Just as the soft landing in early 2009 occurred in the aftermath of a horrific American made crisis, this latest one followed the European sovereign debt crisis.

The country is also vulnerable to natural disasters and had water contamination problems following recent volcanic activity.

Nor, following the fastest five year period of economic growth in human history, are collapsing prices endangering the financial system, as they did during the Great Depression.

In other countries, of course, the outcome might be much more promising (The American Revolution, Eastern Europe in 1989).

Of course, it is possible for soldiers to assure a transition to democracy, as they did four decades ago in my homeland, Portugal, following their overthrow of the Salazar Caetano dictatorship.

There was also mayhem following the Indian Ocean tsunami.

Few will be ruined or imprisoned. But the banking system is sure to be re regulated, as it was after the Great Crash of 1929 1932, when President Franklin Roosevelt promised to drive the money changers from the temple.

That happened in the aftermath of the Hanshin (Kobe) earthquake in 1995, and it will happen this time as well.

Indeed, many have been quick to cite the aftermath of the terrible 1995 Kobe earthquake.

Thus, some type of power struggle, rather like what occurred in the Soviet Union following Stalin s death, may invariably follow a brief period of collective rule.

It happened the way Tom said it did.

His department had, however, provided advice to OCHA following the tsunami in 2004 and had provided specific advice for disaster preparedness in the period leading up to hurricane Katrina.

And the war ended with a regime change, like the one in Afghanistan.

There have also been significant advances in communications, navigation, meteorology and sensing.

Yet the aftermath of the massacre is in many ways turning out to be as dramatic and grisly as the event itself.

Creditors were protected and financial sectors losses were transferred to the domestic government (as in Ireland) or to the European Central Bank (as in Greece).

Rather than continue fighting (as in the US) after a heated presidential election, Mexico s major political parties appear poised to cooperate on a number of critical structural reforms that could energize economic growth for decades to come.

In other cases, the Kremlin acts punitively, as when it cut off oil supplies to Lithuania following the sale of the Mazeikiu Nafta refinery to a Polish company, or to Ukraine after its people voted for the wrong party.

She was shocked just like me, but didn t break down.

In other cases, the Kremlin acts punitively, as when it cut off oil supplies to Lithuania following the sale of the Mazeikiu Nafta refinery to a Polish company, or to Ukraine after its people voted for the wrong party.

The challenges of this phase cannot be underestimated, as we have seen in the aftermath of the tsunami.

And a clash is going to take place, like on the banks of the Indus.

As in 2015, the students' activism has been treated violently at times by police.

There had also been a considerable decrease in the dropout rate among women.

Something very similar occurred in Ecuador and Venezuela throughout the decade.

It does end eventually, as it has just for starters in Iceland, Ireland, and Greece.

It also involves the idea that rules are permanent no matter what.

What needs to be avoided is a failure such as occurred in Haiti following its devastating earthquake to move from the first stage to the second.

This is precisely what happened in Japan after the yen was revalued by over 50 against the dollar between 1985 and 1987, following the Plaza Accord.

As in post World War II West Germany, much of the current prosperity in Cyprus today is an outcome of the boost the economy received from the absorption of refugees.

Nor did he intervene on behalf of the Shia and Kurdish uprisings that erupted just after the war ended early in 1991.

Reality is catching up with the US, as it already has elsewhere in the world.

Considerable inroads were made in environmental planning and management in Africa and South Asia.

There was also some improvement in overall relations between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighbouring States.

Similarly, the Committee does not need to consider whether or not there was a violation of article 19.

As in Ukraine, Lebanon, and Kyrgizstan, it will be decided in the streets.

A particularly telling example is the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars of the early nineteenth century, when a string of exhausted states defaulted on their obligations.

In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, for example, analogies to Pearl Harbor were made frequently.

European growth, with its heavy dependence on trade, received a special boost, as did emerging markets.

Spain, too, escaped violent dissolution when Generalissimo Francisco Franco s fascist dictatorship collapsed at his death.

The Iraq invasion was justified by the same use of fraudulent evidence as was displayed in Kosovo.

A similar change has been introduced in France, where a new Prudential Control Authority has been created.

Nothing will be quite the same again.

Other interventions for example, in Somalia did not.

This strategy will exact a heavy price, just as it did in Japan twenty years ago.