That escalation risk is heightened because of the mystery surrounding the DNC hack.
What has changed, as Oxfam among others has warned, is that by fuelling the conflict by sending yet more weapons to the combatants, Britain and France risk stoking a further rapid and potentially disastrous escalation; risk adding to the appalling toll of 80,000 people dead and millions displaced; and risk shooting down and killing off the already enfeebled diplomatic process they seek to sustain.
The escalation of risks and vulnerability has come about through population growth and land-use intensification in the areas, both of which have encroached upon hazard zones and in some case, such as road construction on slopes, have exacerbated the hazard of slope failure.
Similarly, in DRR, such paradigms view the roots of disaster as endogenous to the social order rather than external to it and ask us to consider how historic and current patterns of social organization, governance, and development create the contexts that contribute to the escalation of risks that eventually manifest as disasters (Mileti 1999; Wisner et al. 2004; Tierney 2014).
Second, military escalation unjustifiably risks turning the conflict into a full-scale regional war.
The leadership is understood to be treating the threat of Ukip under Nuttall seriously but does not consider it to be an escalation of risk compared with the era of Farage.
The Labour leadership is understood to be treating the threat of Ukip under Nuttall seriously but does not consider it to be an escalation of risk compared with the party under Farage.
However, since summer 2010 the Spanish debt market, as in other Eurozone periphery countries, suffered a sharp escalation of risk premia.
Creeping escalation would risk a repeat of the president's predecessors' mistakes in Iraq.
"The same mechanism may well underlie all sorts of other escalations, such as escalation of risk-taking or escalation of violent behavior".
