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But those who believe that the CCP can defy both the internal degenerative dynamics of autocracy and the historical record of failed one-party regimes might benefit from reading Leon Trotsky, who knew something about revolutions.
Violent revolutions can reach peaceful resolutions, but such an outcome is less likely where deep, unresolved sectarian grievances are in play, as they are in the Middle East.
The success of the various “color revolutions” in former Soviet-bloc countries also ignited change in Moldova, where President Vladimir Voronin launched reforms aimed at moving closer to the EU.
Thus, the rise of the social-welfare state was a response (often of market-oriented liberal democracies) to the threat of popular revolutions, socialism, and communism as the frequency and severity of economic and financial crises increased.
Then came the post-1980 revolutions in trade theory.
They believe that Russia has inherited a cultural DNA that transcends revolutions, as if some kind of vicious gene was driving the Kremlin’s current imperialist aggression in Ukraine (and, if Putin’s threats are to be believed, Kazakhstan may soon be next).
As the Agricultural Age faded, a whole new vocabulary was invented, and the world became familiar with terms like steam pressure, revolutions per minute, and assembly lines.
Less than ten years after Herzl’s death, however, it did collapse in the carnage, nationalisms, revolutions and counterrevolutions of the Great War and its aftermath.
For example, the economic historian Robert Gordon argues that today’s innovations pale in contrast to past technological revolutions in terms of their likely economy-wide impact.
The Arab World’s Triple CrisisLONDON – Economic want and inequality, as much as political repression, incited the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions.
After the Arab Spring revolutions, for example, Egypt and Tunisia were expected to achieve comprehensive transformation within months.
Revolutions demand moral clarity and unshakeable conviction.
The US may be cautious about overextending itself in the Middle East, but that reflects its experience with the costly invasion of Iraq and the general turmoil of the Arab Spring revolutions, rather than illusions that shale produces political “energy independence.”
As MIT’s Andrew McAfee pointed out, historically, technological revolutions have “eventually led to more, if different, jobs”; but, with machines becoming increasingly intelligent, “this time may be different.”
Government laid the foundations of the Internet and the modern biotechnology revolutions.
The Morocco OptionRABAT – Three years after the Arab Spring revolutions, the democratic world appears more confused than ever about how to respond.
Three years after the start of their revolutions, neither country has been able to draft a broadly acceptable constitution.
It may well involve revolutions in bio-, nano-, and digital technology, together with a social-networking revolution that eliminates geographical and cultural barriers.
For example, the Arab Spring uprisings of 2010-2011, which produced a massive wave of refugees, were triggered by a rise in wheat prices, which led to widespread bread riots that morphed into broader political revolutions.
Moreover, Obama has dramatically increased America’s presence in Asia, including signing a Treaty of Amity and Cooperation with ASEAN and joining the East Asia Summit, and moved quickly and flexibly in response to the revolutions across the Middle East.
Were the moral overtones of dealing with the Qaddafis so obvious before the Arab revolutions spread to Libya?
He was Undersecretary of Political Affairs in 1989 during the Polish and Central European revolutions, overseeing and spearheading US assistance.
The Diplomacy of the BlindPARIS – Why do revolutions so often take professional diplomats by surprise?
By looking at earlier revolutions, we can perhaps come to understand what is happening in Iran, for recent events there have clear historical precedents.
Many revolutions have passed through an initial “quiet” period after an early phase of radicalism, only to experience a resurgence of radicalism 15-25 years later.
All revolutions carry unintended costs, and are susceptible to diversion, if not outright corruption.
The West has supported in a variety of ways democratic movements in the post-Soviet region, hardly hiding its enthusiasm for the various “color” revolutions that have replaced long-standing dictators with more responsive leaders – though not all have turned out to be the committed democrats they pretended to be.
Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible make violent revolutions inevitable.
He even commissioned a study for the UN to analyze why “green revolutions” – agricultural reforms in Asia and Latin America that lifted millions out of poverty and accelerated economic transformations – had bypassed Africa.
Wars and revolutions may erupt, and values like human rights and civil liberties could be undermined.
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