be disenchanted with his presidency.
Current Commission President José Manuel Barroso suggests that ideologically like-minded political parties running in the next European Parliament elections should intensify their cooperation in political “families” that would then jointly nominate candidates for the Commission presidency.
Famously, few people know who even holds Switzerland’s annually rotating presidency.
Obama’s rhetoric during his 2008 campaign and the first months of his presidency was both inspirational in style and transformational in objective.
Obama needed to meet his promise to set a new direction in foreign policy while simultaneously managing to juggle the issues left to him by George W. Bush, any of which, if dropped, could still cause a crisis for his presidency.
Europe is vulnerable on many fronts, particularly in view of its dependence on Russian energy, while America’s weakened presidency has diminished US influence in Russia.
Despite the Spitzenkandidat experiment, under which European top-runners were supposed to compete for the most important EU job – the presidency of the European Commission – voters did not feel mobilized.
The question is whether key HDZ leaders prefer losing the presidency (and that is where real power in Croatia lies) to Granic's ascending the throne.
The Commission presidency is no doubt an important job.
Unfortunately, Khamenei thought so, too, and made sure that Ahmadinejad held onto his presidency.
Still, rather than dwell on Trump’s bizarre behavior, we would do well to remember that today’s global developments predate his presidency.
Reagan won the presidency on promises to rebuild US power, which he claimed had been declining precipitously.
In contrast with Mexico’s authoritarian past, when an “imperial presidency” constituted a major obstacle to modernization, power has been dispersed.
Zardari and his close political associates have shown little respect for the constitution or the rule of law throughout his presidency.
Yet none of this will be as destabilizing for Germany as a Le Pen presidency in France.
It’s an old story: Napoleon III, for example, used such a vote to reconstitute his elected presidency into the imperial title his uncle, Napoleon Bonaparte, had held.
A key feature of Trump’s presidency has been his desire to ingratiate himself with guests by offering what he cannot deliver (as he did during a recent meeting with congressional Democrats on immigration).
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