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Its economic punishments range from restricting imports or informally boycotting goods from a targeted country to halting strategic exports (such as rare-earth minerals) and encouraging domestic protests against specific foreign businesses.
But it also triggered civil war and regional turmoil (including ongoing Shia protests in Bahrain).
These protests will flare up again and again until the series will end in early 1996.
Yet it revealed, at the same time, the limited effect of international protests directed against legitimate governments: the protests aimed at stopping the tests; however, if they were successful, it would have endanger the very progress it has produced.
For those organizing the protests against the current French test series, it is difficult, even impossible, to admit the basic truth that their short-term aim contradicts what must be their long-term objective: a world in which there are fewer nuclear weapon states and in which national sovereignty is curtailed.
Hence the effort to nail down the concessions that the protests have extracted, the hour of governments has arrived.
Despite some expected protests, the new anti-terrorism legislation enjoys wide support among the French, who seem willing to accept certain limitations to personal freedoms in the name of collective security.
Anti-corruption protests have continued throughout the year.
These are not just isolated protests against specific policies that harm their particular interests; demonstrations now involve a broad cross-section of society, including, most crucially, the region’s emerging middle class.
If the region’s political and business leaders add their voices to the protests against corruption, Latin America can achieve a definitive break with the past, ensuring that all citizens can count on the fair implementation of the rule of law to enable everyone to reach their full potential.
NGOs, for example, are already having a major impact, implementing educational programs and even staging protests to raise awareness of the environmental challenges we face.
For starters, the Israeli middle class and younger voters took the social protests of the summer of 2011 into the ballot box.
If Netanyahu thought that he had managed to take the steam out of the protests over high housing prices and falling living standards, he was proved wrong.
Mass street protests have started – not led by opposition political parties but by workers and middle-class families facing job losses and declining wages.
Street protests against the import duties became the first serious popular uprising that Russia has seen in many years.
Many Chinese, however, came to view pro-Tibetan protests in Paris, London, San Francisco, Delhi, and elsewhere as an effort to sabotage the Olympics and keep China down after almost two centuries of perceived national humiliation.
The Chinese ship containing arms for the reviled Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe is finally headed home after protests and global condemnation prevented it from delivering its cargo.
If the Olympics turn out to be a public relations disaster – because of potential protests by Tibetan, Uighur, or Falun Gong activists or supporters, a lockdown in China of foreign journalists, or even doping scandals – there is a real chance that the Chinese will blame the West, particularly America.
Indeed, we know more about the arrests made after the Tiananmen protests of 1989 than about those arrested today.
Riots and political protests would have broken out earlier, too.
Riots and protests in some developing countries are just the worst manifestation of this.
These so-called "wars" are part of the same conflict that prompted the peasant blockades of September 2000, the continuing protests by coca growers against efforts to eradicate their crops because of their role in the cocaine trade, and the withdrawal earlier this year of a progressive tax project.
For example, aid financiers should require that security forces hired to oversee a project, or who respond to project-related protests, are properly trained and strictly observe international standards on managing public assemblies.
Egypt’s Economic SirenNEWPORT BEACH – Facing a turbulent political situation and recurrent street protests, Egypt’s political elite would be well advised to focus on the economic implications of the current turmoil, whether they are in government or in opposition.
Fourth, repeated street protests, combined with a weak police force, fuel small pockets of criminal activity.
Venezuela’s Freedom FightersGENEVA – After months of violence and anti-government protests, Venezuela is approaching the political precipice.
Not surprisingly, then, the most innovative political experiments in Europe in recent years have emerged from street protests and mass assemblies that eschewed hierarchical forms of organization.
Yet something funny happened between these movements’ origins as spontaneous, inclusive street protests and their later success at the ballot box.
Protests have already toppled governments in Tunisia and Egypt, leaving other Arab countries faced with widespread discontent.
Before the protests began in Egypt and Tunisia, many people argued that there was no real urgency to political reform, and that those who were calling for change did not understand the public mood – things weren’t as bad as the dissidents made them out to be.
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