The political and social dynamics are also working toward disintegration.

Social disintegration is the tendency for society to decline or disintegrate over time, perhaps due to the lapse or breakdown of traditional social support systems.

Implosion This likelihood of political disintegration, economic collapse, and social disorder may be no higher than that of re equilibration.

The application of macroeconomic policies, without measuring their social impacts, has led to increased poverty and unemployment and even to the risk of social disintegration of many societies.

The Disintegration of Europe

Violence and conflict were often rooted in inequality, authoritarian regimes, poverty and exclusion, while inequality was a contributing factor in social disintegration and violence.

They recoiled at the Soviet bloc s disintegration.

Syria now is in a state of accelerating disintegration.

No one speaks seriously any more of the danger of disintegration.

Unless it is met, the eurozone s financial disintegration will eventually resume.

Not all long term dictatorships, however, end in disintegration and mayhem.

We have recently had our own cycles of exuberance and disintegration.

Next month will see the 15th anniversary of the Soviet Union s disintegration.

Indeed, he recently called the disintegration of the Soviet Union a tragic mistake.

And Syria s disintegration could further balkanize the Middle East, potentially unleashing new violence.

And Germany is once again at the center of the process of disintegration.

Its disintegration began when Nicaragua separated from the federation on November 5, 1838.

After the Soviet disintegration, even Russia emerged as a credible candidate for democratic reform.

In Qatar, the Department of Social Affairs endeavours to maintain the coherence of the family and to prevent its disintegration through the implementation of programmes and plans focusing on low income social groups as well as on older persons, orphans, divorced women and abandoned wives, and the families of prison inmates.

Either of the second two scenarios would increase dramatically the likelihood of Russia s eventual disintegration.

Indeed, it could lead to piecemeal legislation, disintegration, and potentially the breakup of the Union.

The vulnerability that this implies already has resulted in Sudan s recent disintegration into two states.

Throughout its long history, centrifugal forces have often pushed the country into disarray and disintegration.

And only hard core idealists dismiss altogether the mounting risk of the eurozone s total disintegration.

In reality, both remain mostly inward looking and preoccupied with the disintegration of their original culture.

Putin sees his own crusade to save Russia from disintegration and separatism as similar to Alexander s.

But not this time, because the financial problems were combined with a process of political disintegration.

Following the path of least resistance will lead to the gradual disintegration of the international financial system.

Today, Pakistan, a near failed state on the verge of disintegration, possesses more nuclear warheads than India.

Looking ahead, as the threat of disintegration looms larger, the need for German leadership will be even greater.

What would follow the disintegration of the eurozone and almost certainly with it that of the European Union?

If European leaders want to maintain democracy, they must make a choice between political union and economic disintegration.

The coup faced wide popular opposition and collapsed in three days, but disintegration of the Union became imminent.

But the danger of a fundamental disintegration has increased over time, and today such an outcome cannot be excluded.

Failure to seize this moment would, I believe, lead to the disintegration and eventual collapse of the European Union.

The power of the center is being restored, following its partial disintegration after the end of the Soviet Union.

When stressed, a big surface bifurcates in big chunks, but then the disintegration continues into smaller and smaller fragments.

Disintegration and thus the Balkanization of Iraq? Will it really be possible to limit the disaster to Iraq itself?

For Iraq s disintegration would be hard to contain indeed, it could bring about a thorough balkanization of the region.

With Germany s reunification, the main impetus behind the integration process was removed, the financial crisis unleashed a process of disintegration.

Obviously, we also cannot completely rule out the possibility of a subsequent weakening or disintegration of Europe s common political structures.

Fascism's demise was followed by the more gradual disintegration of communism after Stalin's death and Khrushchev's revelations of Stalin's crimes.

Post modern crises entail post modern risks, resulting in disintegration and implosion of power vacuums, not the danger of classical wars.

The potential for regional disintegration and reconstitution a process that can unleash untold violence, as in Syria is greater than ever.

In conclusion, at a moment when our world stands at the crossroads of a promising future, or a threatened one, let us not miss the opportunity being offered by this high level forum of nations of striving to save humanity from the ravages of poverty, illiteracy and social disintegration.