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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.
But the United States and the United Kingdom then underwent a kind of conservative revolution and a revival of neoliberal economic policies, including widespread deregulation, trade liberalization, and unprecedented capital-account openness.
This leaves unification as the last tie to Mao's revolution and justification for one-party rule.
Two recent books – Identity Economics by Nobel laureate George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton and The Moral Economy by Sam Bowles – indicate that a quiet revolution is challenging the foundations of the dismal science, promising radical changes in how we view many aspects of organizations, public policy, and even social life.
As with the rise of behavioral economics (which already includes six Nobel laureates among its leaders), this revolution emanates from psychology.
The behavioral economics revolution questioned the idea that we are good at making these judgments.
The new revolution may have been triggered by an uncomfortable finding of the old one.
The new revolution assumes that when we make choices, we do not merely consider which of the available options we like the most.
The new revolution in economics may find a place for strategies based on affecting ideals and identities, not just taxes and subsidies.
If successful, the new revolution may lead to strategies that make us more responsive to our better angels.
Outside Europe, the GM green revolution holds more stark implications.
Since the "green revolution" was beginning, Iraq imported "wonder wheat" from Mexico.
Iran has been using such tactics since 1979, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took power and began exporting his Islamist revolution across the Muslim world.
Central Europe’s Unsentimental EducationBUDAPEST – This month marks the 20th anniversary of the reburial of Imre Nagy, the leader of Hungary’s failed anti-Soviet revolution of 1956.
But democratic transformation in Hungary required an opposition strategy throughout the 1980’s: revolution wouldn’t work, as the Soviet invasion in 1956 showed.
The 1956 revolution was a real one, with barricades.
Kenya's Mau Mau war delivered independence in 1963; the Algerian revolution liberated that country in 1962; anti-colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau destroyed the Portuguese empire in 1974; the anti-UDI struggle in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) ended white rule; and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa finally triumphed against the apartheid racial order.
This revolution in the internalities of our existence, which is unpredictable in its scope and uncertain in its direction, is taking place in a setting of deepening division in the material existence of humanity.
The revolution in transport and communications, we hear, has vaporized borders and shrunk the world.
As the philosopher Peter Singer has put it, the communications revolution has spawned a “global audience” that creates the basis for a “global ethics.”
After the 2011 revolution, it pursued a consensual, inclusive process to develop a new social contract that upholds all of its people’s individual and collective rights.
The United Kingdom has been reluctant to join the hydraulic-fracturing (or fracking) revolution.
And, when Russia suppressed two “color” revolutions – the Polish revolt of 1830-1831 and the Hungarian revolution of 1848-1849 – it became even deeper.
The world has a choice: either accept the status quo, which deprives millions of girls of their basic rights, or support a girl revolution, enabling girls pursue their dreams, while helping to end poverty, fuel prosperity, and drive progress.
Policymakers should maintain close collaboration with the technologists and entrepreneurs leading the revolution, lest they fall behind.
In the United States, a shale-gas revolution transformed energy geopolitics, as US dependence on foreign oil and gas vanished virtually overnight.
The diversity of options allowed widespread adoption, paving the way for the digital revolution.
Moreover, the transfer and diffusion of technology has been facilitated greatly over the last few decades by increased foreign direct investment, the information revolution, which has facilitated access to knowledge, increased trade, and the globalization of financial markets.
The technological revolution wrought by recombinant DNA was not remotely the sort of “inexorable, evolutionary progress” envisioned by Ridley.
As Time magazine proclaimed in May 1987, with the discovery of these so-called “cuprates,” the superconducting revolution had begun.
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