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Hegemony Defined

Authority or influence. Usually used to refer to international affairs, to describe the dominance of a specific country, as in the nineteenth century was the period of British hegemony; the post-World war II era was one of U.S. and Soviet hegemony.

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Implementing change in Lebanon

Published July 4, 2009, 12:36 am, Zawya

The 1989 Taif Accord which ended Lebanon's Civil War also ended Christian dominance of national politics and drastically reduced presidential powers, through which Christian hegemony was constitutionally expressed.

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You can never really see a revolution coming

Published July 3, 2009, 10:53 pm, The Record and Herald News

What makes a revolutionary movement a real revolution and not just another period of civil unrest.

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Implementing change in Lebanon

Published July 3, 2009, 1:04 pm, The Daily Star Lebanon

The 1989 Taif Accord which ended Lebanon's Civil War also ended Christian dominance of national politics and drastically reduced presidential powers, through which Christian hegemony was constitutionally expressed. However, the symbolism of Lebanon's presidency can still carry significant political weight if its office-holder astutely uses it.

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Whither the revolutions?

Published July 2, 2009, 5:31 pm, Al-Ahram Weekly

What drives US foreign policy? Is it primarily the domestic economy, as it logically should be, or, as many argue, the powerful Israel lobby, or as other argue, the need to secure energy sources?

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Christopher Caldwell dissected

Published July 2, 2009, 8:05 am, Independent Race and Refugee News Network

The author of key works on contemporary terrorism and the concept of Eurabia dissects the latest anti-Muslim tome.

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What's the tipping point for revolution?

Published July 1, 2009, 8:09 am, The Christian Science Monitor

The similarities – and differences – between East Germany in 1989 and Iran in 2009 are striking.

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Nigeria: For CDHR, It's 20 Years of Rights Defence

Published July 1, 2009, 2:01 am, AllAfrica.com

Lagos — The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) emerged a platform for the struggle for freedom in April 1989 in response to ordeals Nigerians were subjected by military autocracy, following a coordinated campaign for the freedom of Mr. Femi Aborishade; a Trade Unionist detained under Decree No 2 of 1989, it was that time the group commenced to nurture a platform to champion the ...

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What's the tipping point for revolution?

Published July 1, 2009, 2:00 am, The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News

How can it be that 70,000 protesters in Leipzig in 1989 tore down the Berlin Wall, while up to a million protesters in Tehran in 2009 managed only – so far – to trigger repression? Or, to phrase it differently, what's the tipping point for revolution? Just when does civil society trump entrenched political power?

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RECONFIGURATION, NOT JUST A RESET: Russia"™s Interests in Relations with the United States of America

Published July 1, 2009, 12:26 am, Russian Information Agency Novosti

Moscow, June 2009 Authors: SERGEI KARAGANOV — Professor, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Valdai Club meetings chairman; — chief of contributors, executive editor of the report.

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EconomyInCrisis.org Interviews Author Eamonn Fingleton

Published July 1, 2009, 12:08 am, PRWeb

EconomyInCrisis.org is a news blog dedicated to educating the American public in regards to the destruction of our country's industrial base. In an interview with EconomyInCrisis.org, author and journalist Eamonn Fingleton discusses the U.S. economy, U.S. politics, and the ways in which America can reassert itself in the mist of this economic recession. Fingleton has written extensively on East ...

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