Crumbling BRICS

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The failure to agree on a new constitution fractured the coalition government and divided the country.

Nobody, it appears, can put Humpty Dumpty Iraq together again.

It is easy to be swayed by arguments about how costly such market fragmentation would be.

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Only then will we understand why the unified view of five years ago has fractured so violently.

This decline is reflected partly in the erosion of socio political structures and thus an easing of social control, and partly in the gradual disappearance of the cultures upon which those structures were based.

The once unified opposition to the Mubarak regime has become fragmented, with each faction defending its own interests and advocating its own version of the revolution s goals.

Meanwhile, the result of Iran s presidential election was effectively hijacked, which in turn fractured the ruling elite and left the rulers more suspicious and insular than at any time since the Iran Iraq war of the 1980 s.

Moreover, the fragmentation of the property records management activities undermines the Organization's efforts to establish global equipment and materiel management capability and its ability to analyse existing trends and to promulgate recommendations for action and planning in a timely manner.

As Iraq moved through progressive phases of mismanagement over the subsequent ten agonizing years, the country fractured, shattering the dreams of Iraqis who saw their beloved homeland once again sliding toward authoritarianism, with almost daily violations of the constitution.

The secular liberal forces political fragmentation and lack of organization cost them dearly in the parliamentary elections six months ago, and, in the second round of the presidential election, a majority of Egyptians chose Morsi over a restoration of the old regime.

In Greece, the party system s dangerous fragmentation into a range of smaller groups, combined with the robust emergence of a new anti austerity left, Alexis Tsipras s Syriza, and a neo Nazi right, has plunged governance into to a state of total paralysis.

It is easy to be swayed by arguments about how costly such market fragmentation would be. Deutsche Bank chief Josef Ackermann has gone so far as to warn that moving in this direction would leave us all poor.

DENVER In a region where crises seem to be the norm, the Middle East s latest cycle of violence suggests that something bigger is afoot the beginning of the dissolution of the Arab nation state, reflected in the growing fragmentation of Sunni Arabia.

The failure to agree on a new constitution fractured the coalition government and divided the country. By 2007, when Kibaki was up for re election, Kenyans were far less optimistic about their country s future than when he took office.

Moreover, the social unrest that often accompanies economic strife could cause countries to fragment into smaller units that fight one another over values or resources. To some extent, this is already occurring, with Iraq and Syria splintering into sectarian or tribal units.

It would be wrong to think that these practices have stopped they have merely subsided, since the fragmentation of the Moroccan political scene, with thirty three parties competing in the 2007 elections and a few other who haven't bothered, means that no clear opposition, save of course the PJD, emerges.

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The eurozone banking system is becoming balkanized, as cross border and interbank credit lines are cut off, and capital flight could turn into a full run on periphery banks if, as is likely, Greece stages a disorderly euro exit in the next few months.