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But it makes little sense to cast blame on Saudi Arabia, which entered the conflict not to project power, but to neutralize an acute security – even existential – threat.
Just as importantly, there cannot be any conflict of interest (or even the perception of such a conflict) with other personal or political activities, past or present.
To this end, it makes use of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but also of Lebanon, Syria, its influence in the Gulf region, and, above all, Iraq.
To believe that Europe could keep out of this conflict is a dangerous illusion.
After all, the issue at the heart of this conflict is this: who dominates the Middle East – Iran or the United States?
The biggest trade conflict is between the US and China.
After decades of conflict, it seems that the Arabs have not given up their goal of making all of Palestine into an Arab state.
According to this equation the conflict between Jews and Arabs replicates the conflicts between colonial settlers and indigenous peoples.
Arab rhetoric often takes the colonial experiences of Algeria and South Africa as models for their conflict with Zionism.
A permanent end to the conflict over Palestine will not be possible until the Palestinian Arabs and their allies become convinced that the failure of colonialism in countries like Algeria and South Africa is not a relevant lesson for them.
The negotiating formula of "land for peace" and "breakthroughs" like the Oslo accords failed to dampen the conflict because the Arabs understandably interpret Israeli concessions as signs of weakness.
Were Russian guilt for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to be established, Putin’s depiction of his country as a bystander in the Ukrainian conflict would be exposed as a lie.
In addition to its exposure to liability for damage caused during the conflict in Ukraine, Russia faces legal penalties totaling roughly 4% of its GDP – roughly what it spends on education.
With people of various income levels increasingly divided by geography, income inequality can worsen and the risk of social polarization – and even serious conflict – can grow.
The Sixth Fatah Congress, the first in sixteen years, will take place in August 2005 and will seek to reconcile the conflict between the Old and Young Guard.
After painstaking talks, the parties in the Ukraine conflict come to an agreement – only to have it fall apart or fail to be fully implemented.
The usual diagnosis for the repeated failure to forge a lasting agreement is a lack of trust on both sides of the conflict, for which the usual prescription is to introduce a series of confidence-building measures.
To be sure, there are cases where the absence of trust-building efforts could partly explain why a conflict drags on.
Yes, such measures have helped to maintain open lines of communication, preventing small disputes from escalating into violent conflict.
But, despite the best efforts of the OSCE, the European Union, the United States, Ukraine, and even Russia, the conflict is no closer to a settlement than it was when the process began.
Neither the elite nor the public, on either side of the conflict, see a realistic chance for rapprochement in the near future.
Second, confidence-building, to some extent, has worked against an ultimate settlement of the conflict.
Technical expertise is needed to design and implement measures that are part of a strategic vision to end the conflict.
Confidence-building measures can help to stabilize a conflict, but the stability they generate is often fragile and temporary.
In an environment like that in Ukraine, there is a risk that such measures will sustain, not end, the conflict.
If China and Russia cannot be treated as friends, conflict can be managed by recognizing their different interests, by constant vigilance, and by maintaining the strength of our own democratic institutions.
By contrast, the rest of the region’s experiences – which involve a long history of autocratic governance and neglect of long-simmering grievances – have fanned the flames of conflict.
With the region seemingly being sucked deeper into a vortex of permanent conflict, it is easy to believe that only dictators or religious bigots could impose any stability.
It failed to end the long-standing Palestinian conflict, and it created new problems by dismantling the Iraqi state, funding mujahedeen in Afghanistan, and backing dictators who supported its security agenda in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and elsewhere.
The peaceful vote in Montenegro last weekend may presage conflict and difficult decisions about independence, but chances are strong that the parties will settle these matters by talking rather than fighting.
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