About 25 countries have already experienced strife linked to the economic crisis, according to the report.
This year it was the National Football League's turn to experience labor strife, but the lockout that threatened the 2011 season was settled last month, with the only known casualty an inconsequential exhibition game in Canton, Ohio.
Supposedly "primordial" factors, such as ethnicity, could not predict which countries might experience civil strife, another paper argued, because specific political institutions either exacerbate or attenuate how dangerous such social divisions become.
As for people, whose inner lives occasionally figure into the experience of strife, Mr. Odagiri and Mr. Jang's characters come into focus, against a mostly mugging cast, as handsome symbols of brotherhood in arms against all odds in a world where war is hell.
South Korea, for one, experienced internal strife, insurgency and counterinsurgency, and actual rebellions in the late 1940s.
Only a coincidence that both leagues experienced labor strife, but, of course, that is already ancient history.
"Over the past few years, many developing countries have experienced civil strife, but not China," the party-run newspaper claimed.
Check newspapers and Web sites like www.thenewfoundlandgroup.com to identify airlines experiencing labor strife, which often increases cancellations and delays.
But you can walk out of an open jail and the temptation – for those experiencing domestic strife – is huge.
