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I was part of that United Nations initiative called the Alliance of Civilizations, which was asked by Kofi Annan to diagnose the causes of extremism, and to give practical guidelines to member states about how to avoid the escalation of further extremism.
But the leaders in Asia do not feel the need to wave the flag, to go xenophobic, to actually allow escalation of the geopolitical and cross-border tensions.
Only in 2015, due to an escalation of war in countries like Libya, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen, the number of [land mine casualties] almost doubled, from 3,695 to 6,461 people.
The process of habituation also plays a key role in risk-taking and risk escalation.
Husband and wife heated discussions(or should I say fights?) were very realistic.The initial situation is a common one but the escalation into the story presented fortunately is not.I want to thank all who were involved in this great entertainment film.
From the chilling outset to the "knock you out of your seat" closing, Bava handles the breaknet speed of plot development and the whirlwind body count escalation with masterly finesse.
Just wanted to say to the guy who thought this film had a bad ending, you clearly don't understand the essence of escalation.
The basic plot contains a handful of ingenious ideas and the setting boosts an overall unsettling atmosphere, but the screenplay unfolds too grotesque and the escalation of the events are far too implausible.
Other reviewers seem to miss a motive for the atrocities, a reason for the escalation, apart from Ruths obvious derangement and general frustration with life, and ask why the others (especially since they're still kids) join in so easily.
Further escalation in the Middle East will culminate in these wretched alternatives sooner rather than later, unless a diplomatic solution is found (or unless diplomacy can at least buy time).
Above all, they could not break the frustrating diplomatic gridlock over Syria or stem the escalation in violence as the year went on.
Unions and agricultural groups tie up traffic with protests every other day, hinting at possible escalation.
Yet history need not repeat itself, so long as the West takes steps to avoid being trapped by any sudden escalation.
Those who believe that the West can adapt to Russian behavior, as Putin’s Western apologists suggest, risk contributing to further strategic escalation, because a soft approach will merely embolden the Kremlin.
Pakistan avoided political escalation when the judiciary decided to investigate the Panama Papers’ revelations.
Whenever this policy balance is lost, misperceptions arise, and little remains to counteract the risk of escalation.
No one should underestimate the challenges we face in this regard, especially given manifold crises – in eastern Ukraine, Syria, Libya, and elsewhere – at a time when we are not immune from renewed escalation or further setbacks.
In Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow, preventing bank failures, not military escalation, was the most pressing problem.
If no agreement on the last remaining issues is achieved, escalation will ensue: the Palestinians may declare independence unilaterally;Israel may retaliate; the delicate balance of Oslo may unravel.
Moreover, simple geography gives Putin the advantage in any escalation of the conflict in Ukraine.
With one-third of the Palestinians’ Hamas-led government now under arrest by Israel, the escalation in Israeli-Palestinian relations has moved beyond military confrontation.
It is often said that surplus countries will always be the biggest losers in any tit-for-tat escalation of tariffs and other barriers.
Potential obstacles abound: more aggressive monetary tightening, especially in the United States; a further escalation of protectionism; a harder-than-expected economic landing in China; and a return of tensions in the eurozone, triggered by concerns over the fate of Italian finances.
At the same time, public spending acts as a brake on overall spending, and prevents the rapid cost escalation to which America’s private insurance companies contribute.
Trump’s escalation of the trade war over the course of 2018 appears to have had the effect on the dollar predicted by economic theory.
But the potential for a free-trade agreement isn’t the point; what matters is the end to the escalation of tit-for-tat measures, set in motion by Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on US imports of European steel.
Given the complexity of today’s strategic nuclear weapons and the systems designed to neutralize them, one cannot rule out the possibility that some actor on either side, or a third party, could provoke escalation.
While it has retaliated, it has kept its actions proportionate, to avoid excessive escalation.
The next act in America’s political drama, following the 2018 congressional midterm election, could be marked by a kind of reckoning, with the 2020 presidential campaign accompanied by civic breakdown and the escalation of violent confrontation that has lingered beneath the surface for years.
That open-ended statement, without any clear means to achieve the goal that it announced, has done much to fuel military escalation and the rising death toll in Syria, while pushing the US repeatedly to defend its “credibility” against a line in the sand that it should not have drawn.
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