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This gambit makes perfect sense if you assume that the post-cold-war world is going to remain nuclear armed and that nuclear arms will remain the main currency of power.
Yet the pressure for fundamental change – particularly of Article 9, which putatively pledges that Japan will never maintain armed forces – is such that there is a real chance that these obstacles can and will be overcome.
Tribal and militia leaders in oil-rich eastern Libya declared autonomy in March, and violent clashes between armed groups persist.
Armed with that critical perspective, machines could handle unanticipated situations correctly, and even be able to justify their decision.
A new National Security Council would formalize the army's political domination of Pakistani society, with the armed forces chiefs having the power to sack the Prime Minister and dismiss an elected Parliament.
Just as uncertain is the future of Afghanistan, where more than a decade of international involvement and assistance has failed to bring about a capable government or quell the Taliban and other armed opposition groups.
There is always the risk that the armed actors, both the guerrillas and the military, could obstruct progress on this crucial matter.
This time, the non-Pashtun communities are better armed and prepared to defend their interests after the US withdrawal.
“Politically active women, those who did not follow a strict dress code, and women human rights defenders were increasingly at risk of abuse, including by armed groups and religious extremists,” Amnesty International said in its 2007 report.
Japan armed itself only lightly (restricting military expenditures to about 1% of GNP), and focused on economic growth.
The Japanese have fairly large armed forces, but are hampered by a pacifist constitution written by Americans in 1946.
They find it hard to negotiate peace in a world that approaches them armed with the hateful echoes of medieval superstition.
Homeless at HomeToday, the United Nations estimates that 77 million people – more than 1% of the world’s population – are displaced within their own countries, having been forced to flee their homes by armed conflicts, violence, urbanization, development, and natural disasters.
With the increasing pattern of internal, rather than international, armed conflicts, and the rising regularity of extreme weather events affecting millions of people, internal displacement poses an even greater challenge to future generations.
Moreover, violent armed groups, be they government-supported militias or rebel movements, increasingly embrace terror as a tactic to force civilians from their homes, as seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Iraq, and elsewhere.
Otherwise, smaller groups of armed militants – supported, or even manipulated, by external actors – will dictate Syria’s future.
Dozens of ethnically based armed groups called Mai-Mai prey on local populations.
Sudan government aircraft and government-supported troops (known as jangaweed) retaliated against not only armed rebels but also against civilians deemed to be supporting them.
Intervention in such circumstances can take any number of forms, from public rhetoric and private diplomacy to economic and political sanctions to armed intervention.
When unrest erupted, Saudi Arabia reportedly dispatched military units to bolster Bahrain’s paltry armed forces.
In its 2009 intelligence assessment (the TE-SAT Terrorism Situation and Trend Report), Europol concluded that “Pakistan [has] replaced Iraq as preferred destinations for volunteers wishing to engage in armed conflict.”
The interwar period, which suffered from a similar crisis of leadership, produced not only a collapse of globalization, but a devastating armed conflict on a global scale.
More than 100,000 people from these communities immediately joined the Peruvian armed forces, thus quadrupling the military’s size overnight.
Some very clever policemen found him on the second floor of a dance studio, and arrested him without firing a shot, because he did not have a single armed guard left to protect him.
By presenting the settlements' evacuation as a unilateral step, Sharon allows Palestinian militants to present it as Israel bowing to the "reality" of defeat inflicted by their armed struggle.
Reductions in Germany’s armed forces and disavowal of weapons of mass destruction were written into the treaties that reunified Germany.
The spate of armed clashes along the border this year stems from PAD provocations.
Together with other aid agencies, IRC staff formed a convoy and MONUC offered armed vehicles to protect it.
But when armed men stopped the convoy on the road, the Uruguayan peacekeepers from MONUC simply turned around and vanished, leaving the aid workers to their fate.
Now consider what an expanded UNIFIL is mandated to do under Resolution 1701: peacekeepers must monitor the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah; support and accompany the Lebanese armed forces as they deploy in southern Lebanon; assist Lebanon’s government in securing the country’s borders and ports to keep illegal weapons from getting into Hezbollah’s hands; and “help ensure humanitarian access to civilian populations and the voluntary and safe return of displaced persons.”
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