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The establishment of a Scottish Parliament vested with powers devolved from the United Kingdom Parliament at Westminster has been perhaps the first revolution of the modern era that was conducted by committees of lawyers, clergymen, and accountants rather than cells of bearded radicals.
So it is not surprising that it has also been a revolution that – unlike that which divided Czechoslovakia 14 years ago – falls well short of achieving full statehood for Scotland.
People came from the Baltic countries in the 1940s, Hungary in 1956, Chile after the 1973 coup, and Iran after the 1979 revolution.
Before the 1979 Iranian revolution, some in Israel advocated an alliance between Israel, Turkey, and Iran, the Middle East’s three non-Arab powers.
At home, Sarkozy has aimed his message particularly at the young, issuing a patriotic call to the values of work and discipline, a counter-revolutionary revolution.
The revolution that must be overcome is that of May 1968, whose leaders and supporters, according to Sarkozy, may have lost politically to de Gaulle, but deeply weakened France over the succeeding decades with their emphasis on “false values.”
Others, such as Iran, with its moribund revolution, have never ceased rumbling.
Whereas extraction of America’s extensive reserves of natural gas was previously thought to be unfeasible, technologies such as hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) have ushered in a shale-gas revolution.
The repercussions of this revolution will not be only economic.
The Vagina ChroniclesNEW YORK – Has there really been a sexual revolution?
But, as we should know by now, the next sexual revolution – the one that actually values women as leaders, intellectuals, and sexual beings – is long overdue.
The information-and-communications-technology (ICT) revolution is surely the most powerful single force for economic development in the world today.
The Syrian revolution is essentially a civilian and political rebellion against dictatorship – one that is gradually unraveling Assad’s regime.
Protecting a third of the world’s tuna stocks could be just the start of the global transparency revolution needed to protect our oceans – and our future.
For all the attention that India’s retail revolution, information technology prowess, and booming manufacturing sectors have garnered in recent years, agriculture, on which 70% of the population still directly depends, is in crisis.
This would represent a revolution in Indian politics, but it is hardly the outcome the champions of business-driven market reforms would welcome.
The first industrial revolution so reduced the cost of textiles that it led to a boom in demand, production, and employment.
In such a context, the continent’s agricultural sector could unleash a revolution akin to that fueled by the communications industry.
Chief among them are members of the Eurasia Party, who consider political terror the most effective tool of governance and call for a “new oprichnina” – a staunchly anti-Western Eurasian conservative revolution.
The shale-energy revolution in the US is perhaps the best-known example of this shift, but it is not the only one.
My parents, together with 200,000 Hungarians, left the country after the defeat of the 1956 revolution, and they received asylum in the United States.
After a year of Hollande, France is witnessing a fundamental political revolution.
The neo-classical revolution believed that markets were much more cyclically stable than Keynes believed, that the risks in all market transactions can be known in advance, and that prices will therefore always reflect objective probabilities.
Likewise, I am convinced that the revolution in artificial intelligence will allow computers and robots to do many of the tasks that white-collar workers now do.
Bo Xilai, the son of one of Mao’s comrades and a supposed “immortal” of the revolution, was recently sentenced to life in prison after his conviction on charges of corruption and abuse of power.
These attacks are worsening and expose the limits of Thaksin's electoral revolution, for although the prime minister's party appealed for a popular vote, it lacks a mass membership base.
The threat he now faces is that those who once ardently believed in his revolution will rebel against him.
But we need this wall to tumble if we do not want to miss today’s revolution, which is delivering societies based on knowledge, technology, and information.
This revolution will be tremendously generous to those countries that embrace it – and utterly indifferent, even cruel, to those that ignore it or let it pass by.
Yet it isn’t a revolution.
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