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05 Oct 09
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Sierra Leone
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Tyranny is nothing new in Sierra Leone or in the rest of West Africa. But it is now part and parcel of an increasing lawlessness that is far more significant than any coup, rebel incursion, or episodic experiment in democracy
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The cities of West Africa at night are some of the unsafest places in the world.
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Disease, overpopulation, unprovoked crime, scarcity of resources, refugee migrations, the increasing erosion of nation-states and international borders, and the empowerment of private armies, security firms, and international drug cartels are now most tellingly demonstrated through a West African prism.
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the withering away of central governments, the rise of tribal and regional domains, the unchecked spread of disease, and the growing pervasiveness of war.
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to fill in the blanks of a new political atlas
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The environment, I will argue, is part of a terrifying array of problems that will define a new threat to our security, filling the hole in Mandelbaum's doughnut and allowing a post- Cold War foreign policy to emerge inexorably by need rather than by design.
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Caucasus is a flashpoint of cultural and racial war.
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the Balkans, a powder keg
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The breaking apart and remaking of the atlas is only now beginning.
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Islam's very militancy makes it attractive to the downtrodden.
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It is the one religion that is prepared to fight
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shantytowns in Turkey
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Eritrean guerrillas
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"northern Iraq"
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Caucasus controlled by a local mafia-
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led me to develop a healthy skepticism toward maps,
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Kurds
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the outcome of the Turkish-Kurdish dispute will be more critical to the future of the Middle East than the eventual outcome of the recent Israeli-Palestinian agreement.
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Much of the Arab world, however, will undergo alteration, as Islam spreads across artificial frontiers, fueled by mass migrations into the cities and a soaring birth rate of more than 3.2 perce
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Israel is destined to be a Jewish ethnic fortress amid a vast and volatile realm of Islam
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"Oh, what a relief to fight, to fight enemies who defend themselves, enemies who are awake!" Andre Malraux wrote in Man's Fate. I cannot think of a more suitable battle cry for many combatants in the early decades of the twenty-first century.
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Liberia, Bosnia, the Caucasus, and Sri Lanka
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less and less "politics" today in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, the Balkans, and the Caucasus, among other places.
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both India and Pakistan are increasingly dysfunctional.
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Issues like West Africa could yet emerge as a new kind of foreign-policy issue, further eroding America's domestic peace.
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05 Dec 07
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18 Oct 06
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19 Jul 06
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06 Sep 05
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How scarcity, crime, overpopulation, tribalism, and disease are rapidly destroying the social fabric of our planet
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