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Otherwise, the goal of global governance embodies a yearning for technocratic solutions that override and undercut public deliberation.
Like Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump harnesses futility and anger, exploits nostalgic yearning and nationalism, and finds convenient scapegoats in vulnerable people such as immigrants.
Yearning for a glorious past is the last thing that will help Europeans confront the challenge they face.
And they should be dismayed to hear their president openly yearning for an immigration policy that would put Nordic people at the front of the line once again.
While the yearning for dignity, freedom of expression, and real democratic participation was the driving force underlying the Arab revolutions, economic discontent played a vital role, and economic factors will help to determine how the transition in the Arab world unfolds.
Neither the old statist left, nor the rent-seeking, crony-capitalist right had policies to respond to the yearning for inclusion.
But Indians are clearly yearning for a government that cares about all citizens, heals the divisions that the BJP has created, and delivers economic results.
The Israeli right’s current political dominance is fed by a widespread yearning for Jewish roots, a deep-seated fear of Arabs, and an uncompromising mistrust of a “world,” the so-called international community, with which Jews have a centuries-old dispute.
The left’s yearning for peace is seen as naive, if not an exercise in political lunacy (and in either case an unpardonable betrayal of Jewish identity).
This bizarre brew appears to have been concocted in an effort to reconcile the irreconcilable: the current yearning for democracy with Russia’s despotic past.
In a global refugee crisis, President Barack Obama argued, the US should, in the spirit of Emma Lazarus’s words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, do its fair share in providing a new home for the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
Our hearts are with the rebelling youngsters and their legitimate yearning for freedom and basic rights to express themselves, choose their leaders, and earn their own living.
In economics, however, President Putin has been a stealthy reformer yearning for consensus.
The new Arab generation’s quest for dignity is rooted in a yearning for decent government and civil rights that was long denied under the pretext of conflict with the “Zionist crusaders.”
Respecting the yearning of disenfranchised and oppressed peoples – beginning with the Kurds – for freedom, democracy, and competent governance remains vital for a durable Western imprint on the region’s future.
Complicating the situation further is the division between secular Israelis and the fanatic Orthodox communities whose rejection of the secular state and yearning for a society based on the strictest interpretation of Halacha (Jewish religious law) epitomize a deep-seated fear of Arabs and an uncompromising distrust of gentiles.
From all these profound changes has arisen a yearning for simple solutions – to build fences and walls, for example, whether in the US South or in southern Hungary – and strong leaders.
As a system, NASA is resistant to change, but inside there are thousands of people yearning to experiment and learn from both successes and failures.
There are lots of organizations like that, waiting to be liberated, their employees yearning to breathe free.
The Israel of “Jerusalem” is one of yearning for Jewish roots, a deep-seated fear of “the Arabs,” and an unyielding distrust of “Gentiles” and their “international community.”
No side has a yearning for war, which is why compromise solutions are possible.
Bad governments are always guided by their yearning for an immediate surge in popularity, regardless of the future costs.
There is a widespread yearning for reform across Europe.
Indeed, the Jasmine Revolution embodies all the tenets of the liberal political order that the West has been advocating since the Atlantic Charter of 1941: a yearning for freedom, opportunity, and the rule of law.
Indeed, this yearning for change is why Mockus, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, may reach the presidency in a country that experienced only a scant influx of foreigners in the twentieth century.
In the end, Putin has what history left him: not ideas, just a faction yearning to consolidate its grip on power.
But the thread that united all, the theme that remained unerringly constant, was the yearning for “change” – immediate, real, and tangible, not a promise or a tantalizing, unreachable mirage.
Will this yearning travel beyond the Nile, as it did from Tunis to Cairo?
But, more fundamentally, all are connected with a deep yearning for some kind of revolution in society.
A popular yearning for change, not the security situation, is now the overriding concern of ordinary Koreans.
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