Is Syria the Next Domino?

But the prevailing domino theory is incomplete.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

That does not bode well for a domino effect, as no other Arab country has either a strong middle class or a tradition of modern, secular government.

Obviously, the domino effect need not stop there the insolvency of banks A and B could get a bank C and additional banks into trouble.

Because, if the first neurons in the chain are activated, through their synapses they send messages to the second neurons, which are activated, and so on down the line, like a chain of falling dominoes.

In early August, the domino effect of the eurozone periphery s sovereign debt crisis started to kick in, because financial markets do not wait for country after country to be downgraded.

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.

Where will they drive the country? With Tunisia regarded by most Western analysts as Arab and Islamic, would there be a domino effect in the Middle East?

But analogies are not always wrong, and those that were wrong in the past could prove correct today. One of the arguments for the Vietnam War was the so called domino theory. If South Vietnam was to fall to the Communists, other countries in South East Asia would tumble before Communist insurgency.

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.

The domino effect from the Tunisian revolution has produced further vivid accounts of corruption and deception, from Egypt and Libya to the Gulf, in each case stoking even greater anger and making more regimes vulnerable.

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.

Back in 2012, the domino theory looked realistic enough that the creditor countries ditched the Grexit option. Having reflected and pondered over the summer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel went to Athens and expressed her hopes and wishes that Greece remains in.

Where will they drive the country? With Tunisia regarded by most Western analysts as Arab and Islamic, would there be a domino effect in the Middle East?

First, banks were the primary creditors, and the large losses that they would face in any restructuring was bound to trigger a domino effect, with waves of pessimism driving up interest rates and ruining other borrowers prospects.

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. Such terms provoke fear that, once confidence in any one country is lost, all others are in danger.

And, if intervention fails, even boosting the fund to 1 trillion or 1.5 trillion would be inadequate, because there would be a crippling domino effect a Spanish crisis would affect Italy, an Italian crisis would hit France, and a French crisis would leave Germany as virtually the sole guarantor of an unbearable debt burden.

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.

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.