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After the first turbulent and murderous years of the Iranian revolution, the last few years have shown some remarkable developments.
But anyone who knows European history can identify a parallel: the Calvinist, Puritan revolution.
The aftermath of an unanticipated revolution will itself present surprises.
The prosperity of the first age of globalization before 1914, for example, resulted from a successful constellation of developments: falling transport and communication costs, the technological breakthroughs of the second industrial revolution, the pacific state of international relations, and Great Britain’s successful management of the gold standard.
Besides, even if bombing ISIS strongholds in Iraq or Syria makes military sense, it won’t break the spell of Islamist revolution for frustrated, bored, and marginalized young people in French slums.
His generation confronted the scourge of domestic terrorism and witnessed revolution in Iran, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the rise of Solidarity in Poland.
From attacks against Western governments to ethnic clashes in remote desert oases, Libya’s revolution is faltering.
If the Libyan revolution is to succeed, the country’s new leaders must make a clean break with the spirit of the past.
Indeed, the revolution was never a smooth affair.
After an eight-month revolution that devastated the country, Libyans are demanding real reforms.
Before Tunisia’s revolution, for example, 500,000 of its labor force of 3.6 million were unemployed, and that number has since risen to 700,000.
Suitably adapted, such mechanisms could also dramatically expand off-grid renewable-energy solutions across rural economies, providing reliable energy to billions of people and triggering a new green revolution in the countryside.
Today, the industry is in the throes of a new revolution – this time transforming service quality.
The real technological breakthrough was the shale-energy revolution.
As Harvard’s Meghan O’Sullivan points out in her smart new book Windfall, the shale revolution has a number of implications for US foreign policy.
The shale revolution has changed that, demonstrating the combination of entrepreneurship, property rights, and capital markets that constitute the country’s underlying strength.
In that sense, the shale revolution has also enhanced American soft power.
America’s ability to use oil sanctions to force Iran to negotiate an end to its nuclear-weapons program depended not only on Saudi willingness to make up Iran’s exports of a million barrels per day, but also on the general expectations that the shale revolution created.
But the disruptions are unlikely to be sharp or long-lasting in the wake of the shale revolution, which is what makes it a geopolitical revolution as well.
But I will not forgo sharing my opinion of this monthly, to which, during the 1974-1975 Portuguese revolution, I submitted one of my first dispatches, but which today retains nothing of Le Monde except shareholders, nothing diplomatic except the word, and nothing respectable except the memory of its distant founders.
Some go so far as to argue that the recent rise of the lower castes in northern Indian politics and the implementation of reservations by the central government amount to a silent revolution, and that the politics of caste is secular and a bulwark against religious sectarianism.
Billed as a “free-market” revolution, because it promised to reduce the role of government, in practice it was the beginning of an assault on the middle class and the poor by wealthy special interests.
America offered Iran on a silver platter strategic assets that Khomeini’s revolution failed to acquire either in eight years of war against Saddam or in its abortive attempts to export the Islamic revolution throughout the region.
China and Europe might find common cause in the vacuum left as America’s domestic energy revolution weakens its commitment to the region.
Americans may not be entirely satisfied with their leaders, but the country is certainly not on the brink of an Arab Spring-style revolution.
But, as the conservative author David Frum notes, over the last two decades, the US has experienced a swift decline in crime, auto fatalities, alcohol and tobacco consumption, and emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, which cause acid rain – all while leading an Internet revolution.
Morsi’s decision on November 22 to grant himself absolute authority for the spurious purpose of defending the revolution is not new for Egypt.
The US economy’s road to recovery is being built on the shale-gas revolution, a revived manufacturing sector, and a decline in the US budget deficit in GDP terms.
In the nineteenth century, research at America’s government-supported universities provided the basis for the agricultural revolution.
If managed and supported properly, Africa’s renewables revolution could create jobs far beyond the energy sector itself.
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