Cuba s octogenarian ruling brothers cannot last forever.

China's government regards the threat of capital losses on its dollar denominated securities as less important than the need to maintain near full employment in coastal manufacturing cities like Shanghai.

Egypt s establishment and its military are demonstrating far greater resolve.

After all, the ruling communist oligarchs have grown accustomed to a comfortable lifestyle.

This is difficult because the ruling al Saud are themselves divided.

The main objective of the new prime ministers and cabinet members is to regain popularity for their parties.

The ruling coalitions were reconstructed, with new faces at the helm.

The ruling social democrats, led by the prime minister Zoran Zaev, are in favor of renaming the country.

In the midst of the cyclone s devastation, Burma s ruling generals went ahead and held a referendum on a new constitution.

And even more policy makers and the corporate sectors would like to see how the world is changing. Now, why doesn't this take place?

Ruling politicians have issued promises that the other three blocks will be fixed by the end of 2016 or in 2017.

This is not necessarily because ruling families appropriate so much that they impoverish everybody else.

Even before Khamanei expressed his support for Trump, however, the establishment was already enjoying the US spectacle of US politics.

Decades old, apparently immovable autocracies are finding their hold on power unhinged change is invading their static environs.

As they negotiate the realities of modern economic life, the Maghreb s Islamist ruling parties are likely to lose some supporters.

The problem stems from the greater influence that ruling parties and parliamentary factions in Germany have relative to their counterparts in, say, Great Britain or France.

But even in Iran, where the ruling mullahs describe America as the great Satan, the young want to watch American videos in the privacy of their homes.

Neither Singapore nor Malaysia, where ruling parties have long dominated the parliaments, has a political culture as healthy as in Taiwan or South Korea.

But it is not impossible as long as policymakers understand the critical role played by the exchange rate and the need to subordinate capital flows to the requirements of competitiveness.

While freedom from fear is allegedly a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia, some ruling politicians in Serbia have brought it into question in recent months through apparent abuse of power.

With Burma s ruling generals preparing to hold elections later this year for the first time since 1990 it is time to try something different.

To be sure, many of Iran s ruling elites came of age politically during the anti imperialist and anti colonialist agitations of the 1960 s and 1970 s, and still cling to that worldview.

The ruling coalitions can finally afford, at least temporarily, the luxury of populism that opposition parties used as their main weapon in the last few years.

When decisions are made about who gets what aid in times of hardship, it is no surprise that ruling tribes get more than those out of power. Viewed through the rosy spectacles of nation statehood, this may look like corruption.

The country s establishment was blamed for duplicity in the American war effort in Afghanistan, backing both sides the United States and the Taliban at the same time.

Despite all this pressure, the ruling coalitions in the Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary held together, as the historical mission of attaining EU membership worked like a lid on a pressure cooker.

When decisions are made about who gets what aid in times of hardship, it is no surprise that ruling tribes get more than those out of power.

But the popularity of the handout option raises an important and instructive question just how did the ruling classes in these countries amass fortunes so large that people are clamoring for them to be redistributed?

Entrenched incumbent regimes everywhere are under severe stress from advances in information technology, shifts in demographics, rising expectations, and the obsolescence of Cold War exigencies.

The Iranian establishment has supported his attempts to open the country up to its regional neighbors, court foreign investment, call for moderation in religious and cultural matters, and even pursue the nuclear deal with the West.

But wasn t it more likely, Huxley mused, that future ruling elites would strive to keep the governed in line by distracting them with sexual allurement, entertainment, and other forms of pleasure, à la Brave New World?

The country s ruling generals will twist what is meant to be a democratic process, whereby the people get to express their will, into a mockery of free expression in which people vote in fear and without hope.

It is also the story of how the government and the parties in power have conducted themselves, and the extent to which this may eventually bring about their downfall ahead of the long three and a half years still remaining to the current administration s term.

Given the years he s spent vociferously criticizing the Russian establishment, it is ironic that one of the criticisms now leveled at candidate Navalny is that his platform is too similar to that of the Kremlin s handpicked steward of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin.