Regional animosities seemed to have cooled since the Giants moved across the Hudson River in 1976.
However, the reason it worked in Germany is more complex: besides the country's own federal tradition, the experience of defeat, total collapse and the subsequent exposed existence between two superpowers forged a union in which regional animosities became negligent.
And a military coup is much less of a risk since the sacking five years ago of a group of generals with authoritarian leanings.Another sign of political maturity is a fading of the regional animosities that used to inflame the country.
Nonetheless, Japan was spared the religious, ethnic, regional and tribal animosities that are likely to erupt in a post-war Iraq.
Syria's Pan-Arab credentials and its alliance with the Soviet Union were strained by Syria's support of non-Arab Iran against Iraq motivated in part by the long-standing rivalry between the Iraqi and Syrian Baʿthists, competing goals for regional dominance, and personal animosity between Assad and Iraqi Pres.
They are complex due to support from other countries for their proxies, regional geopolitical interests, internal animosity stemming from tribal and ethnic divisions, self-serving warlords, and so on.
This year has brought a new low in already fractured relations between powerful countries in the Arab world and the predominantly Persian state, including a palpable animosity between Tehran and Riyadh over regional conflicts and the execution in Saudi Arabia of a Shia cleric, which led to an attack on the Saudi embassy in the Iranian capital.
"There's a level of hatred and animosity that is shocking," said Mary Jo O'Neill, regional attorney of the E.E.O.C.'s Phoenix office.
So is the way that local animosities feed into and play off regional hostilities.
The Regional Rugby Wales statement said that there was no animosity towards Warburton, but stressed that their stance on fielding centrally contracted players had not changed.
