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Rooted in civil-society activism, humanitarian intervention has broken into the normative practice of international affairs during militarized transitions, such as those that followed the Cold War, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and the Arab Spring.
Park Avenue in New York on a fine late spring morning.
Its relations with the West – and with the United States in particular – have frayed in the turmoil unleashed in the Middle East and North Africa by the Arab Spring.
The situation in the Kremlin appears reminiscent of the spring of 1996, when a group of KGB men, led by President Boris Yeltsin's chief bodyguard, General Alexander Korzhakov, almost seized power.
Of course, it is unlikely that growing dissent will dissuade Putin from standing for re-election next spring.
Together, these movements for change have come to be known as the Arab Spring.
For Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, where trend data are available, the Arab Spring reflected a significant shift in people’s values concerning national identity.
In the wake of the Arab Spring, however, these numbers changed dramatically: those defining themselves as Egyptians rose to 50%, 2% more than those who defined themselves as Muslims.
The previous spring, Harper had ordered Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander to review Canada’s refugee policy, in order to ensure that terrorists were not being admitted – a move that brought the system almost to a halt.
As a young man working in the Texas oil patch in the spring of 1980, I watched prices for the US benchmark crude rise as high as $45 a barrel – $138 in today’s dollars.
Two years ago, Egypt believed that major discoveries of offshore natural gas would defuse its dangerous youth bomb, the powder keg that fueled the Arab Spring in 2011.
Major emerging democracies like Brazil, India, and South Africa have been especially disappointing in their response to the Arab Spring.
Moreover, many economists believe that the euro's post-launch dive against the dollar was simply not justified by macroeconomic fundamentals in America and Europe, which its revival in the spring and summer of 2002 seem to confirm.
The end of the battery cage in Europe is a less dramatic development than the Arab Spring, but, like that popular uprising, it began with a small group of thoughtful and committed people.
Government and commercial activities virtually ground to halt this spring as democracy activists, in alliance with politicians and lawmakers opposed to a third term, battled Obasanjo’s allies to thwart the proposed bill.
Japan’s entry into the TPP this spring was a game changer.
But, as the recent United Nations Security Council debates on the Arab Spring have shown, it is not the major emerging countries that will influence events in the region.
A Way Out for Ukraine and RussiaLONDON – The leaders of Russia and Ukraine will meet in Astana, Kazakstan, on January 15 to discuss, once again, an end to the fighting that has roiled eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region since last spring.
During the global economic free fall between the fall of 2008 and the spring of 2009, an L-shaped economic and financial Armageddon was still firmly in the mix of plausible scenarios.
A Practical Agenda for Revolutionary TimesOXFORD – As the world’s financial leaders gather for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings, many working people around the world are demanding radical change, because they sense that their voices are not being heard.
In many parts of the world – from the Arab Spring countries to Brazil, Turkey, Venezuela, and Ukraine, frustrated publics are taking to the streets.
Stimulate or DieNEW YORK – As the green shoots of economic recovery that many people spied this spring have turned brown, questions are being raised as to whether the policy of jump-starting the economy through a massive fiscal stimulus has failed.
Yet another factor militating against intervention is that the distribution of power resulting from the Arab Spring is leaving the US with limited influence and little intelligence.
But the sheer complexity of conditions in Syria means that the regime’s endgame could trigger a transition unlike any other in the Arab Spring, different in both its domestic course and in its effects on the region.
So far, the US has handled the various forms of political transition in the Arab Spring without severely damaging missteps.
In this context, Iran’s support of the Arab Spring uprisings makes sense.
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.
Withdrawal will begin next spring.
Europe’s Refugee Problem, Then and NowNEW YORK – Earlier this spring, I drove to a beautiful spot on the southern bank of Lake Geneva.
Almunia is optimistic that a settlement will be reached next spring, so long as Google buttresses its proposals with evidence proving their effectiveness.
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