The spread of disease was a major secondary disaster.

For Iran and its Hezbollah clients, the fall of Assad would be nothing short of a calamity one with far reaching consequences.

And it is Europe and America that are marching, alone and together, to the denouement of a grand debacle.

However, in neighboring Haiti, where the epicenter was located, the situation was total disaster as the earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck.

Already feeling the heat of a major diplomatic debacle, Israel might soon pre empt the Palestinian diplomatic offensive with a peace plan of its own.

Any country inside or outside the Union affected by a major disaster can make an appeal for assistance through the MIC.

As the Greek domino falls, countries like Portugal, Spain, or Italy start tumbling, and a small economy s crisis turns into a major European calamity.

Indeed, US military withdrawal from Iraq can be accomplished without causing a major regional catastrophe only if America manages to establish such a minimum of regional stability.

This is the largest metropolitan area disaster in decades, and it was not a natural disaster it was a disaster of engineering.

It's a catastrophe.

Expanded outreach by around 12,500 aid workers has averted a humanitarian catastrophe, with no major outbreaks of disease or famine reported.

Conscious of the long term nature of the consequences of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was a major technological catastrophe in terms of its scope and created humanitarian, environmental, social, economic and health consequences in the affected countries,

NATO is still nice to have around. But, with the exception of those who have only just joined, few governments on either side of the Atlantic seem to fear major disaster if it gently faded away.

... and then a catastrophe happened.

Ending Child Marriage

Sami's own life is a complete disaster.

Mutant Chernobyl Style

We are facing a violent crisis.

We are facing a violent crisis.

As a result, the likelihood of another disaster on the scale of Fukushima has been reduced.

It matters and will continue to matter in the European Council and the European Parliament.

America s Debt Ceiling Debacle

A new catastrophe befalls the Arab world.

Indian Ocean tsunami

We face an analogous situation today.

The Great Backlash

A Grand Bargain with Iran

A Big Chance for Small Farmers

Big Countries, Small Wars

A Grand Unified Economic Theory?

It is a major and urgent problem.

That's a tragedy for those populations, but it's also a tragedy for the people eating them because they don't know that that's toxic meat.

And yet Europe is facing a calamity.

Changes everything.

The war started as a total disaster for Romania.

Aftermath The battle was a disaster for the Japanese.

Big Reform in Small Packages

But then Geithner takes a leap.

One reason is that there is no reliable way to render an instant judgment about economic effectiveness, and the legacy that Obama inherited coming to office in the middle of a major economic and financial catastrophe clearly matters.

It is more than a tragedy it is a major disaster in every possible meaning of the word. It is a disaster unprecedented in the annals of human history.

The recent tsunami, caused by an earthquake, was an unprecedented natural disaster with extensive and devastating effects.

Context is vital.

Consider three major historical trends.

This implies major macroeconomic reforms.

Small Economies, Big Problems, and Global Interdependence