Word: unrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...danger of such increasingly vocal unrest is that it could poison relations between states and thus slow down the pace of European integration. But many scholars argue plausibly that ethnic differences do not so much foreclose the future as point the way to it. Swiss Philosopher Denis de Rougement looks for a gradual emergence of new "communities of mutual interests" that transcend established frontiers. One such community might be the region bounded by Lyons and Grenoble in France and Geneva and Lausanne in Switzerland-four cities already united by proximity, language (French) and common commercial interests. Says De Rougement: "Europeans...
...phenomenon spans Europe from Britain, still grappling with Welsh and Scottish nationalism and the bloody war in Ulster, to the Soviet Union, troubled by ethnic unrest in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Yugoslavia, where uneasy equilibrium has been upset by a violent upsurge of Croatian nationalism, may be the only European nation whose existence as a single, unified state seems directly imperiled. But others have been rattled, to a greater or lesser degree, by a variety of unhappy minorities: Switzerland's Jura separatists, Sweden's Lapps, Rumania's Transylvanian Hungarians, France's Bretons and Corsicans, Spain...
...Sense. This tribal unrest has effectively shown that Europe's national boundaries no longer make much sense, if indeed they ever did. The present map of Europe was carved out by warring armies-and postwar diplomats-only in the past century and a half. In 1830 there were no such countries as Greece, Belgium or Norway. Italy and Germany are scarcely a century old, while Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia date back only to 1918. Underlying Europe's somewhat artificial frontiers is a patchwork of ancient tribal and economic enclaves divided by geography, culture and what Italian Sociologist Francesco Ferrarotti...
AFTER four years of civil unrest and more than 700 violent deaths, the troubles in Northern Ireland had seemed, for a few weeks at the beginning of the year, to be receding at last. The persistent and truculent tribalism that for so long had gripped that meanest corner of the British Isles seemed to be giving way if not to reason then to fatigue, or to an instinctive will on the part of the community to preserve something of itself...
...taken off under the austere stewardship of the rightist military regime of Colonel George Papadopoulos. The junta, which seized power in a bloodless 1967 coup, has wooed foreign investors with tax breaks and low-interest loans, and has helped to create a healthy business climate by ruthlessly suppressing political unrest. By last December, when postwar American aid had reached $3.95 billion, the regime announced proudly that further handouts would no longer be needed...