Quotes from Moisés Naím

No hay quien supere al héroe del pueblo en su don de palabra, en su carisma.

conversations each year with fellow participants confirmed my hunch: the powerful are experiencing increasingly greater limits on their power. The reactions to my probing always pointed in the same direction: power is becoming more feeble, transient, and constrained.

necesitamos partidos políticos más fuertes, más modernos y más democráticos, que estimulen y faciliten la participación.

It was Hannah Arendt who first noted, back in 1951, that "totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty

Although coming from different perspectives, analysts such as Kaplan and Amy Chua, author of World on Fire, have argued that the rapid pace of globalization and the weakening of states have made violent conflict more likely, and that attempts to create Western-style democracies where they do not currently exist are likely to backfire into violence.37

el dinero, por sí solo, no basta en absoluto para tapar los numerosos agujeros por los que se escapa hoy el poder.

Es posible, sin embargo, que el aspecto de la revolución de la movilidad que más está transformando el poder sea la urbanización.

660 million Chinese have escaped poverty since 1981, for example. In Asia, the percentage of those living in extreme poverty dropped from 77 percent of the population in the 1980s to 14 percent in 1998.

ni el líder cubano reitera su condena a la intentona golpista contra Carlos Andrés Pérez, un presidente que fue su gran aliado y llegó a ser su amigo.

De hecho, para muchos países, las remesas se han convertido en la mayor fuente de dinero e incluso en el mayor sector de la economía, de tal forma que han transformado las estructuras económicas y sociales tradicionales, así como el panorama empresarial.

Whatever path they followed to get there, politicians in government are finding that their tenure is getting shorter and their power to shape policy is decaying. Politics was always the art of the compromise, but now politics is downright frustrating—sometimes it feels like the art of nothing at all.

so long as all countries have not one labor market but in practice two—one legal or tolerated, another underground and unregulated—certain kinds of labor such as garment manufacturing, domestic work, and sex will keep producing huge profits for human smugglers and traffickers.

Ya comprobó que las palabras de Manuelita Sáenz a Simón Bolívar no aplican a su propia vida: «Bien sabe usted que ninguna otra mujer que usted haya conocido podrá deleitarlo con el fervor y la pasión que me unen a su persona».

Están robándonos las ovejas. Así describió un jesuita la oleada de cambios que barren el cristianismo en América Latina,

Hoy es infinitamente más fácil matar a un millón de personas que controlarlas».

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.

Economists and sociologists have concluded that what drives migration is not absolute deprivation,50 or poverty,

Regional separatism, xenophobia, anti-immigrant campaigns, and religious fundamentalisms all stand to benefit from the decay of power.

In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use—and easier to lose.

globalization and technological innovation have made it easier for employers to move jobs to other countries or to eliminate them altogether, changing the balance of power in favor of employers.

Mao dice que el poder nace de la boca de un fusil, ¡y tiene razón! La democracia es una farsa burguesa

The previous holders of these jobs not only dealt with fewer challengers and competitors, but they also had fewer constraints—in the form of citizen activism, global markets, and media scrutiny—on using the power they had.

El populismo vive en un mundo de fe e instinto, no de datos y ciencia.

First, does the manipulation change the structure of the existing situation, or does it instead change the second party's assessment of the situation? • Second, does the manipulation offer the second party an improvement, or does it instead lead the second party to accept a result that is not an improvement?