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Despite this nostalgic policymaking, enactment by the Supreme Rada (Ukraine's Parliament) of civil, criminal, land, family and economic legal codes over the years was something of a near revolution.
He changed a 30-year relationship with Egypt in a week; helped to convince the Egyptian military not to fire on citizens in the first stage of the revolution; assembled and enabled a successful coalition to intervene in Libya; worked closely with Turkey, the European Union, and Saudi Arabia to increase pressure on Syria; cooperated with Egypt to broker a settlement in Yemen; and worked behind the scenes to convince Bahrain’s government to investigate its own violence against Shia protesters.
The IIT graduates, working both in India and America - and especially in partnership between the two countries - surged to the forefront of the information revolution.
The Internet revolution of the past two decades has contributed something like 8% of global GDP and brought three billion users online, narrowing digital, physical, economic, and educational divides.
Likewise, Tunisia’s Ennahda (Renaissance) party was originally shaped by the legacy of the Iranian revolution and the thinking of radical Islamist critics of Western values, such as Sayyid Qutb, a leading Muslim Brotherhood theorist in the 1950s.
The evolutionary won out in West Europe, the revolutionary was adopted by the Soviet Union, under conditions that were very unfavorable to the idea that a large industrial proletariat would support the revolution.
At the time Lenin started his revolution in the Soviet Union, there was a very small proletariat population against a very large agricultural population.
Of course, this won't take place before the 50th anniversary of Mao's revolution this October, but expect it soon afterwards.
Shortly after the Leave camp labeled bureaucrats in her Her Majesty’s Civil Service “enemies of the people” – a typical statement in the early stages of a revolution – pro-Brexit Foreign Trade Minister Liam Fox derided British exporters, calling them “too lazy and too fat” to succeed in his brave new free-trading Britain.
What is happening today in the Arab world is a revolution that may turn out to be for the Middle East the equivalent of what the French Revolution was for Europe in 1789: a profound and radical change that alters completely the situation that prevailed before.
It inspired the Thatcher-Reagan political revolution, which in turn helped to propel a 25-year economic boom from 1982 onward.
Powerful political interests motivated the revolution in economic thinking of the 1970s.
And the market-fundamentalist revolution that he helped to lead against Keynesian economics lasted for 30 years.
We can achieve a world-changing education revolution within a generation.
With that, the legitimate objectives of the revolution that began on January 25, 2011 – inclusive growth, social justice, and human dignity – would prove even more elusive.
Third, faced with chronic economic disorder and political instability, Egyptians increasingly lament the “hijacking” of the revolution, fueling mistrust of the country’s governing elites.
Beginning with the industrial revolution, humans sought energy from coal, and later from oil and natural gas, but this leads to the exhaustion of non-renewable resources.
Impoverished communities in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia are ripe for a “green revolution,” based on modern scientific techniques for managing soils, water, and seed varieties.
This is in line with the so-called Solow computer paradox: productivity gains lag behind technological advances – a notable phenomenon during the digital revolution.
The more troubling potential feature of the AI revolution is that its benefits are not likely to be shared equitably.
Vision and perseverance are essential to make the AI revolution work, because it will bring short-term pain before long-term gains.
This is because the initial quiet period is often marked by corruption and a retreat from revolutionary goals, leading idealists to feel that the revolution is losing its way.
Then, in 1934, resentment against growing corruption led Calles to choose an “honest idealist” to become president, a young man who had fought for him early in the revolution, who he thought he could control but who would help the government regain popularity.
He also took seriously the early goals of the revolution, embarking on massive land reforms.
Yet Mao worried that his revolution was going off track, and in the mid-1960’s he launched an effort to regain control of the Party by educating a new generation of radical youth.
Five decades after its revolution, China is still not a democracy, and Mexico is only just becoming one nine decades after its revolution.
Once such an alliance was shaped, nothing but revolution could stop it – in this case, the Bolshevik revolution.
The Middle East, as we know, is immersed in a process of revolution and upheaval that has been immensely complicated by Islamism and its extremist offshoots.
Mao’s idea of permanent revolution was an aberration in the history of Chinese political thought.
The information revolution changed the world in ways that tariffs cannot reverse.
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