They underlined the fragility of the Lebanese polity and its limited ability to sustain pressure.

If the system of lawmaking is corrupted, legislation will not command the respect of the polity.

Within the Israeli polity, Prime Minister Sharon has overcome the remaining official challenges to his withdrawal initiative.

So you had social complexity spanning the whole continent, even if no polity did similarly. Today, you've got nation states.

Yet, in the setting of the power polity in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, it is the latter which prevails.

Stonehenge is the remnant of a chiefdom, which is what you get with the invention of agriculture multi village polity with centralized rule.

These intra media struggles are interesting and important. The way that information circulates does reflect, as Howard argues, a conception of how a society polity should be organized.

Such messages should not be allowed to eclipse the basic political questions of the polity of Côte d'Ivoire, to which the existing peace agreements have already provided satisfactory answers.

Finally, it is the Mission's view that international and regional political support will be necessary to safeguard Lebanon's national unity and to shield its fragile polity from unwarranted pressure.

Finally, it is also the Mission's view that international and regional political support will be necessary to safeguard Lebanon's national unity and to shield its fragile polity from unwarranted pressure.

The role of the techno polity is to steer the world toward positive outcomes. It will demand that decision makers use their heads and hearts and it will also test their nerves.

They argue that his removal became necessary in order for the Syrian Arab Republic to retain control over the Lebanese political polity, especially if the Syrian Arab Republic was forced to withdraw its forces.

Disengagement from the California polity also is true of the state s economic engines. Intel, the world s biggest chip maker and a Silicon Valley mainstay, hasn t built a factory in California for more than 20 years.

A techno polity also recognizes the critical role of cooperation, strategic thinking, and adaptation. The biggest challenges nowadays are global in nature, and thus can be addressed only by engaging decision makers and interest groups from various spheres.

More importantly, the Palestinian leadership must reshape and reunite its polity to face the challenge of statehood. So far, the task of reconciling Hamas and Fatah seems to be no less daunting than that of striking a peace deal with Israel.

Currency borders generally coincide with political borders, so the creation of a monetary union was expected to give rise to some sort of common polity. Sharing a currency was expected to create a sense of common destiny, and hence solidarity, among the participants.

No sooner did one intergovernmental conference produce a settlement than the wheels started turning to prepare for a successor conference and a successor settlement. This mechanism for the deliberately progressive construction of a unified polity out of nominally sovereign states is unprecedented in human history.

In the non Arab Muslim majority subset, both Polity IV and Freedom House rate nine countries as having experienced at least three consecutive years of substantial political rights. Strikingly, seven of them are clear overachievers, because they also have low per capita GDP levels.

The rules of political life in Kuwait have been worked out over 300 years since this small area emerged as a self contained polity. The royal family is empowered to administer the country, but through consultation with different sectors, like tribal leaders or merchant groups.

But, before the US hands over international leadership to the Chinese, it would be instructive to look at China s own internal political divisions and inability to synchronize its domestic politics with its growing global responsibilities. China s problems make those afflicting the US polity seem trivial in comparison.

But then, once again, why the focus on Israel? With its multiethnic polity and society a mix of Western and Eastern Europeans, Americans and Russians, Ethiopians and Turks, Kurds, Iranians, and Arabs (17 of whom sit in the Knesset) Israel is precisely the opposite of an apartheid state.

After all, the West is not deterred in the slightest from dealing with authoritarian Russia and communist China. Moreover, Kazakhstan, though a Muslim majority country, has established the type of secular, multi ethnic, and multi religious polity that the West is seeking to encourage throughout the Muslim world.

But the growing conviction that tomorrow will be better will keep India s polity stable. This may well be the most important result of the Indian election five more years of political stability and economic reform will create an irreversible and virtuous cycle of economic growth and political moderation.

Artificially creating a new European polity split between left and right would create new struggles and intensify old ones about redistribution. The only thing that would hold the left together would be the claim that there should be more redistribution but to whom, and according to what mechanism?

But, beyond the direct gains from trade, such a pact holds the promise of opening up and accelerating the transformation of Ukraine s economy and polity. Competing for the EU s more discriminating consumers would force Ukrainian producers to improve their competitiveness by raising productivity, quality control, and marketing and logistical capabilities.

The differences between Arab and non Arab Muslim countries are striking. Of 29 non Arab Muslim countries evaluated by Polity IV , 11 enjoyed significant political rights for at least three consecutive years in the period from 1972 to 2000, while eight experienced at least five consecutive years of political rights.

For Saudi Arabia is a country in which both rulers and ruled are equally arch conservative, adhering, for the last two centuries, to the puritanical Wahhabi doctrine of Islam. During the last fifty years, repeated attempts by reform oriented elements to open up Saudi Arabia s society and polity had failed.

