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Whereas Ukraine’s presidential election has been widely hailed as the end of the beginning of Ukraine’s political transition, the European Parliament election has been lamented as the beginning of the end of the idea of an ever-closer union.
Fifth, the political transition should take place gradually and with confidence building on all sides, rather than through an arbitrary, destabilizing rush to “free elections.”
The Authoritarian TemptationNEW YORK – Twenty-four years ago this month, Soviet hardliners, desperate to stop the country’s nascent democratic transition, arrested Mikhail Gorbachev and declared martial law.
Indeed, in the early years of the democratic transition that followed, most post-communist voters did not succumb to the temptation to elect extremists who promised to end the hard times they were enduring.
In Pakistan, the democratic transition, after years of military rule, is still not complete.
But a successful school-to-work transition should start when tomorrow’s workers are young.
Mexico’s New PresidentCAMBRIDGE: With Vincente Fox assuming Mexico’s Presidency on December 1, Mexico celebrates much more than a simple leadership transition.
Yet when Fox defeated the PRI candidate this summer, Mexicans were treated to a peaceful transition of power based on an honest count at the ballot box.
Zedillo championed democratic reforms during his term, enabling the elections and political transition to proceed smoothly.
With a democratic transition and an economy primed for growth on the basis of inward investments into Mexico and an export boom to the US, President Fox assumes power at a time of great promise.
And it should not be forgotten that, together with an astounding leap in GDP per capita (from $7,284 in 1980 to over $30,000 in 2010), Spain, under King Juan Carlos’s invaluable leadership, carried out a successful transition to democracy and joined the European Union.
Such feats always entail important asymmetries and political pacts; though fundamental to the post-Franco transition, when Spaniards were still fearful of reviving the deep divisions of the civil war, they plague the country to this day.
Here, too, the problem is a direct consequence of the political agreements reached at the beginning of the transition to democracy.
The public sector underwent rapid and radical decentralization as part of the transition, owing to the creation of the country’s quasi-federal governmental structure, which created significant overlap and duplication, both in terms of effort and resources.
Moreover, Spanish schools trail behind in the international ranking system; the relatively effective Franco-era vocational training system became collateral damage in the transition; and the low number of patent applications reveals severe shortcomings in research and development.
New Western investment in new pipelines would commit Europe’s energy system to sticking with Russian natural gas, and perhaps discourage the transition to efficient energy use.
Both the transition from a planned economy to a market economy and re-orientation towards the West are in advanced stages.
For front-runners in transition new challenges have emerged.
It is a key partner for Myanmar (Burma) as it makes its own political and economic transition, and it is a hub for trade with neighboring Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
The New Shape of China’s EconomyBEIJING – China’s leadership transition attracted global attention in 2012, and deservedly so, given the country’s global significance.
Through 30 years of reform, China has successfully completed the institutional transition from a highly centralized planned economy to a dynamic market-based system.
And yet the high volume and inferior quality of these assets have also posed challenges to the country’s ability to complete the transition from trade power to financial power, and thus to exploit the competitive advantages of Chinese capital.
Hungary's economy differs from other post-communist economies in two ways: the huge debts with which Hungary began the transition, and the open economy that these debts inspired.
Openness in Hungary's banking sector, measured by the share foreign strategic investors' control of the sector's total assets, is unprecedented, not only by transition economy standards but also by European ones.
Despite early errors, Hungary's banking industry is now the most sophisticated among the transition economies and the internationalized part is modernizing its corporate services, contributing to the health of companies in the wider economy.
A second, broader objective should be to ensure a stable post-Assad transition that provides firm safeguards against the proliferation of Syria’s extensive chemical-weapons arsenal.
A chaotic post-Assad transition in which chemical weapons end up in the hands of Islamist extremists – or, worse, a radical Salafist takeover of the country – would threaten both countries, giving them a powerful incentive to strengthen their cooperate.
Russia would also be able to influence the outcome of the post-Assad transition, enhancing its influence in Syria and across the Middle East.
Indeed, Russia could be offered a leading role in a “Syrian Contact Group,” which would be responsible for international oversight of the transition process.
The popular – and official – view is that China is undergoing a transition to a “new normal” of slower GDP growth, underpinned by domestic consumption, rather than exports.
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