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Likewise, long-standing tensions between Bahrain’s ruling Sunni minority and Shia majority have worsened since the country’s Shia-led pro-democracy movement was crushed in 2011.
(Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, may also benefit politically from escalating tensions as he seeks to lift his dismal approval ratings ahead of his reelection bid in March.)
But, by asserting that the vessels entered Russian waters illegally, not to mention escalating tensions with the West, Putin may be hoping to breathe new life into the siege narrative, thereby inspiring the kind of primitive patriotism on which he has long relied.
Turkey is facing a refugee crisis that dwarfs the one confronting Europe; a proliferation of terrorist attacks on its territory; and heightened tensions with the Kremlin, following its downing of a Russian warplane near its border with Syria in November.
For starters, Ukraine is riven by deep-seated cultural tensions, stemming from its history of occupation by competing foreign powers.
These countries have proven that they can live without their own monetary policies without severe tensions.
The US must leave Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby saving $150 billion per year for other purposes and reducing the tensions caused by military occupation.
If Iran and the Arab countries – and alongside them the US and the international community – do not manage today’s tensions wisely, the region could enter a period of protracted warfare.
But the fact remains that, if Trump’s heated protectionist rhetoric continues, the US will face a strong dollar, severely weakened exporters, and a much larger trade deficit – not to mention heightened tensions with a formidable China.
Now, as China rises and Japan declines, the old, deep-seated suspicions, tensions, and distrust are resurfacing.
These tensions further receded in the tide of the “Islamization” created by the Iranian revolution, for in its wake Arabs’ sectarian identity as Sunni was pushed further into the background as a generalized “Islamic” assertiveness appeared.
Tensions are also running high in the East China Sea, where the two countries dispute sovereignty over a number of islands.
But it lacks a sense of strategic urgency, which, given rising international tensions across Asia, amounts to a serious strategic blunder.
The sources of those tensions are clear: North Korea’s shelling of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island and its flaunting of a modern, previously unknown, nuclear plant; the US-led armada now cruising through the South China and Yellow Sea; and China’s claim that the South China Sea is an area of vital national interest akin to Tibet.
Yet their pursuit of a dominant position on the strategic chokepoints in the Indian Ocean undermines these goals by raising tensions not only with India, but with Asia’s other powers and the US.
More broadly, they can capitalize on escalating tensions between Sunni and Shia Muslims to attract alienated young Sunnis.
But, by re-claiming a position of influence in the economies and politics of adjacent countries, Russia risks creating political tensions with the European Union.
During a president’s second term – which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has now begun – the tensions inevitably emerge into public view.
If anything, the region has been moving in the wrong direction, with security tensions and even war (in Georgia last summer) increasingly frequent.
Over the next five years, China’s success will depend largely on how well the government’s complex agenda, and the tensions it entails, are managed.
Yet, given the regional context, Turkey’s internal tensions now represent a serious threat.
All sides must manage these tensions with great care and caution.
That is why, despite serious difficulties, Turkey has a good chance of overcoming its internal tensions and becoming the example that its Middle East neighbors (and perhaps a few of its European neighbors as well) so desperately need.
Already, longstanding tensions have begun to boil over; tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets since Putin’s 2011 announcement that he would reclaim the presidency.
But the crisis experience suggests that, in times of extreme market tensions, even a sound initial fiscal position may not offer absolute protection from spillovers.
As a result, tensions between the police, who are increasingly perceived as “outsiders,” and residents have grown to all-time highs.
The water crisis in Gaza is a cause of disease and suffering among Palestinians, and is a major source of underlying tensions between Palestine and Israel.
The so-called realists just don’t understand the sources of tensions and stresses that are leading to a growing number of crises around the world.
Much has been written about possible ecological shocks triggered by the impact of a growing human population’s demands on the biosphere, and about the social and political tensions stemming from resource scarcity or climate change.
Tensions in the Middle East are rising, and populist movements have appeared in Europe and the United States.
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