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Both Iran and Saudi Arabia are currently undergoing important political and economic transitions that could leave their regimes vulnerable.
If democratic political systems do not find ways to ease transitions, provide shock absorbers, and accept heterodox attitudes and values without condemnation, voters will push back.
Instead, four key ingredients contributed to successful transitions.
To the Victors Go the FoilsNEW YORK – A surprising number of elections and political transitions is scheduled to occur over the coming months.
The leaders who will take power after this year’s transitions will confront this fundamental reality.
Ideally, this should come about in a manner similar to democratic transitions in Latin America in the 1980’s, when authoritarian, army-backed rulers yielded to popular demands for radical, democratic regime change.
Many democratic transitions of that era subsequently proved to be disappointing.
In addition, the excessive violence in Libya might send the message to other peoples in the region that the cost of change is too high to pay, and that the relatively peaceful transitions seen in Egypt and Tunisia might not be replicable.
It is better to allow specialization, and build effective social safety nets and support systems to protect people and families during economic transitions.
The goal should be to stabilize these countries’ economies as they undertake their delicate political transitions.
Unstable political transitions could lead to high levels of social disorder, organized violence, and/or civil war, fueling further economic and political turmoil.
That is an important difference, for, historically, successful democratic transitions have almost always required a politically mobilized middle class.
History and geography – measured by distance from the closest seaports – have isolated these countries physically, economically, and socially, and have exacerbated the difficulties of their transitions to market economies.
In the four transitions when a Republican took office, GDP growth slowed; in the other four transitions, when a Democrat moved in, the growth rate went up.
Economic transitions are inherently tricky, especially one of this scale and scope.
And it took only 40 years for South Korea and Taiwan to complete their transitions from low- to high-income status.
Under Argentina’s leadership, G20 energy ministers signed a communiqué this summer highlighting the role of natural gas in “supporting transitions towards lower-emission energy systems,” with the “potential to expand significantly over the coming decades.”
A Corporate ManifestoAround the world, countries are undergoing transitions to democracy.
CO2 Emissions per CapitaSource: IPCC and Human development report 2007/2008 (UNDP)Figure 2.Total Global Emissions (Gigatons)Source: Author’s calculationsThe Changing of the Monetary GuardNEW YORK – With leadership transitions at many central banks either under way or coming soon, many of those who were partly responsible for creating the global economic crisis that erupted in 2008 – before taking strong action to prevent the worst – are departing to mixed reviews.
Such a model – in which government empowers private initiatives and is dedicated to smoothing the major economic and environmental transitions of our time – offers opportunity for all, while relying on the power of collective action.
To make the structural transitions that the world needs, we need governments to take a more active role – at a time when demands for cutbacks are increasing in Europe and the US.
With their neighbors embroiled in internal conflict or in the midst of difficult transitions, and with discontent rising at home, the Gulf states are eager to stem the tide of revolution.
Across the Islamic world – from North Africa to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan – we see fragile relationships, unhappy transitions, unresolved conflicts, and outright attacks on the United States, despite Obama’s case for a new beginning, movingly articulated in his June 2009 speech in Cairo.
Events in the Arab world in 2011 recall other far-reaching regional transitions, such as in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
CAIRO – With protests fading in Tunis and seeming to have peaked in Cairo, it is time to ask whether Tunisia and Egypt will complete democratic transitions.
As in the classic democratic transitions in Spain and India, the newly elected Constituent Assembly will immediately have the responsibility of forming the government.
But this response could prove to be extremely dangerous, given that failed transitions threaten to generate more unrest, radicalization, and a return to authoritarianism.
What makes the phenomenon even more remarkable is the speed at which these transitions are taking place.
Rooted in civil-society activism, humanitarian intervention has broken into the normative practice of international affairs during militarized transitions, such as those that followed the Cold War, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and the Arab Spring.
With transitions underway in Thailand and Indonesia, democracy is increasingly what Asians want.
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