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India suffered caste conflicts, clashes over the rights of different linguistic groups, religious riots (mainly between Hindus and Muslims), and separatist threats.
The president’s domestic agenda is bold and revolutionary, but it clashes frontally with the most fundamental tenets of America’s liberal and individualistic ethos.
The political passions aroused by the clashes of interpretation often make the crisis seemingly insoluble.
Westernize the Black Sea RegionThe bloody end to the schoolhouse hostage crisis in North Ossetia, and recent clashes in Georgia between government troops and separatist forces, have put the troubled Black Sea region on the front pages of newspapers once again.
Indeed, Europe will be the major sufferer in the new currency clashes.
By contrast, Sunni-Shia clashes – including killings, arson, and other violence – were common during al-Musta’sim’s rule.
Politics complicates matters further, because the exclusively short-term focus on the fiscal impact of spending and revenues clashes with policies whose benefits accumulate over time.
With the Crown Prince’s death, schisms are particularly threatening to the Kingdom’s stability (and that of oil exports), because the ruling Al Saud have swelled to 22,000 members, which has given rise to factional clashes among increasingly numerous claimants to power.
Sectarian violence is once again consuming Iraq, while clashes between anti-regime factions in Syria are becoming ever more frequent, with Islamists seeking to gain the upper hand ahead of the political transition that would occur should the government collapse.
These clashes generated images of white brutality that made at least some whites reconsider their unconditional defense of “law and order” under Jim Crow.
In fact, in just the last few days, internecine clashes have left more than 700 dead.
The Enlightenment idea that our System-II rationality can always point to an optimal choice about which every reasonable individual would agree clashes with the widely accepted modern idea that there is a plurality of reasonable choices.
From attacks against Western governments to ethnic clashes in remote desert oases, Libya’s revolution is faltering.
Hundreds have been injured in street clashes in Cairo.
Of course, cultural clashes during high-level international visits are not out of the ordinary.
In West Africa or the Middle East, Central Asia or India, this, too, can contribute to abating clashes over water.
Yet it seems just as clear that the pursuit of extreme measures by any party will surely lead to wider and worse clashes.
Instead, the tradeoff must be quantified in approximate and reasonably accessible terms to facilitate productive debate and preempt polarized ideological clashes that have little hope of resolution.
But that does not mean that clashes are inevitable.
But continental integration clashes with a powerful trend in Russia: reintegration with Kazakhstan and Belarus, at almost any cost with the latter.
As US and South Korean forces would most likely be operating on the same territory, they will need to avoid misperceptions or mistakes that could cause unintended clashes.
In Ukraine, violent clashes between pro-Russian separatists and the police are just the latest development in the country’s deteriorating security situation.
Clashes between Greek and Turkish military aircraft in the Aegean remain frequent.
Living on a VolcanoAs I write this, violent clashes with the police have been going on for nearly two weeks in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities, with cars being set on fire at a rate of nearly 1,000 per night.
India will certainly see more anti-nuclear clashes in 2012.
If such military clashes left China with so much as a bloodied nose, as happened in the same area in 1967, it could spell serious trouble for Xi at the upcoming National Congress.
Events in Cyprus have exposed two other dimensions to the clashes over Europe’s dual sovereign-debt and banking crisis.
The timing and location of the clashes may have serious repercussions for domestic security, if not for the regime itself.
Kyrgyzstan, one of the poorest post-Soviet countries in Central Asia, has no obvious separatism-related problems, though it struggles with ethnic tensions in its south, where clashes between local Uzbeks and Kyrgyz in 2010 left more than 400 people dead.
Tribal and militia leaders in oil-rich eastern Libya declared autonomy in March, and violent clashes between armed groups persist.
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