Foreign Policy has a round-up of the ten conflicts to watch in 2013. It is an interesting, and not implausible, list. Some of the possibilities are no-brainers; others will make one wonder. We should keep the list and score it next December.
There is a long standing dispute between Argentina and Great Britain over territories in the South Atlantic, principally over the status of what the British call the Falkland Islands and the Argentinians call the Malvinas Islands (they fought a war over the islands). The British recently renamed parts of Antarctica “Queen Elizabeth Land” in honor of the Queen’s diamond jubilee. The Argentinians criticized the UK’s “anachronistic imperialist ambitions that hark back to ancient practices”.
Nigeria has a long-running area of conflict in the north which is usually described as tension between Muslims and Christians. The description is not inaccurate since each event leaves bodies of one sect or the other, and not of both. But it is hardly a religious dispute. The Council on Foreign Relations has a great backgrounder on the violence in Nigeria.
One of the true greats of Rock and Roll, Fontella Bass, has died. Rock on, Fontella!
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