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Indeed, whether or not its leaders acknowledge it, the European Union is now in direct conflict with Russia over its enlargement policy since the end of the Cold War.
Millions of Africans, in more than a dozen countries, are facing similar struggles, as failed harvests and persistent conflict fuel severe food insecurity.
This has bred corrupt and repressive governments and armed conflict.
Thus, the current conflict is essentially a pre-emptive war by Hamas – aggravated by lawlessness and banditry, clashing free-lance militias, tribes, and families, and a spiral of senseless massacres – to prevent Fatah from being turned by the international community into a formidable challenger to its democratic right to govern.
For the building blocks of a renewed peace process to be sustainable, an international force must be deployed along Gaza’s border with Egypt to prevent the constant smuggling of weapons and isolate the conflict.
The latest scandal, for example, cost Hollande a key adviser, who was forced to resign after left-wing media exposed a conflict of interest.
Turkey – locked in conflict with Russia, estranged from Egypt and Iran, and pursuing policies on Syria, the Islamic State (ISIS), and the Kurds that clash with those of its NATO allies – has lately found itself increasingly isolated in a sea of chaos.
Beyond closing the aid gap, United Nations Special Envoy on Education Gordon Brown has rightly called for financing mechanisms to deliver education to children affected by conflict and humanitarian emergencies.
Creditor-debtor conflict has been the stuff of politics since Babylonian times.
When quantitative precision and an unyielding approach to debt obligations are the rule, conflict and penury soon follow.
Even before the Ukraine conflict began in 2014, there were growing signs of a brewing confrontation between rival blocs.
Moreover, the nature of conflict, as Ukraine has demonstrated, has changed dramatically.
Unlike European leaders such as Joschka Fischer, Germany's Foreign Minister, the US excludes the Israeli-Arab conflict from the initiative, and wants to concentrate solely on the social and economic problems that feed extremism and terrorism in the Islamic world.
By calling a referendum, Britain has introduced a deep and fundamental conflict into its political sphere.
In 1939, the Cambridge University economist Claude Guillebaud published The Economic Recovery of Germany, which argued that the German economy was quite robust and would not collapse from overstrain or overheating in the event of a military conflict.
For example, Indonesian officials have encouraged reform in Myanmar, helped to bring about an end to the border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia, and pushed for democracy and human rights to be enshrined in an ASEAN political and security community.
High background poverty rates – already in excess of 50% in the northeast – exacerbate the effects of conflict and displacement.
The combination of conflict, destruction of education infrastructure (around 1,200 schools have been destroyed), and Boko Haram’s attacks on schoolchildren – most notoriously with the 2014 abduction of 276 girls from Chibok – has forced half a million students to abandon their studies.
However, Cyprus remains a conflict zone: there are still fortified streets in Nicosia, a United Nations peacekeeping operation patrols the buffer zone, and there is a substantial Turkish military force in the north.
Accelerating this shift is the replacement of interstate war by armed conflict involving non-state actors such as insurgent groups, terrorist networks, militias, and criminal organizations.
This kind of warfare emerged largely in response to America’s overwhelming conventional military advantage after the Soviet Union’s collapse, underscored by its victory in the 1991 Iraq War, with only 148 American casualties, and its intervention in the 1999 conflict in Kosovo, in which no American lives were lost.
Moreover, the transition to a pluralist system that channels, rather than suppresses, political conflict would indeed be risky, though the risk will grow the longer one-party rule (and the endemic corruption that accompanies it) persists.
And, as a rule, such states then try to safeguard their interests by imposing their predominance (hegemony), which is a recipe for dangerous conflict if based on coercion rather than cooperation.
While we are all working to assist in finding an Afghan-led political solution to this conflict, the fighting is not going to stop immediately.
We are all aware that an end to the Afghan people’s suffering requires an end to the conflict.
An end to civilian casualties could also help to create an atmosphere in which all sides begin to develop the mutual confidence essential to taking the next step – talking to each other to find a way to end the conflict – an outcome that is both necessary and possible.
Obama’s priority is not to be dragged into another conflict.
But what if the two targets are in conflict?
Looser lending rules would conflict with the higher cost of money.
We are not fighters in this conflict.
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