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Others will not protect Turkey; some may even promote strife within its borders (historical examples of such tactics abound).
Most importantly, a slowdown of this magnitude would put China below the 8% growth threshold that its leadership apparently believes is necessary to avert social strife.
Otherwise, the referendum to ratify the government’s proposed “MAS (Movement for Socialism) constitution” will only fuel more strife.
But the most dangerous approach – the one that would bring the most strife and insecurity – would be to continue pretending to be united, while acting independently.
That is why it is so intent on achieving annual economic growth of 8% or higher – the magic number that it believes will contain social strife.
The Oslo meeting also advanced work that is already underway to establish a cohesive response to the education crisis afflicting tens of millions of children caught up in war, civil strife, epidemics, and natural disasters.
Indeed, as in Iraq, Syria’s sectarian strife looks increasingly like a jihadist religious war.
The latter path could easily lead to civil strife and, perhaps, another civil war.
The Middle East’s Five CrisesThe region between Egypt and Pakistan is a cauldron of five discrete, explosive components: Iraq’s civil strife, Afghanistan’s insurgency, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the longstanding Israel-Arab conflict, and the risk of clashes between extremist groups and corrupt, repressive governments.
But nearly all of them are fleeing dire situations caused by interstate conflict, internal strife, natural disasters, and economic collapse.
Ethnic, religious, economic, and other forms of strife in these countries too often overshadow the objectives of effective governance and the delivery of the most basic services.
There is a long history of weather having a profound impact on civil strife as well.
I see cooperation to reach an ambitious global agreement on climate change, and to curb the strife in places like the Central African Republic, Colombia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Stabilizing the StansWASHINGTON, DC – Recent violence in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, following civil strife in Kyrgyzstan in 2010, has intensified international concern about Central Asia’s security as the region becomes increasingly important for delivering NATO supplies to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.
At a time when the Middle East is aflame with sectarian strife, the observance of the Christian holiday is a sad reminder that the region’s distinctive religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity is rapidly disappearing.
But evolutionary psychology, which stresses competition for females, can add another dimension to our understanding of these phenomena, while helping us to predict when and where civil strife might erupt.
In response, Harvard requested that it be placed “out of the reach of ordinary political strife and change” and into the “hands of alumni who have the interests of education most at heart.”
This tendency can be seen not just in the implosion of Syria and the spread of strife, displacement, and massive human suffering to neighboring countries.
In fact, disorder and civil strife will allow Syria’s corrupt elements to maintain and expand activities such as extortion and trafficking of illegal drugs and weapons.
The first lesson we should draw from this month of civil strife is that development, however well-managed, cannot solve everything.
The result is a poorly functioning sovereign-debt market, marked by unnecessary strife and costly delays in addressing problems when they arise.
For, if a two-state solution really is the future, a social and political earthquake of untold dimensions awaits Israelis: a massive evacuation of settlers and a desperate need for a difficult political realignment to deal with the threat of civil strife and perhaps even military disobedience.
But, even in that case, their flight probably would not end the strife.
During the 1980s and 1990s, half of the IMF's member developing countries endured severe financial crises and were forced to scale back social expenditures so that poverty, inequality and the potential for civil strife increased substantially.
Mahathir became prime minister in 1981 when the region was on the eve of historic change, following the end of the Vietnam War and Indonesia's stabilization following the bloody civil strife of the 1960's.
A considerable proportion of world hunger occurs in countries suffering from domestic strife or severe government dysfunction.
A narrow focus on shareholders’ interests would impel all other stakeholders to pursue their narrow interests as well, increasing strife and transaction costs.
People, instead, were to be freed from bondage to national collectivism, that fount of strife and enslaver of individuality.
Congo and Lesotho each experienced two conflicts during the decade, while civil strife ravaged Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Congo, and Sudan.
What about Nigeria, where other risks are amplified by civil strife?
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