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What is certain, though, is that the longer Algeria remains politically polarized and economically stagnant, the greater the risk of rekindling the Algerian spring – and fueling a very hot summer.
The EU, Serbia, and the BalkansBRUSSELS: On September 24, despite a system heavily rigged against them, Serbia’s people voted – in huge numbers – for spring after a long political winter.
A World AdriftNEW YORK – The annual spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have provided a window onto two fundamental trends driving global politics and the world economy.
That much became clear with the Arab Spring revolts in 2011.
This is disconcertingly reminiscent of the spring – when Jean-Claude Trichet, the ECB president, lashed out at a skeptical bond market and declared a Greek default unfathomable.
A Spanish government was overthrown because it lied to its public about the origin of the terrorist bombs that ripped apart Madrid's train station last spring.
The birth of Kim Jong-il, also known as the Dear Leader (his father, Kim Il-sung, was the Great Leader), turned winter into spring and was illuminated by a bright star in heaven.
But Greece’s creditors have already had two haircuts, first in the spring of 2012, and another that December.
The IMF’s America ProblemThe IMF’s meeting this spring was lauded as a breakthrough, with officials given a new mandate for “surveillance” of the trade imbalances that contribute significantly to global instability.
At its spring meeting, the Fund failed to commit itself to choosing its head on the basis of merit, regardless of nationality, and it did not ensure that voting rights are allocated on a more limited legitimate basis.
Although he didn’t explicitly say so in his recent speech, he is clearly targeting the kind of Russian interference that played a prominent role in the 2016 US presidential election, and also threatened his own presidential campaign last spring.
When the voters decide in the spring of 2007, their choice may depend more on negative than positive considerations, as it did in 2002, when Chirac faced the odious nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round.
After his speech at the United Nations appealing for a “red line” on the Iranian nuclear program in the spring or summer of 2013, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called an early general election, which could potentially give him a strong mandate for action against Iran.
Still, the World Bank declared this spring that Palestinian institutions are “well positioned for the establishment of a state at any point in the near future.”
Last spring in Burundi, President Pierre Nkurunziza assumed a third term in office, despite the two-term limit enshrined in the constitution.
Nor can we claim, as we used to, that our values spring from God, nature, reason, or historical laws.
An Arab Spring?
Indeed, the wall of fear has crumbled, the people have spoken, and an “Arab spring” could be at hand.
How is Israel’s national security served when, by its action in Gaza and inaction with Abbas, it jeopardizes its longstanding and hard-won peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan (both now looking very fragile indeed in the aftermath of the Arab Spring)?
It was the collapse of these brutal systems in the wake of the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab Spring of 2011 that created the current refugee crisis.
Of course, it could simply have been the weather; a gorgeous summer has finally settled in after a miserable spring.
Finally, though the Arab Spring has been stifled everywhere (with the sole exception of Tunisia), the expectations, yearnings, and concerns of the region’s people remain alive and valid.
The demands that defined the Arab Spring – for democracy, good governance, human rights, transparency, gender equality, and social justice – will continue to shape the regional agenda.
In this spring of 1968, France, like every developed country, has experienced 23 years of fast and regular economic growth of 4.5-5% per year.
They will not do so any time soon, on any issue that may spring up, if it means confrontation with the ALBA countries.
Moreover, it would be wrong to view this as a purely regional phenomenon limited to the so-called Arab Spring.
Its aim is to gain as much prestige as possible from the Olympic games in 2008 and the six-month World Expo in Shanghai during the spring and summer of 2010.
This clash of legitimacy is what the Greek government initially failed to understand last spring when it sought to ease austerity measures: Syriza had received a mandate for change from Greek voters, but other countries’ representatives had not received such a mandate.
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.
For example, the European Commission’s projection of the Netherlands’ potential growth for 2013 was 0.9% in spring 2012, when the government started preparing its budget.
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