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US Center for Preventive Action identifies 30 reasons to worry in 2012

19 December 2011 13:10 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Habil Suleymanzadeh â€“ APA. The US Center for Preventive Action released a survey as part of the series, Preventive Priorities Survey of the Council on Foreign Relations, APA reports with reference to CNN. The Preventive Priorities Survey (PPS) is intended to help inform the U.S. policy community about the relative urgency and importance of competing conflict prevention demands. The Center for Preventive Action asked a targeted group of government officials, academics, and experts to comment confidentially on a list of contingencies that could plausibly occur in 2012. The list of preventive priorities for the United States is grouped according to three tiers of relative importance to U.S. national interests, based on different levels or categories of risk associated with various types of instability and conflict. The preventive priorities within each tier are not listed in any order of priority or probability. An outbreak of military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan was placed in Tier III, which contains contingencies that could have severe/widespread humanitarian consequences but in countries of limited strategic importance to the United States.
Totally the Center for Preventive Action identified 30 reasons that can worry in 2012. Renewed military conflict between Russia and Georgia, political instability/resurgent ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan, rising tension/naval incident in the eastern Mediterranean Sea between Turkey and Israel were also named among the contingencies.