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In his controversial 1961 study of WWII’s origins, the historian A.J.P. Taylor vindicated Hitler’s decision to take over the small successor states that were created at Versailles to check Germany’s power – a strategy by the victors that Taylor called “an open invitation for German expansionism.”
The proceedings lasted a total of 30 hours from the time the lower house officially announced its charges to the inauguration of Lugo’s successor, former Vice President Federico Franco.
As Wen’s successor, Li Keqiang, attempts to engineer deep systemic reforms, understanding Wen’s policy decisions could not be more relevant.
(Putin’s one-term successor, Dmitri Medvedev, now the prime minister, reinstated them in 2011.)
Although Santos was both Uribe’s defense minister and preferred successor, relations between the two have soured.
But in protecting his position, Arafat also blocked the appointment of a successor in his lifetime.
First and foremost, he stalled the designation of a successor, thereby leaving open the possibility that he himself could serve a third term as Chinese president.
The alternative for Xi would be to purge the designated successor, as Mao and Deng did.
With no successor in play, however, the possibility that Xi will serve a third term (at least), should decisively alter the political calculations of both his loyalists and those still hedging their bets.
By the time he leaves, his successor may well be welcomed with a collective shrug.
Even with Saddam deposed, what is to prevent a successor regime from using oil power to oppress Iraq's people?
His successor, Harold Wilson, secured the membership with a 1975 referendum.
Her successor, John Major, who campaigned actively for Britain to remain in the EU prior to the recent referendum, was instrumental in forging the Maastricht Treaty.
But if the geopolitical context is clear, the intellectual and political framework – the successor to containment – is not.
But those rules were steadily weakened, and by the early 2000’s were widely derided (including by Romano Prodi, Delors’ successor as President of the European Commission), as governments found that they could run large deficits without paying higher market interest rates.
As a possible successor to Merkel, his decision to attack cosmopolitanism during the election campaign reveals a lot about what he foresees in German politics.
This intergovernmental approach lay behind the Lisbon Agenda’s failure to deliver the results needed to make Europe more competitive and dynamic by 2010, and the same shortcomings will bedevil its successor, the new “Europe 2020” strategy.
What is needed now is a successor arrangement in which a larger number of governments, including the United States, China, and India, accept emissions limits or adopt common standards because they recognize that they would be worse off if no country did.
Failure, moreover, will likely bring with it a split in the political class, making it very difficult to find a single candidate to become Putin's successor.
But bold, visionary leadership will be needed to seal a successor deal to the Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen later this year.
Tung’s successor, Donald Tsang, was chosen reluctantly.
The FSB was created in April 2009 at the G-20’s London summit as the successor to the Financial Stability Forum.
So far, the decline of what was the Soviet Union has proceeded relatively well;Russia, the principal successor state, has avoided all-out civil war and war with its neighbors.
And, according to Greenspan’s successor, Ben Bernanke, there is no reason to assume that the unemployment rate will approach 5% – generally considered to be the natural rate of unemployment – any time soon.
To quote Havel's close friend, the Catholic priest and philosopher Tomas Halik (whom Havel once proposed as his successor), democracy without civil society is like a body without blood circulation.
There are reports that European leaders have told the US that if they get Wolfowitz to step down quickly and quietly, they will be allowed to choose Wolfowitz’s successor.
This is something for Wolfowitz’s successor to bear in mind.
What has been a sad and sorry saga could have a happy ending if Wolfowitz’s successor is chosen in an open, transparent process.
The other main front for Trump is the World Trade Organization, which America helped establish in the early 1990s as a successor to the post-war General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
Knowing the extent of his unpopularity in 2003, many believe that he was ready to leave power but needed a successor who would ensure that his legacy (and his wealth) survived.
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