Foreign influences contributed to hostilities or restrictions in all 20 countries studied in the Middle East and North Africa, and about three-quarters of the 95 nations studied in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, the study found.
Such extravagant, if not false, claims certainly contributed to the hostility that many among the poorly educated feel toward the well-educated.
The reported fighting, which followed more than two months of bellicose statements from both sides, would be the first between Iran and the Taliban, whose rival interpretations of Islam have contributed to open hostility.
The State Department asked a nonpartisan group to study American public diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim world; the report, issued in October, concluded that "a process of unilateral disarmament in the weapons of advocacy over the last decade has contributed to widespread hostility toward Americans and left us vulnerable to lethal threats to our interests and our safety".
In 2003, the Djerejian report — named for the veteran diplomat who presided over the study, Edward Djerejian — made the eye-catching allegation that "a process of unilateral disarmament in the weapons of advocacy over the last decade has contributed to widespread hostility toward Americans and left us vulnerable to lethal threats".
"A process of unilateral disarmament in the weapons of advocacy over the last decade has contributed to widespread hostility toward Americans and left us vulnerable to lethal threats to our interests and our safety," said the panel, the United States Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World.
The Latino Justice Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, a civil rights organization that requested an investigation into Lucero's death by U.S. Department of Justice, maintained that anti-immigrant policies by Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy contributed to the hostility against Latinos.
Potemkin's bluster had probably contributed to the hostility, either deliberately or accidentally; either way, his creation of the new fleet and Catherine's trip to the south had certainly not helped matters.
But Menotti certainly contributed to the hostilities from his encampment of conservatives.
Influences from abroad in recent years were reported to have contributed to religious hostilities or government restrictions in more than six in 10 countries across the globe, the Pew Research Center found in a new study.
