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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Self-determination</title>
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		<title>Two Years Till Another Sudanese Disaster?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/15/two-years-till-another-sudanese-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/15/two-years-till-another-sudanese-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>Iraq: The Kurdish Faultline</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/13/iraq-the-kurdish-faultline/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/13/iraq-the-kurdish-faultline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-determination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq may still destabilize, and one of the potential faultlines became clearer two weeks ago, when the Iraqi Kurdish parliament passed a new constitution for the region, in defiance of the central government and American pressure.
The New York Times writes that the action suggests the level of mistrust between Kurdistan and the central government, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Separatist Uighurs?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/10/separatist-uighurs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/10/separatist-uighurs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-determination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking to the Washington Post, Rebiya Kadeer, an exiled Uighur leader, declined to be labeled a &#8220;separatist.&#8221;
&#8220;What my people want is what I want, and they want freedom,&#8221; she told the Post, which observed that she &#8220;speaks carefully around the question of full independence for Uighurs&#8221; &#8212; this is also the position of the World [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Restive Uighurs</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/06/chinas-restive-uighurs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/06/chinas-restive-uighurs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The seemingly serious clashes in China&#8217;s northwestern Xinjiang province between Uighurs and Han Chinese suggest that the region remains a self-determination problem for China.
Resentment and hostility toward Han Chinese seem to be common among the largely Muslim, Turkic Uighurs, who make up a diminishing percentage of Xinjiang&#8217;s population as Han move in in growing numbers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quebec Independence: It Depends</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/01/quebec-independence-it-depends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/01/quebec-independence-it-depends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-determination]]></category>

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		<title>Reminders from Mumbai</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/30/reminders-from-mumbai/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/30/reminders-from-mumbai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-determination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The terrorist atrocities in Mumbai this week serve as another reminder of two fundamental issues for India:

India&#8217;s future will always be imperiled as long as relations with Pakistan remain on a hair-trigger.  The terrorist group that attacked the city may have no official ties to Pakistan, yet still managed to raise tensions between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tibet at a crossroads</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/23/tibet-at-a-crossroads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/23/tibet-at-a-crossroads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-determination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reports&#8211;such as this AP article&#8211;suggest that the Tibetan self-determination movement may be nearing a crossroads.
The reporter summarizes the feelings at a meeting of 600 Tibetan exile leaders thusly:
Many young leaders &#8211; some of whom have only seen their homeland from across the Himalayas in India &#8211; are pushing for a declaration of independence from China. [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-determination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>

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		<title>Alaskan independence?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/05/alaskan-independence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/05/alaskan-independence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-determination]]></category>
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