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So far, the
succession
in Pyongyang seems to be proceeding in an orderly fashion.
In the early stages of this precarious succession, China has behaved as expected, trying to prop up the regime in order to ensure stability in its nuclear-armed neighbor.
But the key external factor in ensuring a peaceful
succession
will be the policies of South Korea and the US, which must decide whether they can work with the North in the post-Kim Jong-il era.
In rapid succession, advanced-country central banks also launched quantitative easing (QE), purchasing massive volumes of long-term government securities to reduce their yields.
The EU’s malaise is self-inflicted, owing to an unprecedented
succession
of bad economic decisions, beginning with the creation of the euro.
After a
succession
of bursting multi-trillion-dollar credit bubbles, you might wonder what to make of Robert Lucas’s view that rational expectations enable perfectly calculating “agents” to maximize economic utility.
After a
succession
of conservative governments, in 2009 Salvadorans elected a president running on the ticket of the FMLN, the old guerrilla group that fought the Salvadorean army and its US ally to a draw in the late 1980’s.
On the surface, the
succession
has proceeded as expected, with Crown Prince Abdullah becoming king now that Fahad has died.
Like the geriatric successions that preceded the collapse of the Soviet Union, the
succession
in Saudi Arabia seems to be only a step in an inexorable march toward political decay.
With the expectation that there will be no
"succession
crisis" and that an orderly transfer of power had long been agreed, business people simply do not expect the political situation in China to be worse than in 1989, when good business opportunities continued to abound.
Kifaya’s action is especially bold in the midst of a government crackdown to prepare the way for the
succession
of Mubarak’s son, Gamal.
By embracing economic neoliberalism so uncompromisingly, Russia’s political liberals lost any chance of inheriting the
succession
to communism.
The breakdown in relations has been gradual and undramatic – more a morose and resentful refusal to see each other’s point of view than a
succession
of rows.
The Asar Party, founded and led by President Nazarbayev's daughter, was expected to claim second place, assuring her eventual
succession.
A democrat who opposed ballot rigging in his town, his body was broken by mafia networks in “safe” Turkey, in a
succession
of torture sessions for ransom.
His election will further erode Pax Americana, already battered by a
succession
of foolish wars.
Nor, it seems clear, will Mubarak secure the
succession
of his son, Gamel, before he goes.
With some 22,000 members, competition is a way of life in the world’s largest ruling family – a dynamic set in motion by the Kingdom’s founder, Abdul Aziz Al Saud, as he sought to secure the role of his 43 sons as future rulers, and sustained today by King Abdullah’s
succession
strategy.
Abdullah’s
succession
in 2005 posed a direct challenge to the Sudeiri brothers’ authority.
Arab Fathers and SonsThe problem of
succession
in the Arab secular republics highlights their predicament in the transition to a post-revolutionary phase, for
succession
in regimes that fail to build strong institutions always risks triggering a systemic crisis.
While the decision by some in favor of dynastic
succession
may be lacking in democracy, it is not entirely devoid of merit.
Syria has already sought to assure regime continuity through quasi-monarchic hereditary
succession
with the move from Hafez al-Assad to his son Bashar.
As products of revolutionary military takeovers, these secular nationalist regimes failed to produce genuine popular legitimacy and have had to fall back on the dynastic
succession
practiced by the regimes they toppled.
The centrality of hereditary
succession
in the quest for peace and stability was shown by Hafez al-Assad when he agreed to unprecedented good will gestures aimed at drawing Ehud Barak’s Israeli government into a peace deal.
Mubarak’s
succession
is being conducted in an especially sophisticated manner.
The last of the revolutionary generation, President Abdulaziz Buteflika must still conceive a
succession
that ends his country’s civil war.
But, as countries like Egypt, Syria, and Lybia might be indicating, hereditary
succession
is not an inherently reactionary move.
The Long March from the Third PlenumBEIJING – Though China’s leadership
succession
was completed earlier this year, the policy agenda for the coming decade has only just been revealed.
Following Chinese political tradition, the country’s new leadership had to wait for the Third Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th Central Committee – held 3-4 quarters after the First Plenum, where the
succession
was sealed – to unveil its economic-policy priorities.
Europe and Anti-EuropeBERLIN – Since 2008, when the global financial crisis erupted, the European Union has been confronted by a
succession
of crises: the escalating Greek crisis;Russian revanchism in Ukraine; and the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean (which is inextricably linked to the regional crisis in the Middle East and Africa’s various wars).
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