Recently, Chinese commentators have provocatively referred to the inevitability of a de Americanized world.

A provocative book written by a Japanese mathematician has reignited the debate about whether there are specifically Asian values.

The collapse in 1940 revealed the fragility of France s democracy and its loss of confidence in the country s capacity to face outside threats.

The riots began after a provocative gunned attack on several cafés at the same time, and spread over other places in Istanbul and also in Ankara in the next days.

When peace appears to be close at hand, radicals on one side of the conflict or the other provoke an explosion to derail it.

Unfortunately, the response of the Russian Foreign Ministry, calling the resolution of the Parliament of Georgia provocative and counter productive , indicates that there is no political will to defreeze the conflict resolution process.

One example of such work is Badawi's piece, The Gaza Stripper , a provocative film about Ari Lauren Souad Said, a woman born of an Israeli mother and a Palestinian father spent much of her childhood torn between two conflicting faiths and cultures in Israel .

Every time North Korea acts provocatively testing nuclear bombs, launching missiles, touting its secretive uranium enrichment facilities, and killing South Korean soldiers and civilians China comes under diplomatic fire.

Young Muscovites march carrying banners that read Fuck the Caucasus! Young Caucasians, perceiving themselves as a winning side in the Northern Caucasus, behave in increasingly provocative and aggressive ways on the streets of Russian cities.

I would like to bring to your kind attention an unfortunate provocative incident that took place yesterday when the Greek Cypriot parliamentarian, Marios Matsakis, who is also a member of the European Parliament, removed the Turkish flag from an unmanned observation post in Akincilar village, violating also the integrity of the buffer zone in the course of his hostile action.