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After the failure of President George W. Bush’s and Senator Edward Kennedy’s comprehensive immigration reform effort last spring, most observers thought the matter would remain dormant until 2009, since even touching it was potentially fatal for Democrats and Republicans alike.
America’s withdrawal, nearly coinciding with the outbreak of the Arab Spring and the eruption of the Syrian civil war, and its persistent passivity as the regional force for order, now threatens to lead to the disintegration of Iraq, owing to the rapid advance of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, including its capture of the country’s second-largest city, Mosul.
In the spring of 1996, the so-called “moderates” – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordan’s King Hussein, Yasser Arafat, and even some representatives of the Gulf dynasties – convened in Sharm el-Shekh with President Bill Clinton and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in a desperate bid to block radical Islam’s emergence.
The showers of the Arab Spring have not produced an attractive crop of leaders, let alone a harvest of democracy.
The global stakes are thus very high this spring as the Bank’s 187 member countries choose a new president to succeed Robert Zoellick, whose term ends in July.
Moreover, several major emerging economies were hit hard in the spring and summer, after the Fed’s signal of a forthcoming exit from QE triggered a capital-flow reversal, exposing vulnerabilities stemming from loose monetary, fiscal, and credit policies in the boom years of cheap money and abundant inflows.
The Irish government elected next spring is bound to repudiate the current arrangements.
A small but significant example of this is the United Kingdom’s recent debate in Parliament of a bill recognizing the right to same-sex marriage, which follows a decision taken in France this spring to legalize same-sex marriage.
Winning the TransitionWASHINGTON, DC – Is the Arab Spring turning into a gloomy autumn?
Trees and plants, sensing spring, started to blossom; birds were just as confused.
It is true that employment data are already seasonally adjusted to allow for normal weather differences in temperate zones; construction is always higher during spring than winter.
Corruption is a key issue in the Ukrainian revolution, as it has been in many popular uprisings, including the Tunisian revolution against President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, which triggered the Arab Spring, and the “People Power Revolution” in the Philippines that ousted President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.
Indeed, of the three initial Arab Spring countries, Libya has become a failed state, Egypt has returned to authoritarian rule, and Tunisia is being economically and politically destabilized by terrorist attacks.
But, by early spring, bond rates for Spain and Italy were again approaching unsustainable levels.
Why Economists Missed the Arab SpringLONDON – The sixth anniversary of the Arab Spring uprisings this year came and went largely unnoticed.
And yet, as disagreeable as the outcomes may have been so far, we must continue to focus on the Arab Spring uprisings, in order to uncover their root causes.
The Arab Spring suggests that improved economic performance cannot be viewed as an insurance policy against political instability.
The shortness of this Syrian "spring" came as a hard blow to the expectations of many of the country's intellectuals and professionals, young and old.
What began as a popular uprising inspired by the demands of the Arab Spring has taken on increasingly sectarian and radical tones.
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.
The Arab Spring has turned bloody and unpredictably turbulent, further diminishing the odds for peace in Palestine.
The Next Global Boom – and BustWASHINGTON, DC – The mood at the International Monetary Fund-World Bank spring meetings here earlier this month was grim.
Similarly, GDP growth began to pick up in the spring of 2014, running above the rate of the preceding three years.
The Arab Spring upheavals have given rise to grave new challenges to cultural and religious diversity in the Middle East.
The expansion of Europe’s naval presence in the Mediterranean this spring has had benefits.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and, more recently, the Arab Spring are clear examples of this dynamic.
The same Janus-faced approach is evident in Europe’s response to the Arab Spring.
By all accounts, the lack of jobs has been as important as the lack of freedom and human rights in fueling the Arab spring.
No one knows where the Arab Spring is headed.
WASHINGTON, DC – Every spring, international bureaucrats flock to Washington, DC, as reliably as swallows to Capistrano, for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, where they exchange information about their local economies and policy prospects.
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