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Hamas Comes in from the ColdGAZA CITY – In the
wake
of revolutionary change in the Middle East, the forces of political Islam have scored one electoral victory after another.
This was particularly true in the twentieth century, when, in the
wake
of two world wars, the United States and the Soviet Union replaced the European world powers on the global stage.
Some days, he says, “you
wake
up and the radio or TV reports five car bombings,” leading to a kind of claustrophobia – part of the subject matter of his film.
In the
wake
of the US terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, there was an outpouring of goodwill for the US.
Moreover, while the technological innovations that markets promote bring real benefits in the long run, they tend to leave much economic and social wreckage in their
wake.
We know that some of the most powerful recovery programs in the
wake
of disasters are driven by women who have survived the worst.
And solidarity within NATO – a term all but shunned these days in official German circles – is mutual: left to its own devices, Germany could one day
wake
up in a very precarious situation.
First, they were to manage the state’s credit, almost inevitably in the
wake
of costly major wars.
This was the motivation behind the founding of the German Reichsbank (1875), which was a response to the stock-market and financial collapse of 1873, and the US Federal Reserve System (1914), which was established in the
wake
of the major financial crisis of 1907.
The answer was no – a decision that, in the
wake
of the 2007-2008 credit crisis, appears to have been a fundamental mistake.
One of the most interesting dynamics in recent weeks has been the public-relations scramble by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and other companies in the
wake
of revelations that they shared users’ data with US intelligence agencies.
The good times were also buoyed by easier access to low-cost capital, much of which has come in the
wake
of the global financial crisis.
Rousseff’s popularity has plummeted in the
wake
of public protests over spending on the World Cup, together with a sharp economic slowdown.
Congress enacted the FCPA in 1977, in the
wake
of Watergate, after revelations that more than 400 American companies had paid bribes totaling more than $300 million to foreign government officials and politicians.
The Kremlin’s War on LiberalismMOSCOW – In the
wake
of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States, the so-called “War on Terror” was launched.
The EU was not just an important peace-building project in the
wake
of World War II, when binding the wounds of war, especially between France and Germany, was such a challenge.
The recent resignation en masse of Jacques Santer and the 19 other members of the European Commission in the
wake
of a damning report on fraud and mismanagement may unintentionally play the same role in the EU.
This time, too, in the
wake
of Khashoggi’s disappearance, common interests and mutual dependence will almost certainly prevail over the desire to hold the Saudis to the standards expected of other close US allies.
But human rights and the rule of law began to re-emerge as a theme of Western policy, especially in the
wake
of the Helsinki Conference on European Security and Cooperation and its use by the administration of US President Jimmy Carter, as well as by numerous non-governmental advocates protesting the treatment of Soviet dissidents.
In Carson’s wake, the “Woodstock” generation of the 1960’s, with its Earth Days, soon began to organize a broad campaign, which saw, in April 1970, around 20 million Americans take to the street to defend the environment.
In the
wake
of Putin's personal juggernaut, Unity also lapsed into desuetude.
Otherwise, we will continue to wake, every so often, to find a graveyard on our shores.
State failure in the
wake
of colonialism is another source of conflict.
Resuscitating ideas advanced in the
wake
of Argentina’s earlier default, some experts proposed creating an international bankruptcy court in the IMF.
It was born, after all, in the
wake
of the first Gulf War, and was facilitated by the regional consequences of the Cold War’s end.
The problem of American power in the
wake
of the financial crisis is not one of decline, but of a realization that even the most powerful country cannot achieve its aims without the help of others.
And weakened trust in the
wake
of the coup attempt will make interagency cooperation between the military, the police, and the intelligence services particularly problematic.
Building a novel bridge, especially in the
wake
of a spectacular failure, forces engineers to think from scratch and also to think more deeply and critically.
Pakistan’s Iranian ShadowAs the future of both Pakistan and its president, Pervez Musharraf, wallow in uncertainty in the
wake
of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, parallels are being drawn to the 1979 fall of the Shah and the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
Recognizing this truth is highly consequential: The regional order created in the
wake
of the empire’s post-World War I collapse may well be arbitrary, but any attempt to change it is likely to lead to even more bloodshed.
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