11/03/2009 |
Haiti 2009 - Stability at Risk
International Crisis Group Staff | International Crisis Group
A series of crises in 2008 have increased the potential for serious trouble in Haiti this year. The politically motivated, violent April riots against high living costs caused widespread disruption and suffering, toppled the government of Prime Minister Jacques-Édouard Alexis and forced postponement of a donor conference. ...
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11/03/2009 |
Iran - Rafsanjani and Iran's Foreign Policy and Domestic Situation
Stratfor Staff | Stratfor
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been re-elected head of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the country’s most powerful state organ. While Rafsanjani, Iran’s most prominent pragmatic conservative, consolidates his grip on Iran’s domestic political scene, he simultaneously is taking a proactive role in the most important element of Tehran’s foreign policy, something demonstrated by his recent weeklong visit to Iraq. These moves notwithstanding, Iran’s domestic politics and foreign policy will remain opaque until after its June presidential election. ...
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10/03/2009 |
China - echa el cerrojo en el Tíbet
David Jimenez | El Mundo
Pekín despliega miles de soldados en el 50º aniversario de la rebelión / El Gobierno impone el estado de excepción y expulsa a los turistas y a los reporteros. ...
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10/03/2009 |
Bosnia's Incomplete Transition: Between Dayton and Europe
International Crisis Group Staff | International Crisis Group
While Bosnia and Herzegovina’s time as an international protectorate is ending, which is in itself most welcome, now is the wrong time to rush the transition. The state put together by the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement after a long war will never be secure and able to take its place in the European Union (EU) until it is responsible for the consequences of its own decisions. But tensions are currently high and stability is deteriorating, as Bosniaks and Serbs play a zero-sum game to upset the Dayton settlement. Progress toward EU membership is stalled, and requirements set in 2008 for ending the protectorate have not been not met. ...
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10/03/2009 |
Guinea - The Transition Has Only Just Begun
International Crisis Group Staff | International Crisis Group
The military junta that took control of the country just hours after President Conté’s death on 23 December 2008 has tightened its grip on power. The self-proclaimed president, Moussa Dadis Camara, and his group of mid-ranking officers calling itself the National Council for Democracy and Development (Conseil national pour la démocratie et le développement, CNDD), have shown few signs of moving towards elections by the end of 2009 as promised. As Guinea’s dire economic prospects erode popular support, the junta, unpracticed in governing, is also in danger of resorting to authoritarian measures. With the risk of a counter-coup from dissatisfied army elements still present, a democratic transition at best faces a long and difficult road. Concerted national and international pressure is urgently needed to produce a return to civilian rule, even before elections if the junta begins to stall on preparations for a vote. ...
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10/03/2009 |
Madagascar's Army Issues 72-Hour Crisis Ultimatum
Reuters Staff | The Epoch Times
Madagascar's army gave the country's feuding leaders 72 hours on Tuesday to resolve a political crisis that has killed about 135 people and devastated the economy, or face an intervention by the military. ...
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10/03/2009 |
China - echa el cerrojo en el Tíbet
David Jimenez | El Mundo
Pekín despliega miles de soldados en el 50º aniversario de la rebelión / El Gobierno impone el estado de excepción y expulsa a los turistas y a los reporteros. ...
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10/03/2009 |
Bosnia's Incomplete Transition: Between Dayton and Europe
International Crisis Group Staff | International Crisis Group
While Bosnia and Herzegovina’s time as an international protectorate is ending, which is in itself most welcome, now is the wrong time to rush the transition. The state put together by the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement after a long war will never be secure and able to take its place in the European Union (EU) until it is responsible for the consequences of its own decisions. But tensions are currently high and stability is deteriorating, as Bosniaks and Serbs play a zero-sum game to upset the Dayton settlement. Progress toward EU membership is stalled, and requirements set in 2008 for ending the protectorate have not been not met. ...
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10/03/2009 |
Guinea - The Transition Has Only Just Begun
International Crisis Group Staff | International Crisis Group
The military junta that took control of the country just hours after President Conté’s death on 23 December 2008 has tightened its grip on power. The self-proclaimed president, Moussa Dadis Camara, and his group of mid-ranking officers calling itself the National Council for Democracy and Development (Conseil national pour la démocratie et le développement, CNDD), have shown few signs of moving towards elections by the end of 2009 as promised. As Guinea’s dire economic prospects erode popular support, the junta, unpracticed in governing, is also in danger of resorting to authoritarian measures. With the risk of a counter-coup from dissatisfied army elements still present, a democratic transition at best faces a long and difficult road. Concerted national and international pressure is urgently needed to produce a return to civilian rule, even before elections if the junta begins to stall on preparations for a vote. ...
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10/03/2009 |
Madagascar's Army Issues 72-Hour Crisis Ultimatum
Reuters Staff | The Epoch Times
Madagascar's army gave the country's feuding leaders 72 hours on Tuesday to resolve a political crisis that has killed about 135 people and devastated the economy, or face an intervention by the military. ...
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