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The Battle for BahrainMANAMA - The fervor for change that inspired revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt is now rocking Bahrain.
Napoleon’s armies, unleashed by the French Revolution’s mass political awakening, set off paroxysms of counter-mobilization that fueled the European revolutions of 1830 and 1848.
Indeed, he even praised the democratic movements that buried the Soviet Union and its sphere of influence, and he expressed no sympathy for the twentieth century’s revolutions, which he called “deep wounds” that humanity inflicted on itself.
Of course, even looking at these countries entails selection bias, for it excludes countries without price data for much of the twentieth century, notably China and Russia, where communist revolutions terminated the stock markets, resulting in -100% returns for investors.
The return of hardliners after the ascendancy of moderates is a little-understood but fairly typical feature of twentieth-century revolutions.
Ukraine is undergoing a true liberal revolution, akin to the great European liberal revolutions of 1848, and reminiscent of Prague’s Velvet revolution of 1989.
This is important to bear in mind, because rising food prices have historically been the trigger for political revolutions.
The three revolutions that made the modern world, in France, Russia, and China, all had their immediate origins in food shortages, fear of hunger, and disputes about food pricing.
Simultaneous revolutions swept Europe in 1848, in the aftermath of crop failures whose most notorious manifestation was the Irish famine.
Democratic revolutions from Warsaw to Sofia were toppling Eastern Europe’s Communist dictatorships, symbolized in the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, which once divided Germany’s former and future capital.
Allah goes on to argue that these revolutions did more than just topple regimes like Mubarak’s.
Nevertheless, the Arab Spring revolutions did undermine the pillars of the regional status quo, whose construction and maintenance the Kingdom had underwritten with its petrodollars.
But is the particular relationship between church and state at the time of the French and American Revolutions the model that Europe wishes to propagate in the rest of the world today?
The Arab Revolutions’ Reality CheckBERLIN – Two years after popular uprisings began to convulse the Middle East, few people speak of an “Arab Spring” anymore.
Normally, revolutions are followed by dangerous times.
Central and Eastern Europe after 1989, though a very interesting reference point for analysts of the Arab revolutions, is not an appropriate reference point, because the region’s new domestic and foreign order resulted from the change in external conditions stemming from the collapse of Soviet power.
Although some of Bush’s defenders try to credit him with the “Arab Spring” revolutions, the primary Arab participants reject such arguments.
West Europeans did not seem concerned that early enlargement eastward might speed the consolidation of the region's democratic revolutions.
Indeed, it reflects an understanding of the frustrations that have driven a global wave of popular protests in recent years – protests that, in the Arab world, sparked actual revolutions.
Do the revolutions across the Arab world presage the glory days of summer, or a passage through a bleak winter?
LONDON – The unexpected visibility and assertiveness of women in the revolutions unfolding across the Arab world – in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and elsewhere – has helped propel what has become variously known as the “Arab awakening” or “Arab Spring.”
If you can use patterns in Google searches to track flu outbreaks and predict a movie’s commercial prospects, can you also use it to forecast market movements or even revolutions?
Technological revolutions in communications and economic globalization have brought citizens of different countries together, they argue.
And it would surely be fitting if the preamble to that Charter made explicit reference to the ideals of the central European revolutions of 1989.
Moldova Comes in From the ColdCHISINAU – Today, “color revolutions,” which a few years ago were seen as promising developments in the post-Soviet space, seem to be out of fashion.
South of the RevolutionPRETORIA – Over dinner in Algiers recently, we asked each other whether the youth-led revolutions unfolding in northern Africa presage the awakening of economic lions throughout the continent.
The concept of Realpolitik emerged from the mixed outcomes of the European revolutions of 1848, when Germany’s future unification had many possible permutations, but the larger political goal – an international order comprising strong nation-states – was nonetheless clear.
But misrepresentation is not just at the heart of financial and economic crises; it is also the stuff that drives revolutions.
When revolutions disrupt this continuity, they wreak violence against monuments.
After the various revolutions in the early decades of the twentieth century, Confucianism was replaced by a Chinese version of Communism.
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