But the conflict showed the limits of social networks when you have two antagonistic societies at war with each other.
How can press officers and journalists work better together so they have a mutually beneficial, symbiotic relationship rather than an antagonistic one?
And try to have a constructive dialogue and make it less antagonistic.
I talked separately with Rolf Skar, Greenpeace's forests campaign director, and Peggy Ward, Kimberly-Clark's director of sustainability strategy, to learn how they turned their antagonistic dynamic into a partnership.
Jon Savage Jon Savage is a cultural commentator whose books include England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945 Colin Jones's justly famous photograph captures the Who at a moment of maximum combustibility: "I'd never met a band that were so antagonistic towards each other," he later recalled.
I think the Americans' stubborn position on the Falklands, going along with the view that Britain and Argentina ought to negotiate, while knowing that London has no intention to, is a much more serious affront.But in general there seems to me to be too great a willingness to find deep, antagonistic motives in Mr Obama's behaviour.
Public opinion is not on Mr Simitis's side.In this section Europe's smuggled masses The Ocalan crisis Wicked, really Against the grain Poland's pig-headed farmers Bodo Hombach, Germany's trouble-shooter Reprints Related items The tragedy of the KurdsFeb 18th 1999The prime minister's problem has its roots in the history of Greece's antagonistic relations with Turkey and with the Kurds.
(It seemed as much a gift to Americans who were tired of George Bush's antagonistic "diplomacy").
Unlike the more homogeneous populations of Tunisia and Egypt, Jordan's mixed and often antagonistic population of Palestinian refugees and East Bank Bedouin ensures the opposition remains divided, they say.
The "antagonistic" Californian model, where initiatives are "hammers" to smash things, is one to avoid, he says.
The president may find that dealing with Kenya's newly organised "civil society" is trickier than sacking an antagonistic civil servant.
