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Nonetheless, there are concerns about what will replace that US-led order, not to mention how the transition will be managed.
The world’s three largest powers – the “big troika” – must come together to create the conditions for a peaceful transition to a new, more stable world order.
This unpopularity opened the way for a return to the presidency of Ion Iliescu, the Ceausescu-era apparatchik who ruled Romania during the first, wasted years of our postcommunist transition.
Sectarian violence is once again consuming Iraq, while clashes between anti-regime factions in Syria are becoming ever more frequent, with Islamists seeking to gain the upper hand ahead of the political transition that would occur should the government collapse.
While other countries will eventually pick up the slack, there will be a transition period of unknown duration, during which the supply of such goods may decline, potentially undermining stability.
The journalist Martin Woolacott describes Myanmar as a “halfway house between military and civilian rule,” observing that the country’s generals have been promising to complete the transition to democracy for several years now, yet remain unwilling to allow Suu Kyi to run for President.
For example, after more than 30 years of rapid growth, China is entering a “middle-income transition.”
But this middle-income transition is sometimes deemed a trap.
Of the 13 post-war cases of sustained high growth (soon to be 15, with the addition of India and Vietnam), only five economies – Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore – have maintained high growth rates through the middle-income transition and proceeded toward advanced-country income levels of $20,000 per capita or above.
Hemoglobin contains hemes, chemical compounds that contain iron – a transition metal that can undergo oxidation, or “rusting” processes.
After twelve years of transition, the answer to the first question has blurred.
These and other technologies will enable the transition to low-carbon economies to be carried out at a manageable cost.
A purely free-market approach to the required energy transition would produce insufficient progress on emissions reductions and leave behind large stranded assets, representing trillions of dollars of wasted investment.
Strong public-policy interventions are thus essential to support an adequately fast energy transition that is as cost efficient as possible.
A Security Strategy for the 21st CenturyMADRID – “Time and again in our Nation’s history, Americans have risen to meet –and to shape – moments of transition.
We are in a transition period: international interconnection is increasing, as the global economic crisis has shown, but the management tools and mechanisms to guarantee the smooth operation of governments are still not being shared.
One solution mooted by the Commission as a way of finessing the problem is to have a long transition period between membership of the EU, and full participation in the CAP.
But if it does fulfill these conditions, further hesitation by Europe will undermine all those who want to bring Turkey's democratic transition to a successful conclusion.
Moreover, Morsi urged Iran to join Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia – all Sunni-majority countries – in pressing for political transition in Syria (a role that the Syrian opposition rejected before Iran could even say no).
Microfinance can also help SMEs transition to low-carbon business models, by financing their efforts to adopt renewable energy sources and shift to sustainable production and supply chains.
Moreover, change must occur without violence, and a peaceful transition to a pluralist democracy should be ensured.
No other country that became upper middle income after 1950, and then made the transition, took nearly as long.
In fact, the average length of that transition was 14 years, with economies such as South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong taking as little as seven years.
That is a transition that Greece and Argentina, with their financial instability, poor infrastructure, and weak education systems, have never made.
Reviving conservation, management, and distribution efforts could reduce water consumption and increase efficiency, but these measures need to be combined with radical reforms to speed the transition away from oil dependence to a zero-carbon renewable-energy infrastructure.
A key ingredient of Poland’s success in the last 20 years was a clear separation, from the very beginning of the post-communist transition, between politics and business.
If the ANC could make such a transition in South Africa, why not the Palestinians?
Meanwhile, Europe’s southern neighborhood is still caught up in a highly uncertain process of sociopolitical transition.
The deeper flaw in Carnegie’s theory may be that it is just too difficult psychologically for business people to make the mid-life career transition to philanthropy.
Bhutto’s contacts with Mushararf’s military government drew criticism, but she remained adamant that a return to democracy was possible only through a transition in which Musharraf would give up his military post, become a civilian head of state, and conduct free and fair elections.
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