There's a possibility of war.

There's a possibility of war.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Georgia was the first post Soviet country to stage a color revolution, and thus to demonstrate, with dignity and maturity, its people s choice for democracy and European values.

NEW YORK Until the recent bout of financial market turbulence, a variety of risky assets (including equities, government bonds, and commodities) had been rallying since last summer.

The Syria Iran Hamas Hezbollah axis would be emboldened in its challenge to American leadership in the region, and, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas humbled and defeated, a third Intifada would be a likely scenario.

In October 2010, Ármann Höskuldsson, a scientist at the University of Iceland Institute of Earth Sciences, stated that the eruption was officially over, although the area was still geothermally active and might erupt again.

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.

But the lesson of the last two decades is that attacks stop, and intifadas do not start, when there is a prospect of peace and that, when there is no such prospect, Palestinian militancy is uncontainable.

Before the next crisis erupts, we need to clarify the critical roles that all key actors including countries of origin and destination, neighboring states, businesses, and civil society should play.

For many, the extremists who criticized the Brotherhood and other Islamist parties for choosing a democratic route to power will have been vindicated, and a new wave of violence in the region may begin.

Ас satellite imagery from Fire Map, (a Russian website that shows where forest fires are currently burning across the globe) shows, when the smoke began to envelop Khabarovsk two weeks ago, fires were indeed mainly in Heilongjiang and the Jewish Autonomous Republic