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In the Middle East, Putin sees genuine threats to the Russian state’s survival from the Islamist parties that have risen to power in predominantly Sunni Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring revolutions.
During that wave of revolutions, protesters seeking freedom thought in terms of Europe and their own countries’ aspirations simultaneously.
The greatest hope is to be found in the ongoing information, Bio-, Nano-, Energetics, and Quantum technology revolutions.
Still, the Arab Spring revolutions did fundamentally undermine the pillars of the old regional system with which the Kingdom was so comfortable.
Nationalism, one of the potentially harmful legacies of the late-eighteenth-century social revolutions, has made a comeback on the heels of rising nativist and xenophobic fears.
And the subsequent “color revolutions” in places like Ukraine only instilled greater caution among the surviving authoritarian regimes, prompting them to implement measures to counter foreign-inspired democratization initiatives.
The End of Russia's Second RevolutionMOSCOW: Sooner or later, all revolutions end.
Romania's HysteriaBUCHAREST: Across Eastern Europe throughout this year, people have celebrated their peaceful, victorious revolutions against communism.
As in all violent revolutions, the morality of the dictator’s opponents was never entirely without blemish.
Revolutions born in bloodshed almost always create more bad blood.
Michnik admits that all revolutions are incomplete in the sense that not all sinners are punished, and not all virtuous people are rewarded.
To take a salient example from the prior industrial revolutions, this is as if the impact of the railroads on the US economy were to be measured as of 1873, 45 years after construction began on America’s first line, the Baltimore & Ohio.
Meanwhile, the "velvet revolutions" ignited across Eastern Europe.
Resurgent prices for commodities are creating huge revenues for owners of mines and oil fields, even as price spikes for basic staples are sparking food riots, if not wholesale revolutions, in the developing world.
Mexico’s innovation was really two revolutions in one.
In defining what it means to be ‘European', a crucial task is to reflect upon the double-edged nature of what we have gavin the world, to realize that Europe not only taught the world about human rights, but also introduced the Holocaust; that we generated spiritual impulses not only for the industrial and information revolutions, but also to plunder and contaminate nature; that we incited the advance of science and technology, but also ruthlessly ousted essential human experiences forged over several millenniums.
We are also starting to see the macro-level impact of certain productivity revolutions – particularly in the energy and technology sectors – that, so far, have mainly been industrial and sectoral phenomena.
Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife’s edge.
The recent revolutions, it should be recalled, started with the self-immolation of a Tunisian fruit vendor, who was harassed and insulted by the authorities.
The situation started to change in 1988-1991, when the history of the USSR and the Russian revolutions moved to the center of public attention.
Of course, in the midst of today’s ongoing Arab revolutions, America cannot simply ignore the Middle East.
So, the question we now face is this: how important will the technological revolutions in data processing and communications be in the long run?
But waning interest in the Arab uprisings reflects a deeper shift: hope for new, more representative political systems has given way to despair, as expectant revolutions have morphed into counter-revolution, civil war, failed states, and intensifying religious extremism.
A failure to anticipate political revolutions reflects, at least partly, conceptual inadequacies.
When the revolutions erupted, there were plenty of reasons for ordinary people, especially the young and the educated middle classes, to feel politically alienated.
This is not to say that revolutions are the privilege of the rich, but rather that growing relative prosperity might enable greater awareness of missing freedoms and stoke resistance against poor governance.
Even in cases when revolutions have been preceded by economic downturns, prior improvements in prosperity may have played a role.
According to the American sociologist James C. Davies’s so-called J-curve theory, revolutions – such as the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Egypt’s revolution of 1952 – occur when periods of prolonged economic and social development are sharply and suddenly reversed.
From the Kremlin’s perspective, color revolutions in neighboring countries and the Arab Spring uprisings were examples of the United States using soft power as a new form of hybrid warfare.
Forget the French Revolution as a model: the so-called Thermidorian Reaction, when moderates ended Robespierre’s Reign of Terror, was an exception to the pattern of modern revolutions.
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