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Perhaps the biggest risk posed by the wave of
unrest
concerns Rouhani’s planned economic reforms.
Today, this grievance sits at the heart of popular frustration, particularly among disaffected urban youth, who helped ignite the latest round of
unrest.
State police arrived and told staff that because of the civil unrest, everybody had to be out of the hospital by 5 p.m.On the eighth floor, Jannie Burgess, a 79-year-old woman with advanced cancer, was on a morphine drip and close to death.
Spending cuts are being put in place by governments and households alike, with varying degrees of public acceptance and social
unrest.
The spark that triggered
unrest
in the Tibetan part of what is now a largely ethnic Han Chinese city is unclear, but occurred somewhere near the Ramoche Temple when Chinese security forces attempted to stop a demonstration by monks.
Party leaders may not become sufficiently attuned to the needs of China’s people to respond to problems like corruption, environmental degradation, or peasant
unrest
before crises make them unsolvable.
Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, hampers the fight against poverty, and sparks social
unrest.
Social
unrest
and political instability will grow, exacerbating all other problems.
Here lies the threat of
unrest.
And one of the most important is why economists failed to anticipate the
unrest.
With job and income polarization having increased across all developed economies in recent decades, the
unrest
in France should serve as a wake-up call to others.
The period of fiscal restructuring – during which the deficit was cut from 9.9% of GDP in 2008 to 8.9% in 2012 – already sparked considerable civil
unrest.
And the result is not just general disappointment and worrisome social
unrest.
Instead, hard times could fuel civil unrest, threatening their governments’ legitimacy, credibility, and effectiveness – and with no obvious alternatives that could ensure rapid economic recovery and rising living standards.
Big Brother, Tibet, and the Sichuan EarthquakeShanghai – Tight media control of the
unrest
in Tibet has been followed by what, to some, looks like far more open coverage of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province.
And when one looks more closely at how Chinese responded, both to the
unrest
in Tibet and the Sichuan earthquake, one sees tangible signs that the Chinese are embracing a greater degree of free speech.
As global temperatures rise and droughts become more common, political agitation, social unrest, and even violence will likely follow.
Thousands of Russian troops remain on Ukraine’s eastern border; every day, there are new reports of
unrest
inside Ukraine, many allegedly instigated by Russia.
Security assistance should emphasize intelligence and policing so that Ukraine is less vulnerable to Russian attempts to sow discord and cause
unrest.
Rather than starve or freeze, they will move, and wherever they march, political
unrest
will follow.
Those shutdowns are another potential source of
unrest
in Bulgaria.
The existence of nearby conflicts, which can have destabilizing spillover effects, heightens the risk of
unrest.
Social
unrest
in Brazil made it clear that, despite remarkable progress in reducing poverty and inequality over the past decade, the country still has much to do to achieve broadly shared prosperity.
But there is a clear correlation between
unrest
at the EU’s doorstep and Europe’s irresistible instinct to keep trouble at arm’s length.
Rampant corruption, rising social unrest, and the inability to resist modern Western powers ultimately caused the dynasty, and the world’s longest-lasting bureaucracy, to crumble in 1912.
China is a frequently mentioned candidate, but its leadership is focused mostly on consolidating domestic order and maintaining artificially high economic-growth rates to stave off popular
unrest.
The
unrest
and instability of the Arab Spring – a term that many Arab political activists reject in favor of revolution or uprising – is far from over.
From the EU’s timid Barcelona Process of the 1990’s to the damp squib of the current Union for the Mediterranean, Europe has been torn between a concern to stave off trouble and
unrest
in North Africa and its self-interested measures to protect its culture and economy.
Indeed, the dispersal of a peaceful protest march organized by Tibetan monks, which led to a wave of
unrest
that was brutally suppressed by the Chinese military and police, has caused indignation all over the democratic world.
The reaction of the Chinese authorities to the Tibetan protests evokes echoes of the totalitarian practices that many of us remember from the days before communism in Central and Eastern Europe collapsed in 1989: harsh censorship of the domestic media, blackouts of reporting by foreign media from China, refusal of visas to foreign journalists, and blaming the
unrest
on the “Dalai Lama’s conspiratorial clique” and other unspecified dark forces supposedly manipulated from abroad.
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