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

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

Inequality and Discontent

Widespread corruption has bred deep discontent workers protest the Enron like bilking of their life savings, townspeople fight against illegal land seizures, and villagers battle injustices small and large on a daily basis.

The Cycles of Economic Discontent

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.

Widespread discontent in Haiti began in 1983, when Pope John Paul II condemned the regime during a visit, finally provoking a rebellion, and in February 1986, after months of disorder, the army forced Duvalier to resign and go into exile.

Despite the current favourable security environment in the country, serious challenges remain, which include the limited progress in addressing the root causes of the conflict such as corruption, governance, widespread poverty, including massive youth unemployment, and the resulting public discontent.

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

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

Widespread instability

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.

Corruption is widespread.

This may mean that the surveys I have quoted indicate not widespread equality, but widespread hypocrisy.

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.

Moreover, medical innovations are widespread.

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.

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

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.

Distrust between EU countries seems widespread.

There were widespread protests in India.

Resistance to DDT is also widespread.

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.

The agreements have widespread support in Congress.

Despite reasonable rates, tax evasion is widespread.