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But the failure to achieve this goal is precisely where the superior power is defeated in asymmetrical conflicts.
These wars are creating a new kind of threat to Israel, for they add to the conflicts’ strictly military dimension the domains of diplomacy, regional politics, legitimacy, and international law, in which Israel does not have the upper hand.
As a result, in asymmetrical conflicts, Israel finds its military superiority vitiated.
But, if the country cannot resolve its long-running ethnic conflicts, all of this progress could be undone.
Indeed, Burma’s recent history has been plagued by ethnic violence and protracted conflicts with government forces, particularly in Karen, Shan, and Kachin states.
And two particularly violent, long-standing ethnic conflicts remain far from any resolution at all.
This sudden scarcity of an element whose symbolic and spiritual importance matches its centrality to human life will cause stress and exacerbate conflicts worldwide.
Conflicts may be inevitable; wars are not.
Our ability to prevent “water wars” will depend on our collective capacity to anticipate tensions, and to find the technical and institutional solutions to manage emerging conflicts.
Yet international water conflicts are only one side of the coin.
This could happen because, in the long run, the EU won’t be able to withstand its conflicts of interest and the resulting process of “renationalization” in all member states without suffering grave damage.
So, with China hardening its multiple sovereignty claims throughout the South and East China Seas, can any mechanism be found to resolve these conflicts peacefully?
For to end friction and suffering the crisis-ridden Middle East needs more than troops – a reality that has been recognized in previous conflicts around the World.
In all conflicts, human rights are among the first casualties, and in the Middle East the degradation of human dignity has now undone international conventions agreed over several generations.
With the brutal conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, and elsewhere constantly in the news, many people would probably say war.
This could rekindle security dilemmas and degenerate into uncontrolled conflicts.
Addressing conflicts among government coalition parties, as well as within individual government parties, was postponed until after official EU entry.
Not surprisingly, accession untied politicians' hands, and conflicts came to the fore.
The priority in everyone's minds is the present conflict; but until human well being becomes a universal priority, conflicts will continue to dominate interpersonal and international relations.
After all, neither donor countries nor their partners are exempt from such problems as corruption, political crises, armed conflicts, human rights abuses, vested interests, or international power politics.
Without aid funding, rising poverty and instability can draw developed countries into faraway conflicts and bring instability to their doorsteps, in the form of immigration and refugee crises, as well as pandemics.
Indeed, if conflicts in Asia become more virulent, Europe cannot expect the US to shoulder the burden of maintaining regional stability alone.
In fact, many armed conflicts, and the mass displacement they cause, can be traced back to food insecurity.
In European regions where minority groups were persecuted 500 years ago, ethnic and religious conflicts have been more pervasive in recent times.
Today, we can recognize the outlines of a post-American international (dis)order – not only its emerging structures, but also its risks, threats, and conflicts, all of which are intensifying.
While the memory of that civil war is now fading, the example of the conflicts in Syria and Libya – together with the political engagement of Islamist parties, such as the Movement for the Society of Peace – is enough to drive most young Algerians away from jihadism.
A system governed by such rules is prone to give rise to various social conflicts, and perhaps to violence.
These efforts are based on theories which were developed in the nineteenth century as a result of the economic and social conflicts produced by industrialization.
A renewed scramble for oil is raising fears of a new generation of geopolitical conflicts.
The near-unprecedented levels of inequality within countries today helps to explain the past decade of political upheaval and social strife, from the open-ended conflicts in the Middle East to the rise of populism and xenophobia in the West.
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