But the Arab Spring devolved into state suppression, sectarianism, and the emergence of the Islamic State.
Up to 40% of private sector activity is dependent on state investment, and many big new private sector advances have devolved from state-funded innovations such as, in the case of the iPad, communication technologies as well as GPS and touch-screen display.
The genre, once a repository of weirdness, wild emotion and sly cinematic invention, has recently devolved into a state of glum, routine sadism.
The powers formerly monopolized by the president devolved to the state governors, most of whom still belonged to the PRI and often, suddenly free of presidential control, behaved like the old strongmen of the Mexican Revolution.
By 1995, with tens of thousands dead, Afghanistan had devolved into a state where rapacious warlords and their gangs fought each other over the spoils of conflict, which often included the country's young women and boys.
In the summer of 2006, Iraq had devolved into a state of nature so wild and intense that it was impossible even to imagine — naïve to even hope for — any end to the madness.
Graeme Wood, at the New Republic, writes about the complex and troubling situation in Central African Republic — a country that, because of extreme religious factions and foreign intrusions, has devolved into a state of rampant violence and near chaos.
In the summer of 2006, Iraq had devolved into a state of nature so wild and intense that it was impossible even to imagine naïve to even hope for any end to the madness.
Thus, power and the ability to respond to risk has in many ways devolved to the state and city level, where individual roadmaps to resilience are being charted.
