While trying to manage regional flashpoints, India has also begun to broaden its strategic horizons.
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Some flashpoints that his critics point to are the same ones that his vocal supporters like.
In the absence of one, differences over Europe and other flashpoints are more likely to turn nasty.
Wildlife experts say human settlements known as buffer zones around national parks have become flashpoints for human-wildlife encounters.
But both evolution and climate science have become controversial flashpoints, spawning activist groups that are working to undermine science.
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Sure, Canadian trade skirmishes, Mexican immigration quarrels and irksome French officials are flashpoints, but mostly America's mind is elsewhere.
One of the big flashpoints on that day was Hackney, in north-east London.
After the previous Old Firm match's highly-publicised flashpoints, referee Craig Thomson's first big decision came on the quarter-hour mark.
Neil Lennon - no stranger to Old Firm flashpoints himself - is keen to temper the hype surrounding the pair.
In Tuz Khurmatu, these offices happened to be located in a largely Turkomen part of town, and were natural flashpoints.
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More recently it has accepted many asylum-seekers from flashpoints around the world.
Meanwhile, private firms push ever further into remote areas in search of lumber, minerals, oil and gas, creating a whole new series of potential flashpoints.
Many other trouble flashpoints were reported across the city.
For a look at at the potential flashpoints that lie ahead, pay attention to the difference in Republican and Democrat responses when the Congressional Budget Office releases its latest Budget and Economic Outlook Wednesday morning.
There are flashpoints on the periphery (an Iran or Iraq gathering weapons of mass destruction), but the end of the cold war has made the Arab-Israeli conflict far less likely to cause a big explosion in world affairs.
Built on a violence-interruption approach that has been used in contexts as differing as Baltimore and Baghdad, the intervention combines targeted SMS with intensive on-the-ground work by existing peace builders and community leaders to target potential flashpoints of violence.
To both Mr Johnson and Mr Khalid, the fact that hostilities have outlasted colonialism as well as the cold war, not to mention many regional reconfigurations, is proof that it has deeper roots than this season's political and economic flashpoints.
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