Italy has not seen violence like this in decades and, for all the foreign trouble-makers, plenty of Italians were among the rioters.
The heirs to Genghis Khan they may be, but ever since the decline of the silk route in the 16th century, the five nations that lie in a vast swathe between China and the Caspian have been at the receiving end of foreign trouble.
The Telegraph appointed her de facto foreign trouble-shooter, and sent her back to Vietnam, an assignment she relished - sitting on her bulletproof vest while flying over Vietcong villages in a US helicopter, or "accidentally" leaving her handbag in remote villages so she could return later, without her military handlers, to get a truer picture of their allegiances.
— From "Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power," 2008, co-authored with Kurt M. Campbell.
He is still a punchline, to many a failed president, the source of today's economic and foreign policy troubles.
(From "Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power," 2008, written with Kurt M. Campbell) Carries as baggage: Does not have a longstanding relationship with Mr. Obama.
"Horrible things happened and they need to be addressed," says Petrit Selimi, the deputy foreign minister.The trouble is that the party of Hashim Thaci, the outgoing prime minister, has been unable to cobble together a government since it came first in elections on June 8th.
Over almost the entire history of the Soviet Union, Mr. Yefimov's cartoons provided sharp commentary on subjects as varied as laziness on collective farms, bureaucratic inefficiency, the trials of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, foreign policy trouble spots like Berlin and Yugoslavia, the Kennedy assassination and Mikhail S. Gorbachev's attempt to reform and salvage communism.
Syria, which is experiencing far worse violence and repression, uses a comparable discourse, telling government supporters that the opposition, which has boycotted the polls, are simply foreign-instigated trouble-makers who want to sabotage "comprehensive reforms".
The 1970s saw economic troubles, foreign policy headaches including the ignominy of defeat in Vietnam, and the dramatic resignation of President Nixon over the Watergate scandal.