Can the British exit threat shake Europe to its senses and make the United Kingdom s effort to reform institutions more likely to succeed, or to make Europe a more stable polity? Hirschman s framework, which is instructive in helping us to think about how loyalty and affection can be generated, suggests that it cannot.

Neo Confucianism provided the basic ideology for China s admiring neighbors Japan, Korea, and Vietnam until the advent of the West. Its tenets were highly appropriate to the settled, sophisticated agrarian civilizations of pre nineteenth century East Asia, for they knitted together society and polity in a manner calculated to promote stability and harmony.

It is time to face reality the Kurdish region in the north is functioning in a reasonable way, and it has even been able to allay Turkey s fears that its existence will aggravate that country s own Kurdish problem. With the Shias building their polity in the south, the Sunni areas too should be allowed to go their own way.

It is time to face reality the Kurdish region in the north is functioning in a reasonable way, and it has even been able to allay Turkey s fears that its existence will aggravate that country s own Kurdish problem. With the Shias building their polity in the south, the Sunni areas too should be allowed to go their own way.

But the ultimate reality will remain that of a coalition government trying to make progress in a contentious polity. In India, policy changes require political consensus within the ruling coalition, labor laws are strongly defended by unions and political parties, and controversial decisions can be challenged on the streets, in the courts, and ultimately at the polls.

It is a privilege for India to be a partner in the path that Afghanistan has chosen, so I come back with a great sense of satisfaction that our two countries are working hand in hand to accelerate the tempo of social and economic development and to strengthen the democratic foundations of the polity of Afghanistan.

A genuinely representative assembly in the twenty first century will not establish a polity that tolerates political prisoners, censorship, oppression of minorities and women, torture, disappearances, or detention without trial. Governments that live by their constitutional principles, even when they are imperfectly interpreted and applied, should avoid slipping back into dictatorship and are likely to be self correcting over time.

With its decision to send thousands of soldiers to Lebanon to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, the EU took its boldest step yet in creating a common foreign and security policy. But it remains an open question as to whether the EU will actually be able to stabilize the most fractured polity in the most dangerous area of conflict in Europe s immediate neighborhood.

This disturbing decline of faith in democracy, which is not confined to Italy, brings us back to the powerful rationale underlying Europeans growing reliance on technocratic governance security. From the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union, what brought Europeans closer together was not the dream of a Europe wide, democratic polity, but, above all, their desire to be safe and secure.

With its decision to send thousands of soldiers to Lebanon to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, the EU took its boldest step yet in creating a common foreign and security policy. But it remains an open question as to whether the EU will actually be able to stabilize the most fractured polity in the most dangerous area of conflict in Europe s immediate neighborhood.

Turkey's secular, capitalistic, democratic order has become especially valuable to the Bush administration as it seeks to integrate the wider Middle East into the world system by liberalizing its economy and democratizing its polity. Thus, America trumpeted its continuing support for Turkish membership in the EU, notably in President Bush's speech in June at Istanbul's Galatasaray University at a bridge that joins Asia and Europe.

Even in the face of deeper political polarization than the US has seen in many decades (and, in many places, a visceral hatred of the country s first African American president), Americans and their politicians understand that breaking the rules means dissolving the constitutional glue that holds the polity together. This understanding means that the cure for the current dysfunction will be found at the ballot box rather than in the streets.

The biggest are not always the legal ones on which the World Bank and development agencies have focused rather, they are the business risks of a company that fails or a polity that implodes. If business conditions are auspicious and there is a strong consensus in favor of liberal capitalism as the polity s core economic principle, financial markets can develop and reluctantly absorb risks stemming from the legal system s defects.

During its nearly 55 years of independence, Sudan has experienced a succession of violent conflicts, in the South, the West (Darfur), and the East. It is commonly accepted that what lay at the root of these conflicts was the failure of independent Sudan one of Africa s most racially, ethnically, religiously, and culturally diverse countries to construct a polity informed by the principle and practice of unity in diversity.

Those opponents, on both the right and the left, are focusing on the everyday living conditions of European citizens those who feel threatened by migrants and those who are suffering as a result of austerity. For the EU to continue its march toward a stronger and closer polity and economy one that nevertheless falls far short of a federal state it must offer the credible prospect of a better life for all of its citizens.

We congratulate the people of Afghanistan on the successful holding of those elections, which constitute an important stage in Afghanistan's journey towards a peaceful, stable and prosperous society. That amply demonstrates, once again, the choice of the Afghan people for a non violent and democratic way of life and Afghanistan's readiness to emerge as a democracy, with a commitment to individual rights, the rule of law an open society and an open polity.

When nations embark on a program of ever closer integration, the end result is always likely to look unfinished if they put aside on an ongoing basis any resolution of the ultimate destination. Indeed, the only thing that seemed clear from the start of the European integration process was that the states involved along with whatever new partner states they might pick up along the way would continue wheeling and dealing to construct their ever more integrated polity.