There's a possibility of war.

There's a possibility of war.

When a war erupts, as in Darfur, most policymakers look for a political explanation and a political solution.

Inevitably, there were eruptions of social unrest.

It is in the oil rich border areas that a new war might erupt.

As Rudi Dornbusch, the late MIT economics professor, once warned, a crisis takes longer than expected to arrive but moves faster than anticipated when it does.

Although war is unlikely in the coming months, if sanctions on Iran don t bear fruit by early 2011, Israel might feel the need to act.

In such countries, there may be New Deals, but no revolutions.

Indeed and recent history has witnessed this repeatedly conflicts that have been resolved sometimes break out once again, due to a lack of attention on the part of the international community to post conflict situations, which are often characterized by fragile State institutions and a precarious economic situation.

Eighteen months ago, a war took place in Europe between Russia and Georgia. It was a little war, but one that raised big questions. It was not fought over the future status of Georgia s Russian backed breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia (though that source of conflict was a real one).

It also shows that, when a crisis erupts, there is no substitute for effective deterrence and defense.

Unless something very wrong happens, a new cold war is not about to start.

In that case, we would have to make do with organizing a truce until the next crisis.

Many began to wonder whether Hollande was aware of the scope of the crisis that the recent downturn might trigger.

In Darfur, recurrent drought has poisoned relations between farmers and nomadic herdsmen, and the war we are helplessly witnessing today follows years of escalating conflict.

This leaves them fighting the fires that break out, rather than managing the settings that sustain those fires.

She is then shown in the empty club, scenes of war breaking out flash by, and the lone soldier appears again.

The political stagnation there is fraught with the danger that hostilities might flare up again as the result of yet another armed incident.

We need them in any area where violence has taken place and where violence may erupt.

Before the crisis struck in 1998 he put in place measures giving him room to manipulate liquidity and interest rates.

But it is also possible that Tunisia is experiencing the Arab world s first ever bourgeois revolution.

Wars in the Middle East, it should be recalled, have started even when the parties did not really want them.

Governments want the ability to decide how best to protect their countries perceived national interests when a crisis strikes.

Hundreds of eyes beholding me, awaiting my signal to turn it into a protest, but they respect my grief and my decision.

The US and Iran could go to war not over nuclear issues but because of reckless behavior by the Revolutionary Guards (as occurred recently in the Strait of Hormuz), with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad possibly seeking to provoke a crisis in order to distract domestic attention from his economic failures.

They should. There are likely to be many more financial fires in various locations, and the world needs a fire brigade to put them out.

This did not stop the violence there, which has broken into war between India and Pakistan from time to time since.

TOKYO Revolutions, it is often claimed, do not happen when people are desperate. They occur in times of rising expectations.

There are new outbreaks of war and violence. Climate change ever more clearly threatens our planet.

That dictum, of course, should apply to everyone. But tensions will inevitably arise if China has no say in the creation of these rules.

In a charged and uncertain political climate, in which new crises erupt on a daily basis, it is unsurprising that economic reform has been postponed repeatedly.

On the contrary, should the negotiations fail, the confrontation will resurface in short order, and be far more dangerous.

Fears abound among Palestinians of another spasm of violence if no agreement is reached before Annapolis and this round of talks fails.

Instead of a democratic transformation, were the US to withdraw now, the Middle East would face a war of all against all for regional hegemony.

Education, it is said, cannot wait. Passing the hat when a crisis erupts is not the solution.

And, as is often the case, a crisis in one country may go global, with many other countries radically scaling back off shore and out of bounds projects.

Europe s leaders should refer to a paper by Otmar Issing, The Euro A Currency Without a State, published in December 2008, before the debt crisis erupted.

BRUSSELS A financial crisis erupts when a large volume of assets in the financial system suddenly appears to be risky and investors want to get rid of their holdings.

These were the Platine War, the Uruguayan War and the devastating Paraguayan War, the largest war effort in Brazilian history.

Against war and those against War.

Tired of war, both sides decided to end the war.

Climate change ever more clearly threatens our planet. We say that global problems demand global solutions.

Interethnic violence which many feared has largely been avoided, and the mass exodus of Serbs that some also predicted has not occurred.

This and later the Russian Civil War interrupted his education.

The plan for the Trial of European War Criminals was drafted by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and the War Department.