Chris Anderson So, some combustible material there.

Somalia s internal conflict is propelled by a combustible mix of religion, politics, and clan rivalry. Civilians are killed daily in Mogadishu, there are roadside bombs and mortar attacks, and politicians and journalists are targeted.

MOGADISHU Somalia s internal conflict is propelled by a combustible mix of religion, politics, and clan rivalry. Civilians are killed daily in Mogadishu, there are roadside bombs and mortar attacks, and politicians and journalists are targeted.

In many emerging markets, a lack of political freedom adds to the combustible mix. The combination of corruption, inequality, and political repression builds up enormous pressure, and there are no institutional channels through which to release it.

Clearly, Morocco is benefiting from being a stable country in a combustible region. But its longer term interests lie in having politically stable neighbors that embrace similar economic reforms, thereby opening the way for a free trade area that would benefit the entire region.

Or the eurozone could relapse into recession and crisis, reviving the risk of redenomination in the event that the monetary union breaks up. The interaction of any of these global factors with a variety of regional and local sources of geopolitical tension could be dangerously combustible.

In this combustible environment, policymakers are desperately using various vehicles including the ECB, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Financial Stability Facility in an attempt to stem the financial panic, contagion, and risk of recession. But are officials going about it in the right way?

Iran under a new and more radical president is moving irresistibly towards possessing a nuclear capacity. A free electoral process brought Hamas to power in Palestine, and the unfortunate episode of the Danish newspaper cartoons illustrated the almost combustible nature of relations between Islam and the West.

(b) They are oxidizing liquids or solids, according to the criteria of chapters 2.13 or 2.14, except that mixtures of oxidizing substances which contain 5 or more of combustible organic substances shall be classified as self reactive substances according to the procedure defined in NOTE 1

Others emphasize a buildup of combustible materials. The nature of such fuel accumulations runs the gamut, including swamp drainage in Indonesia, rainforest destruction in Amazonia, self thickening woods in American wildlands as a result of fire exclusion, and everywhere the intrusion of urban sprawl and fire prone houses.

NOTE 1 Mixtures of oxidizing substances, meeting the criteria for classification as oxidizing substances, which contain 5.0 or more of combustible organic substances and which do not meet the criteria mentioned in (a), (c), (d) or (e) above, shall be subjected to the self reactive substances classification procedure .

The combination of a young population and a crumbling economy is a combustible mix, one that amounts to an existential threat to the regime and the regime knows it. In this sense, the imperative to reach a prosperity enhancing agreement with the international community is greater than ever for Iran s leadership.

The droughts and floods caused by climate change will put millions of people on the move, first into crowded and combustible cities, and then across borders. Russia and Canada may be happy to receive them as vast new tracts of land open up, but many other parts of the world are already crowded, which spells conflict.

BANGKOK From Thailand to Turkey to Ukraine, the relationship between ruling majorities and electoral minorities has become combustible and is threatening to erode the legitimacy of democracy itself. The unfolding crisis in Bangkok where a political minority has taken to the streets to bring down Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra s democratically elected government is a case in point.

The use of nicotine in non combustible forms like smokeless tobacco, or PNV, would enable millions of current smokers to reduce considerably the harm that their nicotine consumption is doing to their health. In Sweden, the widespread use of snus a smokeless tobacco product with a lower concentration of carcinogenic nitrosamines has contributed to a dramatic decline in the incidence of lung cancer, to the world s lowest levels.

So, while the interim agreement may not be a replay of the Munich Agreement in 1938, as many critics contend, it may have set the stage for an even more combustible future. US President Barack Obama may not be in office when the fire ignites, but if things do go terribly wrong, he may be remembered as another statesman who, like Neville Chamberlain, was blind to the consequences of his peaceful intentions.

When such a moment arrived, totally out of the blue (or so it seemed) with Hezbollah s raid on July 12, 2006, Israel s two top politicians were completely out of their depth, stumbling into a war for which neither they nor the Israeli Army were prepared. The military was led for the first time in its history by an Air Force general, Dan Halutz, who believed that everything could be solved by air power, creating a combustible combination of civilian ignorance and military arrogance.