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...Fierce firefights have raged across the country since last Wednesday's announcement that a "peace deal" will be signed on Monday, as Albanian nationalist guerrillas press to expand their range of operations despite NATO?s hopes of persuading them to disarm once a new political order has been negotiated. And the escalation of fighting threatens to turn Monday's political agreement - if the two sides are still able to sign by then - into a sideshow. The immediate problem may be that the agreement being painstakingly brokered by EU representative Francois Leotard and U.S. envoy James Pardew does not involve...
...Zionism is racism" is different. It's something of a red herring, coming as it does a decade after the repeal of the U.N. resolution condemning the Jewish nationalist ideology that drove the creation of modern Israel. The issue has been revived for the racism conference in order to build diplomatic support for the plight of the Palestinians, and even a number of human rights groups fiercely critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians under occupation have warned that it's an inappropriate discussion that could derail the conference's objectives. Of course, that doesn't get Israel...
...appointing the cronies of her businessman husband in key economic positions. It's too early to tell which way she's going to go. It's a positive sign that she has a vice president from one of the Muslim parties, who are seen as a counterbalance to the nationalist element in Indonesian politics. Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, and having a Muslim vice president is helpful because many of the Islamic parties had previously opposed her on the grounds that a woman should not be leader of a Muslim country...
...Presumably after East Timor, there will be a higher level of international scrutiny of Indonesia's responses to separatist movements, and pressure for restraint. At the same time, Indonesia desperately needs economic assistance from the West. Could there be a tension between her economic objectives and her nationalist objectives...
...Western peacekeeping troops in the Balkans has stabilized Bosnia and Kosovo (except, of course, for those unfortunate enough to belong to any of the territory?s non-Albanian minorities). But the nation-building project remains somewhat stillborn: democratic elections in the various ethnic cantons of Bosnia routinely return ultra-nationalist governments who show little interest in moving the territory towards any sort of multicultural melting pot. And in Kosovo, even though the moderate Ibrahim Rugova trounced the hawks of the erstwhile Kosovo Liberation Army at the polls in local elections, it is those hawks that continue to set the agenda...