It's about disillusionment.

The fact that the vast majority of the provisionally excluded candidates were restored led to disillusionment with the process.

It was imperative to respond to the growing disenchantment and disillusionment of the Haitian population with the political process and to restore hope.

European countries once offered that sense of hope. But the crisis, and the official response to it, has replaced hope with frustration and disillusionment.

Disillusionment with the negative consequences of polarization was one of the main reasons for the less than optimal performance of many regional schemes in Africa and Latin America.

That is all the more poignant given that some damage, such as psychological trauma, if not addressed immediately can become irreparable, not to mention the dark despair of disillusionment.

Three United Nations Development Programme Arab Human Development Reports have now set out clearly how limited economic prospects and stunted political freedoms have led young and talented people towards alienation and disillusionment.

And just for fun, we put a bunch of technologies on it, to show whether they were kind of rising for the first high peak, or whether they were about to crash into the trough of disillusionment, or rise back in the slope of enlightenment, etc.

In the first, the region risks a cycle of weak growth, retreat from market oriented policies, and increasing disillusionment. As a result, convergence with Western Europe could slow, with many countries lagging far behind a far different outcome from that envisioned during the boom of the mid 2000s, when convergence within a generation seemed almost like a birthright.

He fuels Israeli fears and disillusionment, in order to preserve a status quo that, at least in the case of Palestine, benefits Israel. As Netanyahu put it last month in a closed meeting of the Knesset s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Israel must continue controlling all the territory, adding that the country will forever live by the sword.

As governments learn to collaborate with one another and with other actors, such as businesses and civil society groups, faith in the power of international cooperation would be restored. In such an environment, breaking the gridlock on urgent global issues would be far easier than it has become in the current atmosphere of disillusionment and mistrust.

Alongside the mostly economic arguments about the role of government, many countries are experiencing widespread disillusionment with politics and a growing distance between citizens and government (particularly national government). In many countries, participation rates in national elections are falling, and new parties and movements, such as the Pirate Party in Germany and the Five Star Movement in Italy, reflect strong discontent with existing governance.

So, after all the celebrations of European enlargement, we are left with a predictable set of problems a union of countries with very different views on everything (from foreign policy to labor market policies) and different economic interests widespread disillusionment among voters in the new member states a constitutional process whose future is uncertain and all the usual political wrangling in Brussels between countries seeking to get as much power as possible.