Understanding the politics of globalization means that it is wrong to simply dismiss the anti-globalization protests as the machinations of disgruntled ex-hippies nostalgic for the heady days of anti-war protest
He had seen the movement swell to more than nine million members in the heady days after the August 1980 Gdansk Shipyard strike – and, like the rest of the movement’s leadership, had been interned when General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law and banned Solidarity 16 months later.
Distinguished brothers and sisters, in the heady days of pan Africanism, when the furious winds of change blew across Africa, our African colleagues insisted that they did not want to be well governed or badly governed
Looking at the situation of civil society at the end of 2011, the United Nations representative of CIVICUS said that the heady optimism of the 1990s that had followed the fall of the Berlin wall and its promise of a global wave of democracy and freedom was followed by a decade during which the war on terror was used as an excuse to restrict freedom of information, expression and assembly.
Indian GDP grew at heady rates of 8-10% per year between 2004 and 2007, a period that seemed to herald a decisive break from the anemic “Hindu rate of growth.”
The sophistication and production style of ISIL propaganda are deliberately targeted at young people from many societies and present a heady combination of idealism, excitement and gore.
More troubling still is that Libya’s violence reveals certain features of the Middle East that had been forgotten after the heady success in Tunis and Cairo.
Indeed, in the years to follow, self-styled preachers and pastors came to Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) promoting a heady mixture of religion, promises of liberation, and unclean practices.
Yet policymakers continue to focus on short-term demand management in the hope of resurrecting the heady growth rates enjoyed before the 2008-09 financial crisis.
Lusophone culture sometimes runs the risk of being this cover up of a violent past, a political correctness with the rhetoric of heady interculturality, which gives us the sensation of being in a space truly concerned with the fundamental questions of how to live with the Other.
Lusophone culture sometimes runs the risk of being this cover up of a violent past, a political correctness with the rhetoric of heady interculturality, which gives us the sensation of being in a space truly concerned with the fundamental questions of how to live with the Other.
Even at the heady growth rates experienced by China and some other emerging economies in recent years, it will take at least a generation for the middle-income countries to accomplish this task, and much more for the poorest countries.
The heady days of Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai (“Indians and Chinese are brothers”), the slogan coined by Nehru’s India to welcome Chou En-Lai in 1955, gave way to the humiliation of the 1962 border war, after which it was “Hindi-Chini bye-bye” for decades.