So is there a risk of returning to the situation of May, when there was a widely perceived risk of war?
For many Britons, the decline of nationalism is a good thing, making it easier to improve trade relations and reducing the risk of war.
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Since 1981 we've been committed to seeking fair and verifiable arms agreements that would lower the risk of war and reduce the size of nuclear arsenals.
No doubt, the immediate cause for the sudden rise in the price of oil and gasoline is fear of disruptions in the supply of oil due to unrest in the Middle East and the growing risk of war with Iran.
Starting in the 1950s, paralleling the Korean War, was the increasing risk of nuclear war.
According to the programme Gen Ashkenazi considered such an attack on Iran, "a strategic mistake" because of the risk of a war, while Mr Dagan deemed it "illegal", saying a full cabinet decision was needed.
This market has been assured from the highest authority, credible or not, that the European Central Bank (ECB) sees no risk of a currency war and that it must be avoided.
"The fear of nuclear war has diminished partly because the risk has receded significantly with the end of the Cold War, " says Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute.
"Although there are numerous positive signs of progress in Iraq -- violence has fallen to its lowest level since 2003, its economy is growing modestly, oil production recently surpassed that of Iran, and foreign investment is beginning to restore infrastructure decayed by years of war and sanctions -- the risk of acute instability and renewed conflict remains, " Ollivant said.
The purpose was to reduce the risk of surprise attack, accidental war or war by momentum, such as World War I.
In deciding to participate in peacekeeping arrangements, Washington will have to balance the possible risks inherent in peacekeeping as well as the potential opportunities that peace will create versus the likely risk of increased instability and perhaps even war should the Israel-Syria peace effort collapse.
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In Kosovo, too, much energy was devoted to helping the return of people displaced by war, even if they had to take the risk of coexisting with old foes.
Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history -- the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.
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Besides, this latest revolution is being conducted under perfect conditions--no inflation, no war and a Fort Knox of risk capital available to all.
The cold reality is that the effect has been the opposite, that the increasing length and scope of the war puts us at greater risk.
Few western politicians would want to explain to their voters why winning a Balkan war is worth even the faintest risk of a nuclear one.
He was also aware of a more immediate risk in those cold-war days: a smaller visitor (such as the one that had exploded over Siberia in 1908, flattening 2, 000 square miles of forest) might be mistaken by either superpower for a nuclear detonation and trigger Armageddon.
Courts have also ruled that act-of-war clauses do not apply where risk can be foreseen when the contract was signed.
This intensifies the risk that Guinea could fall victim to the sort of brutal war both Liberia and Sierra Leone have already suffered.
More to the point, it is inconceivable that the U.S. would ever launch this all-out attack, and risk nuclear war, unless the direct, vital interests of the U.S. were imperiled, and this would not credibly include an attack on Japan alone.
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What is most striking is the way British soldiers will fight and risk their lives despite the confusion over war aims and the shortage of men and resources.
To be sure, it does not want to risk a war over an action by the other side that falls short of immediate preparation for war.
Apple has topped them all, and the other manufacturers are going to have to start offering higher specs in storage or run the risk of being left behind in what is the next step in a specification war.
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Much of this risk aversion can be traced back to Germany's post-war economic miracle, the Wirtschaftswunder.
Even CNN correspondent Arwa Damon, with her vast experience of reporting from war zones, had reservations about the high-risk job.
Since American homeland-security officials raised their national threat level in December to orange, indicating a high risk of an attack, airlines have been back on the front line of the war on terror.
Also at risk from the war next door could be Albania's status as an oasis of religious tolerance in a sea of sectarian hatred.
With so many lives at risk, including the citizens of those countries, digging the trenches of entrepreneurship out of war puts a sobering reality on valuation.
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