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Meanwhile, Algeria, often touted as the next country that would get swept up by the Arab Spring, seems to have taken a different tack, favoring a slightly modified status quo over full-blown revolution.
Indeed, although protests began on December 29, 2010, and went so far as a wave of self-immolations in January 2011, the spark of revolution faded after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was wise enough not to stifle unrest with force, made concessions – including, most importantly, an end to the 19-year state of emergency.
There are still no nano-scale products on the market, but governments around the world are betting huge research budgets on the power of nanotechnology to transform the world as profoundly as the microelectronics revolution.
Drexler is the Chairman of the Foresight Institute, which is dedicated to preparing the world for the nanotechnology revolution.
Likewise, while Egypt is in the midst of a messy revolution, and must give priority to internal change, it also intends to regain a more visible and influential role within the Palestinian national movement(s) and in the region as a whole.
The second conceptual revolution was started by molecular biology.
Moreover, the shale-gas revolution in the US that took off in 2007-2008 promises to reduce energy costs considerably.
The founder of the rational expectations revolution, Robert Lucas, is endlessly quoted as having stated in 2003 in his presidential address to the American Economic Association that the “central problem of depression-prevention has been solved, for all practical purposes, and has in fact been solved for many decades.”
The civilizing efforts that Ataturk’s revolution directed inward and in favor of disengagement from the Arab and Muslim worlds are now being revisited.
The Islamic revolution in Iran, the changes in Ethiopia following the end of Haile Selassie’s rule, the collapse of Maronite Lebanon, and Hezbollah’s takeover of that country left Turkey as the last remaining member of Israel’s Alliance of the Periphery.
Theirs is not a revolution; it is cocaine-crazed nihilism.
Revolutionary ShadowsVIENNA – What happens after the euphoria of revolution fades?
Ahmadinejad is a representative of the younger activists in the anti-Shah revolution of a quarter-century ago.
Second, the same group that has been in control ever since the revolution will basically continue to run ideological and foreign policy.
Brexit constitutes a revolution, and that means it is bound to follow a familiar historical pattern.
To be sure, the Brexit revolution has been unfolding in a country with little revolutionary tradition.
But the logic of revolution makes such reversals impossible.
“This realm of England,” the law states, “is an Empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one Supreme Head and King…” But as is always the case, the measures that launched the revolution were incomplete.
But they did pave the way for religious reformers to carry the revolution into its next phase.
Would the revolution follow the teachings of Luther, Zwingli, or Calvin, or would it embrace an even more radical vision?
Counter-revolution, however, requires just as radical an approach as does revolution.
More often than not, those who start the revolution are eventually devoured by it.
But so were many Western communitarians and few people in the West realized that their counterparts in Eastern Europe read Hayek's "spontaneous order" and communitarian ideas of membership in local communities in ways that did not sit well with the model of democratic revolution envisaged by the West.
Inasmuch as illiberal – and especially personal – regimes are considered the least stable, the logical conclusion is that the “color revolution” scenario that we observed in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan is likely to repeat itself in Russia.
But I think that there is more wishful thinking than hardheaded logic among those calling for a “color revolution.”
The situation in Russia is far from identical to that which prevailed in, say, Ukraine at the time of last year’s “orange” revolution.”
Their red and brown revolution would certainly be colorful, but not exactly the sunny outcome liberals profess to desire.
Liberals should face up to grim reality: Russia already had an “orange” revolution, in 1991, and the results were not particularly impressive.
Alexis de Toqueville claimed that unfulfilled hopes lie at the basis of every revolution, that every revolution is engendered by disillusion caused by exaggerated expectations.
That can happen with anyone, but it is still no reason for revolution, which is always better wished on someone else than on yourself.
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