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Russia could also play the role of a "transatlantic integrator," mediating the various
conflicts
and differences in the traditional Atlantic community.
Separatism was never a threat here, but ever since the Soviet invasion in 1979, the country has been a theater of war for global and regional
conflicts.
Progress has been made on peace agreements with ethnic-minority insurgents –
conflicts
rooted in the divide-and-rule strategy of colonialism, which the country’s post-independence rulers maintained for more than six decades.
Protracted
conflicts
in Ukraine and Syria hint at a new Cold War between the US and Russia, and the turmoil in those countries, as well as elsewhere, is increasingly disrupting national economies and security regimes.
This group could chart a course for US-China relations in 2017, identify potential conflicts, and recommend solutions before tensions can reach a boiling point.
This reality
conflicts
with the portrayals that dominate news reports, which depict a modern China, a dynamic Indonesia, and a tourist-friendly Thailand.
In scenarios where individuals are shot while resisting arrest, the number of people who are wounded should – as in military
conflicts
– far exceed the number of people who are killed.
The current
conflicts
with North Korea (where he has called for preemptive military action) and Iran (where he has repeatedly proposed regime change by force) are no exceptions.
That means bolstering allies, rebalancing the energy relationship with Russia, defending the rules of international institutions, and renewing efforts to tackle “unresolved conflicts,” not only in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, but also in Transdniestria and Nagorno Karabakh.
The Levant has, of course, been the scene of countless
conflicts
through the centuries.
It is not difficult to imagine why the notion of a borderless, peaceful world in which political divisions and
conflicts
were overcome was deeply appealing after WWII.
And, apart from Russia, Europe is surrounded by ongoing
conflicts.
Unfortunately, in a world without common institutions to restrain sovereign states from escalating
conflicts
with one another, the risks of all-out war will increase substantially.
Even after Trump is long gone, soft power will not suffice in a world of hard-power
conflicts.
But, with their government unable to do anything about the expansion of Israeli settlements, including in East Jerusalem, as well as continued
conflicts
over holy sites in Hebron, Bethlehem, and the Al-Aksa mosque, West Bank Palestinians are extremely frustrated.
Moreover, there is a danger of debt and unpaid loans from projects that turn out to be economic “white elephants,” and security
conflicts
could bedevil projects that cross so many sovereign borders.
If it stops poking its nose into foreign conflicts, it will still have friends around the world.
And, in fact, the situation could worsen considerably, with so-called “frozen”
conflicts
heating up and reverting to armed confrontation.
For example, establishing a shared eurozone-level budget or unemployment-insurance regime would, at this stage, sow the seeds of future
conflicts.
To avoid distributional
conflicts
that would only poison the European project, any institutional reform that is proposed in the name of Franco-German cooperation should have to pass a strict sustainability test.
Finally, the world faces many serious challenges, ranging from the need to halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction, fight climate change, and maintain a functioning world economic order that promotes trade and investment to regulating practices in cyberspace, improving global health, and preventing armed
conflicts.
That is why some of the most sinister figures behind Russia’s other frozen conflicts, such as Lieutenant-General Vladimir Antyufeyev, the long-serving “state security minister” in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region, are now calling the shots among eastern Ukraine’s armed militants.
In the first half of the 20th century they succeeded in turning these
conflicts
into two World Wars, and Europe into a charnel house.
Europeans are now irrevocably committed to peaceful solutions for their own international problems, and they increasingly think that peaceful solutions, or at least partly peaceful solutions, will be useful for other peoples
' conflicts.
The Middle East is in the early phases of a modern-day Thirty Years’ War, in which political and religious loyalties are destined to fuel prolonged and sometimes savage
conflicts
within and across national borders.
Ironically, it was the continent’s resource wealth that hampered economic progress, as it fueled
conflicts
among governments and insurgents eager to control it.
Too many question marks about their national unity are said to exist, too many internal
conflicts
linger, and their records on political and judicial reforms are supposedly dubious.
The fact that Jolie made a film about war in Bosnia, and not in Macedonia, is largely due to Gligorov, the only leader of the former Yugoslavia to keep his newly independent country out of those
conflicts.
Much of Africa’s poverty is fueled by
conflicts.
In the course of my work over the past 30 years, I have observed that whether it is at the national or regional level, most
conflicts
are over resources.
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