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A ceasefire is critical, because the fighting serves the interests of the most brutal elements on both sides of the conflict.
As in any civil war, such entrepreneurs of violence become increasingly likely to carry the day the longer the conflict endures.
Biden, while reaffirming that the US does not view China as an enemy, implied that Fu’s worries are not fanciful, saying that the worst scenario is a misunderstanding that leads to an unintended conflict.
When such figures – nationalists and populists – have been left to guide policy in the past, the result has been large-scale conflict.
Casting doubt on these structures, which have sustained stability over the last seven decades, would merely fuel more nationalism and competition, opening the way for volatility and conflict.
Having established itself as the main broker in the conflict, the European Union has many urgent priorities in Georgia itself.
And the conflict itself has shown that the Russian Black Sea Fleet, based in Sevastopol, can operate with impunity, whether Ukraine likes it or not.
In each of these projects, experts wrote dozens of research papers examining how best to spend resources on a variety of issues, from armed conflict and biodiversity destruction to infectious disease and sanitation.
Shared geography does not mean shared culture, as the conflict in Syria clearly demonstrates.
But the UK is creating the impression that it has no such vision, creating a vicious cycle in which decisions increasingly seem to conflict with our interests, fueling more grievances.
Of course, Netanyahu is intentionally exaggerating the Iranian threat to deflect attention from Israel’s real problems – especially its enduring conflict with Palestine.
It is an idea whose time has come, because there is no longer an alternative path from conflict.
Cyprus has long been divided between the Greek Cypriot majority in the south and the Turkish Cypriot minority in the north; it is thus in some sense a miniature of the larger and long-standing conflict between Greece and Turkey.
It is not easy to see how a crisis can now be avoided, or how the European Union can get out of what is really a primitive and atavistic conflict between Greeks and Turks.
The results have not only created a conflict between US federal law and state legislation, but also signal a shift in attitudes not dissimilar to that concerning same-sex marriage.
Realistic conflict management will replace utopian hopes for conflict resolution.
Economic failure could fuel further nationalist, xenophobic tendencies – and even trigger military conflict.
The second major conflict of interest in China is between the central and local governments, which are supposed to be adjusting their revenue-sharing model.
A woman might have reminded those threatening Gbagbo with war that when the conflict begins, men will take the fight into the jungle, leaving women behind to take care of children.
Yes, Russia’s relations with the United States, and now also with the UK, are worse than in the 1950s, and the chance of a direct conflict is higher than at any time since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
He believes that he is doing the right thing and following the prudent course in waiting for the Syrian conflict to burn itself out in some way while minimizing the long-term risk to American lives.
And perhaps it would do no good; it might save a few lives, they argue, but, with so many different countries fighting a proxy war via so many different groups of opposition fighters, it would not change the overall dynamic of the conflict.
No one points out the huge opportunity cost of what could have been and what could still be – albeit barely – if the US took decisive action to save tens of thousands of Syrian lives and possibly tip the balance of the conflict.
The devastating and widening conflict in Syria does not present any good choices, only choices between bad and worse.
Are cyber-attacks the wave of the future, or can norms be developed to control international cyber conflict?
That group initially produced meager results; but, by July 2015, it issued a report, endorsed by the G20, that proposed norms for limiting conflict and confidence-building measures.
The US and like-minded states pressed for further clarification of the earlier agreement that international laws of armed conflict, including the right of self-defense, apply in cyber space, but China, Russia, and their allies were reluctant to agree.
The EU’s approach to sharing power, hammering out agreements, and resolving conflict by multiple committees can be frustrating and lacks drama, but it is increasingly relevant for many issues in a networked and interdependent world.
Militant Palestinians and Lebanese know that a captured Israeli soldier or civilian is either a cause of conflict or a valuable bargaining chip for prisoner exchange.
Tragically, the current conflict is part of the inevitably repetitive cycle of violence that results from the absence of a comprehensive settlement in the Middle East, exacerbated by the almost unprecedented six-year absence of any real effort to achieve such a goal.
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