Now, opinion polls are showing unprecedented levels of discontent over crime, inflation, and power and water shortages.

Inequality and Discontent

The Cycles of Economic Discontent

And, given the economic slowdown, widening income disparity, rising unemployment, and growing popular discontent over corruption, China s leaders will have their hands full.

Populist movements harvest that ambivalence and discontent.

But the periphery is seething with discontent.

This will generally deepen discontent and hasten conflict.

Particularly important is the growing discontent of economics students with the university curriculum. Undergraduates discontent matters, because economics has long been the West s political lodestar.

In China, fear of inflation is unleashing large scale discontent.

Isolationist policies, by contrast, always lead to shortages and discontent.

Many of the assessment mission's interlocutors indicated that growing public discontent over corruption in the management of State revenues was a serious problem which needed to be urgently addressed by the Government.

Putin regards anti Americanism as an effective tool for short circuiting domestic discontent.

This is not a shareholders spring it is the winter of their discontent.

Domestic economic and political grievances can now buttress discontent across regions and continents.

The discontent fueled by these failures is a major potential cause of unrest.

And European discontent will probably continue to grow, whatever happens in the US.

Obama s current winter of discontent genuinely reflects the mixed record of his first year.

At the same time, selective repression can contain social frustrations and discontent only temporarily.

This is the least likely scenario, owing to deepening internal Party disagreements and rising popular discontent.

The tension between democracy and finance is at the root of today s rising discontent in Europe.

In Japan s season of political discontent, it seems that there is nothing new under the sun.

By censoring the media, discrediting moderate opposition, and provoking popular discontent, Putin is playing with fire.

The desire to avoid public discontent and ensure social stability led to a suspension of reform.

Protests have already toppled governments in Tunisia and Egypt, leaving other Arab countries faced with widespread discontent.

Resolving such conflicts requires social alliances, which are invariably undermined by discontent, civil disorder, and political instability.

Popular discontent exploded in the 1905 Russian Revolution, which took a nationalist character in the Baltic provinces.

They are even connected to the day s top story, the revolutions in the Middle East, which, according to some accounts, were triggered by popular discontent over high food prices and which could themselves trigger further increases in oil prices.

However, the political situation in Kyrgyzstan is far from stable. Discontent with President Kurmanbek Bakiyev s rule is rising.

Some aspects of the current mood are probably cyclical, while others represent discontent with political bickering and deadlock.

This is a message the world would do well to heed, lest discontent with globalization continue to grow.

This move has caused a huge discontent and rift between the official opposition and the independent Youth movement.

Nuri as Said was able to contain the rising discontent only by resorting to even greater political oppression.

Coupled with all this is northern European discontent with the central bankers, specifically with the ECB and the euro.

Price rises have been a major trigger of the discontent this year in the Middle East and North Africa.

To begin with, members of the small but steadily growing Saudi middle class have increasingly expressed their discontent publicly.

And the general discontent with official corruption and political oppression was amply demonstrated in all regions of China in 1989.

While China's rulers may fear losing control, they also need to recognize that the current system is causing intense discontent.

Indeed, oil rents eventually weaken state institutions, and this hollowing out of the state often gives rise to growing discontent.

Years of sclerosis have given way to a frantic push for reforms to match the aspirations and discontent of millions.

The 2004 elections for the European Parliament had already shown that the level of discontent with the Union was high.

Doing everything possible to avoid a repeat of the 1989 scenario may well be the Communist Party leadership s top priority in 2009. And, given the economic slowdown, widening income disparity, rising unemployment, and growing popular discontent over corruption, China s leaders will have their hands full.

Thus, addressing Europe s serious economic issues requires wading into the deep waters of the political imagination. So far, however, policies aimed at shoring up the euro have been narrowly technical, in an effort to isolate Europe s financial travails from popular discontent over its direction.

Such largesse betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the causes of today s discontent, because it assumes that these causes are purely material.

Meanwhile, corruption scandals and widespread frustration with the low quality of public services are fueling social discontent and reducing investor confidence.

State action and monetary expansion as a means of buying off discontent were discredited, as was the West European welfare state.