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Indeed, like so many post-communist countries over the past 20 years, Libya is now making the gradual and at times painful transition to a market economy.
Obama continued to demonstrate these leadership skills in his almost flawless transition.
So, as Pakistan negotiated its political transition, it experienced significant economic decline.
Finally, Pakistan is undergoing a transition in which power is moving from the central administration to sub-national governments.
In the 12 years since its transition to democracy, Indonesia has regularly held local and national elections, developed a functioning free market, and strengthened its culture of tolerance towards the country’s Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and Chinese minorities.
But the bad news is that the transition now being asked of China – to shift toward services without experiencing a significant decline in economy-wide productivity growth – is unprecedented in Asia.
It put the US in effective opposition to the United Nations peace initiative then being led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whose approach was to call for a ceasefire followed by a negotiated political transition.
History also played a part in the success of the Hungarian transition.
As for the Middle East, risks remain abundant, with a bumpy economic and political transition likely to take more than a decade.
The Arab world, by contrast, has logged a mere three years of transition – the blink of an eye in historical terms.
The new constitution is the most modern in the Arab world, the fruit of a non-violent transition.
Nor are there any consolidated regional structures to which the transition countries can adhere; and there are few local models – with the exception of Turkey, for example – that can be used to help democracy and pluralism take root.
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and 23 years after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, the post-communist transition is still incomplete.
We must fundamentally transform the way we do business, with investors and companies abandoning their cautious approach to the low-carbon transition.
In other words, it seeks not just to put the transition to a green economy at the top of the political agenda; it makes it a key component of the response to a broad range of political, social, and economic challenges.
If investors recognize the benefits of getting in on the ground floor of the new economy, they will be more likely to embrace the necessary changes, thereby helping to drive forward a critical climate transition.
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – One question that should have been asked about the Chinese Communist Party’s just-completed leadership transition is whether the entire elaborately choreographed exercise was akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Even a disorderly regime transition, however traumatic and chaotic in the short term, could yield a system that, on balance, is an improvement over a stagnant, repressive, and corrupt autocracy.
Should such a transition occur in China, there is no reason to think that the process and the outcome will be fundamentally different.
But with political support for a clean-energy transition and climate-change mitigation stronger than ever before, the time is right to implement such policies.
A seamless transition appeared possible.
Such organizations have worked with Russian institutions and ministries to smooth the country’s post-Soviet transition, responding to needs that Russia’s citizens and leadership have defined.
With no institutions left to ensure a peaceful political transition in these countries, violent groups had an advantage over ordinary citizens, and a crude fight for power ensued.
A 1994 free-trade treaty with the EU enabled Estonian products to find new markets, and Estonia eventually became one of the most successful postcommunist transition countries, joining the EU and NATO in 2004.
It was a disgraceful snub for donor nations that had invested time and capital in supporting Ethiopia’s democratic transition.
Poland, a country that belongs to “New Europe,” is repaying the EU with a legitimacy that it had gained from Europe during its post-communist transition.
We ended the war in Iraq; we are implementing an effective transition and drawdown in Afghanistan; and we have seriously weakened Al Qaeda’s leadership in the fight against terrorism.
Military rule has cleared the streets, locked down the political system, and ushered in a long transition to some new, as-yet-undefined arrangement.
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.
In this moment of transition, dissent from someone of Li’s standing could have precisely the kind of destabilizing impact that China’s leaders fear.
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