Word: statelets
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...shifted to the right. Although less "p.c." than she appeared a year ago, Prime Minister Clark can still sound like a denizen of Helengrad. New Zealand's Labor-led government has taken quite a different diplomatic and military approach, its impeccable morality matching its near irrelevance as a Polynesian statelet in the broader realm of world affairs. Just on the political surface, never mind what the Sir Humphreys are doing, Australia has Alexander Downer and Kevin Rudd leading the foreign affairs debate. Winston Peters? Say no more...
...zone into a wider Iraq in which they're a minority; instead they want to expand it to take in the northern oil towns of Mosul and Kirkuk and expel the Arab population settled there by Saddam Hussein over the past two decades. A Kurdish statelet in the north is anathema to the Shiites and Sunni, and Turkey - which regards Kurdish self-determination as a mortal threat to its own naitonal security - has signaled that it would be prepared to invade to prevent such an outcome. Turkish prime minister Recip Erdogan left Washington last Wednesday plainly unconvinced by President Bush...
...suffering population. People worried about getting kerosene in the winter or medicines for sick relatives. And they watched, bitterly, as ministers built grand dachas and drove around in Mercedes. Shevardnadze talked of anticorruption committees, but no official was ever prosecuted. Ongoing complications in the relationship between Russia and separatist statelet Abkhazia, after violence broke out in a remote part of that region in October, have further confused Shevardnadze's position...
...inside hostile territory outside the borders of Israel proper is unappealing, and he's long advocated consolidating settlements in areas adjacent to Israel that can be annexed in order to create new, defensible borders. But that option is singularly unattractive for Arafat, for whom it would mean a tiny statelet lacking in territorial integrity and economic viability. Still, the latest attack shows that the fate of the Palestinians and their relationship with Israel is no longer simply in the hands of Arafat and Barak...