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In the last two years, conflicts have spilled over national borders, threatening global security.
When bloody conflicts erupted in Transdnistria, Abkhazia, and South-Ossetia, Russia turned its military presence into “peace-keeping” forces as a means of maintaining control.
It has long been feared that these so-called “frozen conflicts” could suddenly turn hot.
But there were also lingering conflicts in Croatia, notably in the Eastern Slavonia region, adjacent to Serbia.
The Internet, migration, trade, and the enforcement of international law will be turned into weapons in new conflicts, rather than governed effectively by global rules.
But the underlying causes for the rejection of Europe run much deeper than current conflicts.
Europe does not have armed conflicts.
In terms of symbols related to conflicts of interest, Trump has not yet mastered the art of political communication.
Finally, political Islam is common to all of the region’s conflicts, and should not be viewed – as it often is – in isolation from these countries’ economic woes.
And, more broadly, there is a growing awareness of how conflicts in the Middle East and demographic trends in Africa could threaten European stability.
Trump, driven by an obsession with Iran, seems intent on aggravating ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.
Moreover, the situation inside Turkey has worsened in recent years, with Turkish society becoming dangerously polarized under the strain of the escalating conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
"We are not even ready to forcefully meet conflicts on our own continent," Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski sighed.
In this context, the veto power conferred on the victors of World War Two was not concerned with "internal" conflicts among the member states; it extended only to threats to peace from countries outside the UN consensus.
Why Turkey's Army Will Stay HomeJust when the smoke from Turkey’s domestic political conflicts of the past year had begun to clear, another deadly attack by Kurdish separatists on Turkish soldiers has the government threatening military attacks inside northern Iraq.
Second, we should not pretend that Russia is a neutral peacekeeper in conflicts on its borders.
The Forgotten Twentieth-CenturyBERLIN – It has been 20 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which for many historians marked the real end of the “short twentieth century” – a century that, beginning in 1914, was characterized by protracted ideological conflicts among communism, fascism, and liberal democracy, until the latter seemed to have emerged fully victorious.
These same leaders now must tolerate – even facilitate – the creation of institutions to mediate the conflicts over these rights that inevitably result.
This is a good sign for a world with different power centers and interests, with resources and legitimacy remaining tied to the nation-state, but in which challenges (climate change, armed conflicts, pandemics, and transnational crime) are global and, therefore, require cooperation among states.
European integration cannot become all-consuming; a parochial Europe is vulnerable to unsettled regional conflicts and to globalization’s challenges.
The future it envisions will be defined wholly by conflicts between sovereign countries.
They immobilize fiscal policy, lead to serious distortions in the financial system, trigger political fights over taxation, and incite costly distributional conflicts.
Whether it is civil war, pogroms, or other armed conflicts, all too often women’s bodies become part of the battlefield.
Wolf recently excoriated the world’s big banks as an industry with an extraordinary “talent for privatising gains and socialising losses... [and] get[ting]... self-righteously angry when public officials... fail to come at once to their rescue when they get into (well-deserved) trouble....[T]he conflicts of interest created by large financial institutions are far harder to manage than in any other industry.”
Portraying negative coverage as “fake news” has helped Trump to distract from scandals big and small: his family’s conflicts of interest, his dodgy business deals around the world, white supremacists among his senior staff, the rejection of ethics training for senior White House staff, and much else.
For example, most modern societies, including postcommunist ones, favor a division between the makers of big money and the holders of high office because of the conflicts between public and private interest.
Moreover, football, more than long speeches or international resolutions, can help induce progress towards peaceful solutions for military conflicts.
Eventually, however, India has no choice: there are already sporadic riots over water shortage, while water tankers move under armed guard in some cities, and virulent conflicts arise between communities over water-sharing.
Still, not enough engineering expertise has been brought to bear in refugee settlements, whose populations have swelled in recent years as more people have had to flee from conflicts and natural disasters.
Perhaps this brand of cautious and gradual reformism is what the Arab world needs if it is to ameliorate its own polarizations and conflicts.
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