... as it may, the Middle East is familiar with two approaches to reform, the Algerian and the Syrian ones. Algeria, under the presidency of Chadli Bendjedid between 1979 and 1992, chose the path of unlimited political liberalization and gradual market reforms, which were certainly overdue. The one-party regime of the National Liberation Front was rapidly losing its social base to Islamist movements. But its transformation was haphazard by nature, akin to Gorbachev’s perestroika in the Soviet Union....
Specific features of its spiritual tradition, its values and the institutional framework permit the system to adapt to the changing social environment and allow for improvising when handling forms of political governance
As sporadic protests occur in Iran, some experts claim that
regime changes
are inevitable, listing the adverse economic situation, corruption and unprecedented pressure of the sanctions among the principal factors behind the instability. It appears, however, that Iran's political...
... differs radically from the Soviet society of the 1940s. An all-to-arms model might still be useful for creating a successful equivalent of Henry Ford’s automobile plant, but not of Silicon Valley.
An alternative route would involve profound structural reforms of the Russian economy, accelerated economic diversification, a dramatic increase in investment in human capital, the strengthening of institutions, an overhaul of the state administration system, a technological leap and the development of entrepreneurial ...
This article reviews
Updating the Constitution as the Completion of the Revolution
, a Ukrainian research project. It identifies the problem areas of full-scale implementation of constitutional reforms proposed by the nation’s leaders, as well as potential ways and means for overcoming existing obstacles on the path to a successful transformation of the country, while taking into account Ukraine’s domestic policy-specific characteristics ...
... economic problems in September 2008, resulting in a fall in GDP by 14.8% in 2009
[2]
. The government resorted to emergency measures,
drawing on 16.4 billion dollars from the IMF in 2008
and 15.1 billion dollars in 2010, but failed to launch
structural reforms
. The economic growth resumed in 2010 at about 5% a year, but in 2012 froze at 0.3%
[3]
. The situation in the country has become critical, and the beginning of military operations in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions coupled with Crimea’s ...
... impressive gains. In part this was a hydrocarbon economy but not only.
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Igor Istomin:
Unraveling the Enigma: Western Expert
Community Seeks to Explain Russian Policy
There were other reasons, including first-stage liberalizing economic reforms that happened during the first term of President Putin. We feel that this was in Russia’s interests, and we feel that a second stage of such economic modernization domestically would also be in Russia’s interests. We feel that it would ...
... democracy
Ukraine has entered a new stage in its long and so far uncompleted democratization process, searching once again for a balanced model of governance and a strong basis on which to carry out the many, much-needed political, economic and civil reforms. Ukraine’s road to its model of democracy, as seen in many former Soviet states, is proving to be a non-linear process involving different development vectors. Although the successful promotion of democracy depends on the type of political ...
After three years of the international community’s euphoria and enthusiasm about the political reforms in Myanmar, since mid 2014 there has been talk of them slowing down and even of backsliding on democratization in the country.
Ms. Yanghee Lee, the recently appointed new UN Special Rapporteur on human rights situation in Myanmar, has prepared ...
... independence in 2015. The Communist Party of Vietnam has held power throughout all of those decades. What are the Communist Party's positions right now? How is the Party adapting to the changing international environment, and will it be able to implement reforms the country and the Party itself need? We posed these and other questions to Carlyle Thayer, Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales (Australia).
How would you assess the state of the CPV on the eve of the country’s 70th ...
... Interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, signed the political provisions of the Association Agreement. The full Agreement was finally signed on June 27. However, no roadmap is available to help Ukraine meet the expectations of the EU. The required reforms won’t come easily and will involve significant sacrifice by the Ukrainian people. Progress will be slow and, as we have come to expect, will likely stall a few times along the way.
Political, economic, and civil society reforms are essential ...
