Succession
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And the recent experience of other countries, particularly the United States, certainly cautions against the Western tendency to conflate
succession
and leadership quality.
If China stays the course, the
succession
question is inconsequential – at least for the time being.
Now he is clearly hamstrung not only by the Democratic opposition, but also, and perhaps more so, by the
succession
struggles within his own party.
The EU will soon collapse, he predicted, with a
succession
of countries following the United Kingdom out.
Uncertainty about whether these deficits can be financed is one reason why the world economy, under current arrangements, faced a
succession
of crises in recent years.
The sharp reactions of the Orthodox Patriarchate to the actions of the Holy See reflect an ongoing crisis of leadership and legitimacy within the Russian Orthodox church, where a battle is clearly underway for the
succession
of Aleksey II.
Unless we start discussing economics in a Keynesian framework, we are doomed to a
succession
of crises and recessions.
Through this orderly and constitutionally correct device to attempt to assure his succession, Yeltsin may have put paid to any possibility of a chaotic power struggle in the Kremlin without sacrificing democratic principles.
The same Peronist caudillos that have obeyed her until now could start a war of
succession
if she does not find a way to continue in office.
The exclusive and closed nature of autocracy bars many talented individuals from rising to senior government positions, owing to a pattern of
succession
that rewards political loyalty over capabilities.
Facing economic stagnation and what Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei calls “the anarchy of weapons,” a
succession
struggle is the last thing Palestinians need.
Meanwhile, the
succession
is still being argued.
The Saudi regime’s stability now depends on its ability to maintain unity and establish clarity in its system of
succession.
Making matters worse, the rule of
succession
is ambiguous.
In short, despite Abdullah’s innovations in the
succession
process, it is an open secret that nothing guarantees a transition to a younger generation of leaders – or that an effective ruler will emerge.
The story of the Al Saud’s
succession
struggle is no longer whispered behind closed doors.
Ibn Saud managed to conquer and unite the vast territory of the Arabian Peninsula, give it his family name, and alienate, divide, and control his cousins and brothers in order to establish a clear and undisputed line of
succession
through his sons.
Short of a North Korean-style dynastic succession, these regimes never outlive the leader, whether in Italy, Germany, Spain, or Portugal.
The problem is that a
succession
of railway ministers, viewing the trains as poor people's only affordable means of transport, have refused to raise passenger fares, squeezing freight instead.
The Sons Also RiseThe looming
succession
of Ilam Aliyev to replace his dying father, Haider Aliyev, as Azerbaijan's ruler marks a triumph of nepotism on a scale other postcommunist leaders can only dream about.
Kim Jong Il's father similarly ensured a smooth
succession
a decade ago by appointing family members to positions of power for 40 years, clearing the way by sending the incumbents to concentration camps.
But another reason behind North Korea's dynastic
succession
was that Kim Il Sung created a national ideology, Juche , that mixed communism with a heavy dose of Confucian values.
But they actually reflect frustration among a population that has been poorly governed by a
succession
of leaders picked by China’s central government more for their loyalty than their competence.
The old centralized political structure built around Nehru's Congress Party collapsed in the mid-1990s, giving way to a
succession
of weak multi-party governments.
In 1989, the fall of repressive East European regimes in quick
succession
stunned the world, including dissidents who had long recognized communism’s vulnerabilities.
A
succession
of dictator-presidents ruled the country under a state of emergency for more than 40 years.
And some analysts in Seoul believe that a dicey political
succession
in Pyongyang, combined with food shortages in the countryside, could prove too much for the North Korean regime to handle.
Notwithstanding some bumps along the way, the
succession
of such programs in the 1980s helped avoid disruptive defaults, and culminated in meaningful reductions of debt and debt-service obligations, which helped several Latin American economies restore high growth and financial viability.
The wars of the Yugoslav
succession
have not only been a trial for the peoples of that disintegrated country; they also raised huge questions about the exercise of international justice.
Indeed, the
succession
of bailouts for Greece embodies many of the same pathologies that for decades have pervaded the development agenda – including long-term political consequences that both the financial markets and the Greek people have thus far failed to grasp.
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