But the prevailing domino theory is incomplete.

In such a situation, the crisis will have triggered a social rather than an economic domino effect, which is no less worrisome.

Banks have not failed, and there is no sign of tumbling dominoes.

Indeed, it can be argued that the political dominos are already falling.

But then a wide range of inherently different countries seemed to line up like a row of dominos.

Rather than the dominos falling following America s retreat from Saigon in 1975, a Vietnam Cambodian War ensued.

Globalisation produced its own domino effect. The dominoes toppled GDP rose millions were lifted out of poverty literacy rates soared child mortality figures fell.

So the West should see the job through in Afghanistan do it better but do it. Sometimes the dominoes do topple over, one by one.

What Johnson failed to foresee were the domestic and regional constraints that would prevent the dominos from falling in the way he predicted.

Maybe, if not there and if not then, dominoes are more relevant to foreign and security policy today.

Of course, the old domino theory in international relations was only a crude way of emphasizing that different parts of any region are linked to each other.

LONDON With the Tunisian and Egyptian regimes gone and street protests roiling cities from Algiers to Tehran, many people are now wondering which domino might fall next.

So the West should see the job through in Afghanistan do it better but do it. Sometimes the dominoes do topple over, one by one. That is not a prospect that anyone should welcome in South Asia.

So Bolivia is not a premonitory crisis nor does the hoary old domino theory, to which both Lyndon Johnson and Che Guevara subscribed in the case of Bolivia, seem valid or even half way reasonable.

Many see Greece as the potential first domino to fall in a scenario that runs as follows the Greek austerity measures do not suffice, the debt crisis deepens, and the risk of a sovereign default spreads to other European economies.

A Taliban victory there, the advocates of the surge had warned, would radicalize the entire region and create a domino effect, with Islamic insurgencies unleashed across Central Asia.

Is Syria the Next Domino?

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A significant exception is some forms of the domino logic family.

After all, private creditors hold only a minimal share of Greek debt nowadays. In 2010 2012, by contrast, systemically important European banks were exposed, raising the risk of a domino effect that threatened the entire eurozone.

For slavery is not confined to Hongdong s brick plants.

Did Johnson s advisers push the country into a disastrous war in order to win an election or, to be more exact, to avoid losing one? Johnson, Bundy, and the others of course believed the domino theory, which says that one country falling to communism would cause others to fall.

From the stones of destruction, God willing, we will build gardens and basins full of flowers and soothing colors.

Ruby is considered one of the four precious stones, together with sapphire, emerald and diamond.

The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.

The coming years or even months are likely to see new forms of these domino effects.

The leading theory suggests that lodestones are magnetized by the strong magnetic fields surrounding lightning bolts.

After all, the brick factory bosses paid 400 Yuan for each child, so their property rights are at stake.

Almost all commercially available ametrine is mined in Bolivia, although there are deposits being exploited in Brazil and India.

The Europeans have begun to assemble the bricks for a new building, but without having agreed on its size and design.

Seven years ago, a lawmaker from Hunan province went to Shanxi province to rescue slave workers from brick plants.

Ukraine is one of the cornerstones on which the European order rests after the Cold War.

There are more than 1,000 brick plants and coalmines around China, and most are under the protection of corrupt officials.

As I click on the Web site of the county government, there is no mention of slave labor or child workers at the brick factory.

Policymakers can either crash into that wall, or they can show the leadership and vision needed to dismantle it safely.

As the Greek domino falls, countries like Portugal, Spain, or Italy start tumbling, and a small economy s crisis turns into a major European calamity.

Sovereign spreads are already pricing the risk of a domino effect from Greece to Spain, Portugal, and other euro zone members.

We consider that to be a violation of all peace agreements related to the conflict, as well as of provisions and principles of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, a cornerstone of European security.

Mistaken beliefs, on the other hand, are reflected in metaphors like contagion and domino effect, which imply that financial markets become blind, virulent, and indiscriminate when they are disturbed.

Well, you look at modern hunter gatherers like aboriginals, who quarried for stone axes at a place called Mount Isa, which was a quarry owned by the Kalkadoon tribe.

Kolakowski, modern Poland s most acclaimed philosopher, quickly learned that mendacity was the true building block of Communism, and he withdrew from it in horror.

Forget it 68 is over buried under cobblestones, even if those cobblestones made history and triggered radical change in our societies!

This might trigger a positive domino effect as well, as other states on grounds of international financial integration adopt similar procedures for controlled liquidation of their own insolvent banks.

The other euro zone countries, however, will not let Greece go under, because they fear a domino effect similar to the one triggered among banks by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

Do they even take the very waste matter that we have from food and fiber and so forth, and turn it back into soil and sequester carbon take carbon out of the air in the process of using our cities?