In many respects, however, the despondency of some Germans about their enduring divisions seems misplaced.
Maliki faces a tough task to assemble a coalition from Iraq's disparate groups, whose enduring divisions make nation building fraught, even now.
But in context, even now, the big reality is not Northern Ireland's enduring divisions but the progress still being made to reduce them.
Plans for a celebration of the 10th anniversary of German unity on Oct. 3 have turned into a fiasco revealing the enduring divisions of the country and the wretched state of the Christian Democratic Party.
The State of the Union is, and almost always has been, in the modern era a spectacle of unity, masking the deep and enduring divisions that have increasingly come to define American society.
Archives|SPLIT WIDENS ON A BASIC ISSUE: WHAT IS A JEW? SPLIT WIDENS ON A BASIC ISSUE: WHAT IS A JEW? America's Jewish religious groups are locked in an impassioned argument over fundamental questions of Jewish identity, with some leaders warning that the dispute could result in deep and enduring divisions in the Jewish community.
The final result exposed enduring class divisions and prejudice between the south and the north of the country, where votes were heavily skewed towards the Workers Partyy, and where social programmes have had most impact.
As evidence of New York's enduring ethnic divisions, Mr. Moynihan recalled touring the city with Jimmy Carter during the 1976 presidential campaign.
At the same time the devastation of Syria's civil war, along with unrelenting violence in Iraq and enduring political divisions among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, have combined to cool Jordanian tempers.
Calls for direct action are based on the arguments that negotiations are no longer feasible because of enduring political divisions on both sides and the changing dynamics inspired by the Arab Spring, which demand that leaders take more populist positions in line with anti-Israel public sentiment.
