The administration's policy plays into the hands of Beijing's hard-liners just as China's political succession begins.

North Korea has begun the process of political succession in the same idiosyncratic manner it has developed over the decades.

There were no clear constitutional or democratic procedures for political succession.

But the talk of political succession only widened in Indonesia, with 200 million people the world's fourth-largest nation.

And it has not uttered a word about the delicate question of political succession, even though that is the central issue affecting Indonesia's economic future.

Indonesia does not have a history of peaceful political succession.

In many political successions, the new arrival can simply blame the predecessor for an inheritance of woes.

It's a country approaching a political succession in 2012.

Anyone who wants to understand the danger of destroying the Taliban without a plan for political succession should read this book.

Clarifying political succession among the praefecti mainly in the 4th century, with tables.