Regrettably, Mr. Koizumi has coupled his calls for economic modernization with an improbable nostalgia for Japanese nationalism, as in his support for ending Japan's constitutional ban on making war.
In the end, the victorious imperial faction abandoned its objective to expel foreigners from Japan and instead adopted a policy of continued modernization with an eye to eventual renegotiation of the Unequal Treaties with the Western powers.
Russia closely examined the performance of western militaries, with a focus on the United States and NATO, and undertook a massive program of reorganization and modernization, with an emphasis on increased professionalism and operational preparedness.
Many other states are also struggling with voting modernization, with just a few, like Georgia and Maryland, already installing or selecting new machines statewide.
Standardization of modernization metamodels, with related architecture-driven modernization patterns and metrics libraries provides vendors, service providers, and the enterprises deploying modernization solutions with a clear roadmap for delivering projects.
Clearly trying to balance nuclear modernization with gestures toward a European population more interested in eliminating nuclear weapons than improving them, Mr. Sarkozy said France would continue to reduce the number of warheads on airplanes, bringing its total nuclear force to fewer than 300 warheads, half the number during the cold war.
The early episode of the city's growth displayed a typical example of modernization with the hand of a determined nationalist government.
Ankara, being the symbol of republican modernization distinguished with a radical interpretation of secularism, suffers this political tension and witnesses the social predicaments of an immense transformation shaped by urban regeneration projects.
This strategic guidance set in motion a time table of modernization with the end result of a total "informatization" of the PLA by 2050.
It has been enormously influential in setting out a "blueprint for modernization", with its practical message enhanced by a "tremendous beauty and passion".
