Six actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and none improved in December 2009, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group’s monthly bulletin CrisisWatch, released today.
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Bogotá/Brussels - The decision on whether to change the constitution to enable President Álvaro Uribe to seek a third consecutive term in 2010 will have important consequences for Colombia’s efforts to resolve its armed conflict and tensions with its neighbours.
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Damascus/Washington/Brussels - Syria’s foreign policy has long been a contradictory mix of militancy and pragmatism, but new dynamics create opportunities for the U.S. if it does more to deepen its engagement.
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Damascus/Brussels - U.S. diplomatic engagement with Syria risks losing momentum if it fails to build upon several potentially promising changes in Damascus’s policy.
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Bishkek/Brussels - Prisons in Central Asia are becoming hothouses for the growth of militant Islamism, threatening long-term stability in the region.
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For the third time since 1998 the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence (MoND) released its white paper and gave a detailed insight into budget matters and its defence posture regarding national as well as cross-border issues.
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Not many modern armed forces unite in their inventory, and particularly among their key assets, technology from two – in political terms – entirely opposite origins. It is more common in the countries of the former Soviet bloc where, since the fall of the iron curtain, Western technology slowly but ever increasingly found its way into countries primarily equipped with Russian weapon systems.
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WASHINGTON - Even as hundreds of Marines launched a new offensive in southern Afghanistan, top U.S government and military officials made the Sunday morning news-show circuit here today spelling out President Barack Obama’s new war strategy.
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Nairobi/Brussels - The stalled electoral process has plunged Somaliland into a serious political crisis that presents yet another risk of destabilisation in the region.
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Some long weeks, now it seems, have passed in which the world has tensely waited for the final decision of the “Commander-in-Chief” on how the United States future strategy for Afghanistan will look like.
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