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

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

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

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

Inequality and Discontent

As in 1848, the struggle for affordable food is producing discontent that transcends national frontiers, threatens established regimes, and fuels popular demand for a more just political order.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and Qatar which Middle East commentator Saeed Naqvi has called the most vulnerable Sunni Kingdoms attempt to divert popular discontent along sectarian, Shia Sunni lines.

In several Arab countries, most notably Saudi Arabia, rulers have sought to quell popular discontent by providing a combination of cash, subsidies, guaranteed jobs, and free goods and services.

The Cycles of Economic Discontent

By censoring the media, discrediting moderate opposition, and provoking popular discontent, Putin is playing with fire. It is impossible to predict when Russia will detonate, but the system s fissures are undeniable and growing.

Populist movements harvest that ambivalence and discontent.

But the periphery is seething with discontent.

To be sure, as North Korea seemingly snubbed the international community in recent years, there was considerable popular discontent with the previous two administrations sunshine policy, which emphasized peaceful cooperation prior to eventual Korean unification.

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.

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.

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

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

The tension between democracy and finance is at the root of today s rising discontent in Europe. Popular anger at budget cuts imposed at the behest of speculators and bankers has toppled leaders in Ireland and Portugal, and is forcing the Spanish prime minister into retirement.

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.

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.

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Now the most popular option became the least popular.

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.

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.

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

Mural of Asmahan, the popular Syrian Egyptian singer, actress and popular icon.

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.

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