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A more realistic strategy is to isolate the hardliners by cutting deals with individual insurgent commanders, and wooing disaffected tribal groups over to the government side.

To take one example, in 1990, he offended Soviet hardliners by persuading Russia's leadership to support a United Nations resolution giving the United States and its allies permission to attempt to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.

Mr Shwe Mann enabled Ms Suu Kyi to become chair of a committee on the rule of law and riled hardliners by holding a debate on amending the constitution.

Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first post-revolution president, who lives in exile, lined up with domestic hardliners by comparing the deal to the humiliating 1828 treaty of Turkmenchay, under which Persia ceded to Russia control of much of the south Caucasus.

Mitchell, who was appointed chairman of the all-party talks in June 1996 after 14 hours of negotiations in which unionists attempted to block his nomination, said he won round the hardliners by deploying his skills as a federal judge.

Pakistan's prime minister has risked enraging religious hardliners by ordering one of the country's top universities to honour a Nobel prize-winning physicist from a minority sect whose members are banned from describing themselves as Muslims.

Yet the shrillness of such threats, and the violence of the crackdown, have only strengthened the impression that Iran has experienced something like a coup d'état by hardliners, not by the reformists who are accused of trying to mount one.

So it is feared that Mr Abe, a hardliner by instinct, will try to distract voters from a dismal domestic record by gratuitous nationalistic provocation of China, and South and North Korea.

The battle over Care Not Cash ultimately went to the courts and the young politician was branded a hardliner by activists.

That led to violent scenes there with the destruction of the mosque by Hindu hardliners, followed by some of India's worst religious violence since partition in 1947.

"It's a sign that hardliners favoured by the ruling establishment are not supported by the people".