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The Pakistani Mecca of TerrorBERLIN – Almost seven decades after it was created as the first Islamic republic of the postcolonial era, Pakistan is teetering on the edge of an abyss.
The meaning was clear to all: Weimar Russia, like Weimar Germany, signified a weak republic attacked from within by nationalists yearning to restore authoritarian ways.
According to this nationalist narrative, Serbia had been forced to accept that it was just one republic among six, even though Serbs, who were spread out across Yugoslavia, comprised almost half of the country’s total population.
Nonetheless, rather than indulging in simplistic fantasies – such as the potential “Balkanization” of Syria, and the possible reemergence of an Alawite breakaway republic – policymakers must recognize the true basis of Syria’s power structure.
It could not even subdue Chechnya, a small republic within the Russian federation.
This, truly, was a victory for the republic – a triumph of popular resistance.
On the contrary, a sufficient number of voters came to understand that in that very anger – in its spokespeople and in the words used to express it – lurked a threat to the republic, to democracy, and to the nation’s fundamental values.
For what will be needed to hold the territory that the republic nearly lost to the FN is political courage of a sort that, for the moment, is in short supply.
Indeed, the old socialist economic birdcage has now been largely burst by China's capitalist reforms, releasing with a vengeance a mutant "people's republic" into the global marketplace of consumerism.
But it would also mean abandoning France’s republic in favor of a federal European government – anathema to that “certain idea of France.”
In the aftermath of World War II, when the Austrian republic was struggling to establish itself as a democracy, it was reasonable, as a temporary emergency measure, for Austrian democrats to suppress Nazi ideas and propaganda.
The Fourth Republic is supposed to be republican, rather than liberal, with greater state involvement in the economy.
The notion of a Fourth Republic incites heated opposition.
As a result, there will be room for myriad favors for special interests and for boosting social benefits, which may buy time for the PiS and its vision of a Fourth Republic.
Yet the strong link between the fate of the coalition (and that of the Fourth Republic) and a fickle electorate addicted to social benefits will block the serious reforms that are needed to put the economy on a sound footing in the long term.
Korea remained known to much of the American public mostly as a war, even though it had long since become a successful republic, with a thriving economy whose products and brand names had begun to penetrate world markets.
They are prepared to discuss a constitution according to which they remain within the Russian Federation, but with a great deal of local autonomy, such as the republic of Tartarstan enjoys.
While the republic established in 1912 was ostensibly a single entity, it was actually highly fragmented.
Chinese policies in the region, together with the Chinese delegation leader’s behavior at the event itself, drove the president of Nauru – the world’s smallest republic, with just 11,000 inhabitants – to condemn China’s “arrogant” presence in the South Pacific.
Immediately after the breakup of the USSR, Russia’s leadership seemed to accept the liberation of former soviet republic from Moscow’s orbit.
In Chechnya, we are seeing the tactics Russia has developed against the newly independent states utilized against a republic of the Russian Federation.
In an Arab-dominated Middle East, non-Arab Iran is the natural enemy; but in a Muslim Middle East, the Islamic republic of Iran is a potential hegemon.
Third, there is the difference between those who adhere to the tradition of political Islam and those who uphold the strict secularism that came with the republic.
Will it be a federated republic?
A rapid American disengagement might ultimately cause the country’s disintegration into fragmented political entities, one of which would likely be an Iran-controlled Islamic republic.
It remains a republic with solid intellectual potential and hardworking manpower.
The Islamic republic does have a veneer of democracy and a wide variety of opinions even among the ruling mullahs.
Chechnya's neighboring republic, Dagestan, is witnessing increasing confrontations between radical and traditional Islamic groups, something now also seen in Kabardino-Balkaria.
France is a marvelously paradoxical country, so the search for novelty, if not modernity, could lead to the reinvention of the Fourth Republic, a parliamentary regime characterized by its weaknesses and instability.
Thanks to low interest rates, Rahmon can continue to misrule his former Soviet republic as he sees fit.
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