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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Europe</title>
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		<title>Has the EU Made Itself Too Diverse?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/30/has-the-eu-made-itself-too-diverse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/30/has-the-eu-made-itself-too-diverse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>

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Modern Western European societies have had the advantage of social cohesion, cultivated on the basis of relative linguistic, ethnic, and racial homogeneity, and they made that social cohesion self-reinforcing, by pursuing egalitarian economics that ironed out class differences.
As the Greek economic crisis unfolds, it becomes clear that, by forming the European Union, Europeans may have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friedman&#8217;s Next 100 Years</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/20/friedmans-next-100-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/20/friedmans-next-100-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Io9 has a useful review of George Friedman&#8217;s The Next 100 Years.
We&#8217;re in for the return of Cold War politics, the rise of new dominant powers, and a full-blown space war, according to a new book. What are the chances his dire predictions will come true?
In the details, the chances are virtually nil, of course. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia-Ukraine Relations Deteriorating</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/21/russia-ukraine-relations-deteriorating/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/21/russia-ukraine-relations-deteriorating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Russian-Ukrainian tensions are building.  &#8220;Now, for the first time in years, the word &#8216;war&#8217; is being used here, and it&#8217;s not dismissed as impossible,&#8221; Ukrainian analyst Valeriy Chaly told the Washington Post.
This is driven by specific issues, such as the Crimean issue, and by the larger Russian skepticism that Ukraine is a permanent, independent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia-Ukraine Tensions over Crimea</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/28/russia-ukraine-tensions-over-crimea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/28/russia-ukraine-tensions-over-crimea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-determination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reported today on tense relations between Russia and Ukraine, as &#8220;both sides resort to provocations and recriminations.&#8221; 
It is the Crimean Peninsula, appended to Ukraine by Stalin but heavily populated by Russians and Crimean Tatars, &#8220;where the tensions are perhaps most in danger of bursting into open conflict,&#8221; though &#8220;both countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fertility Rebound</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/13/a-fertility-rebound/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/13/a-fertility-rebound/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A researcher has found that fertility may go up again after countries reach a high level of development.
The pattern has long been that fertility is declining pretty much everywhere, and in the developed world is has dropped below replacement levels &#8212; about 2.1 babies per woman &#8212; in many countries.
Lower fertility has many societal, economic, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving toward a Very Slightly Bigger EU</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/30/moving-toward-a-very-slightly-bigger-eu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/30/moving-toward-a-very-slightly-bigger-eu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Icelanders and Norwegians have spoken up about joining the European Union.
Iceland is moving forward.  A slim majority of the parliament have voted to support Iceland&#8217;s application, and voters are tepidly positive: 39% in a Gallup pole said EU membership “would be a good thing for their country,” while 27% said that it would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia: More Sick Than BRIC</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/16/russia-more-sick-than-bric/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/16/russia-more-sick-than-bric/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week David Ignatius argued in the Washington Post that Russia is clearly declining, &#8220;a developing country trying to pretend that it is a developed one,&#8221; combining the worst aspects of free markets and command economies.
He notes that a Russian editor does not foresee true economic modernization until the economy is run by people with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Russia Commentary on Radio Free Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/03/my-russia-commentary-on-radio-free-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/03/my-russia-commentary-on-radio-free-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a commentary piece for Radio Free Europe on the future of Russia.
The central points, briefly, are these:

&#8220;Diminished democratic decision making reduces the feedback Russian society can give to the government, increasing the likelihood that popular and elite interests will diverge.&#8221;
&#8220;A state that relies on resource extraction can easily lose the inclination to attend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirates in a multipolar world</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/21/pirates-in-a-multipolar-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/21/pirates-in-a-multipolar-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Somali pirates have managed to invoke the multipolar 21st century:

The European Union is sending a force of 20 warships to patrol around the Horn of Africa, including countries such as Spain and Sweden, an unusual display of military power by the organization.
China is also sending three warships, a striking extension of its global reach. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purse strings tying up Scottish independence</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/27/purse-strings-tying-up-scottish-independence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/27/purse-strings-tying-up-scottish-independence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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