Quotes from Moisés Naím

A US firm with a large "government affairs" division dedicated to lobbying politicians in Washington, a Russian company founded by an oligarch with personal friendships in the Kremlin, and an Indian company finding its way through the tangle of decades-old licensing and bureaucratic requirements face drastically different regulatory environments from one another, let alone from a start-up seeking to enter an industry for the first time.

Por donde pasa despierta delirantes manifestaciones populares de apoyo. Todos quieren verlo, tocarlo, gritarle que lo aman.

el proceso de apertura política y profundización de la democracia ni es lineal ni es universal. Siempre habrá excepciones y contraejemplos.

The decoupling of power from size, and thus the decoupling of the capacity to use power effectively from the control of a large Weberian bureaucracy, is changing the world.

unas elecciones perdidas siempre pueden volver a ganarse, pero un cambio de reglas significa una situación completamente nueva.

Las barreras en torno al poder, en definitiva, son los obstáculos que impiden que nuevos actores desplieguen suficiente fuerza, código, mensaje y recompensa, por separado o combinados, para tener posibilidades de competir;

cuando las personas son más numerosas y viven vidas más plenas, se vuelven más difíciles de regular, dominar y controlar.

Empujada por los cambios en la manera de adquirir, usar y retener el poder, la humanidad debe encontrar, y encontrará, nuevas fórmulas para gobernarse

Resentment" is one such euphemism: a polite word for the longing to hurt those you believe have wronged you. The politics of resentment are the politics of revenge.

Working-class and lower-middle-class people across the developed world have lost confidence in their ability to achieve the life that their parents enjoyed during the heyday of the postwar boom.

La clave es esta: cuando las personas son más numerosas y viven vidas más plenas, se vuelven más difíciles de regular, dominar y controlar.

He believes the world has entered "an era of perpetual irregular warfare.

In many Latin American countries, the historic ties of Catholic bishops with the political elite rendered them less sensitive to the conditions of the poor and especially of indigenous people.

the world market for cheap labor exceeds even the market for cheap sex.

when people conclude that their economic and social progress is blocked, and they are stuck in a lower rung than the one they expected to occupy in society. Status dissonance is amplified by the sense that rather than coming closer to your rightful place in society, you're falling further and further below your natural spot in the pecking order.

El candidato presidencial revela un extraordinario talento para «leer» a su audiencia y dar un discurso a la medida de las esperanzas y los miedos de quienes le escuchan.

The gap between our real power and what people expect from us is the source of the most difficult pressure any head of state has to manage.

el poder estructura la sociedad, contribuye a regir las relaciones y a organizar las interacciones entre las personas dentro de cada comunidad y entre las comunidades y naciones.

As communications channels explode, citizen journalism becomes common, and opinions can be shared with millions, yesteryear's gatekeepers of polite opinion no longer have the power to keep authoritarian views out of circulation. In this brave new world, authoritarian messages have little trouble finding their way to ears primed to accept them.

Today, new identity groups form around a burning sense of grievance. They're brought together by the very real experience of being left behind economically, disrespected culturally, and immersed in an increasingly alien-seeming, threatening society.

Fidel, como las naciones, no tiene amigos, sólo tiene intereses.

AL QAEDA SPENT ABOUT $500,000 TO PRODUCE 9/11, WHEREAS THE direct losses of that day's destruction plus the costs of the American response to the attacks were $3.3 trillion. In other words, for every dollar Al Qaeda spent planning and executing the attacks, the United States spent $7 million.1 The costs of 9/11 equal one-fifth of the US national debt. In 2006, Hezbollah fired a precision-guided cruise missile at an Israeli ship

For all these differences, the basic insight remains: when a critical mass of people in society feel their expectations in life have been dashed, conditions soon build up to a crisis. And in today's world, those whose expectations have been dashed are able to reach out to one another and build communities of meaning in a way that had never been technologically possible before.

Este tan aventajado movimiento político-religioso hace que las campañas rivales se vean y se sientan anémicas.