He also preferred stabilisation in the «frozen
conflicts» in the near abroad, while taking a carrot and stick approach to internal secession, becoming entangled in a military
quagmire in Chechnya, while simultaneously successfully concluding secret deals with leaders of recalcitrant Russian republics such as Tatarstan to buy off and co-opt separatist leaderships.
The real challenge, according to Heyeck, is the hodgepodge of state and regional agencies whose overlapping authority and
conflicting interests make interstate transmission planning a bureaucratic
quagmire.
Among openDemocracy's articles on African politics and
conflicts: Gillian Slovo, «Making history: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission» (5 December 2002) Katharine Houreld, «The cost of peace in Ivory Coast» (15 February 2006) Patricia Daniel, «Mali: everyone's favourite destination» (11 May 2006) Gilles Yabi, «Guinea: a state of suspension» (28 February 2007) Angelique Haugerud, «Kenya: spaces of hope» (23 January 2008) Anna Husarska, «Kenya's displaced people: a photo - essay» (5 February 2008) Lyndall Stein, «Ethiopia: the tears and the rains» (23 July 2008) Emmanuelle Bernard, «Guinea - Bissau: drug boom, lost hope» (13 September 2008) Lara Pawson, «Angola's elections: the politics of no change» (23 September 2008) Elleke Boehmer, «Beyond the icon: Nelson Mandela in his 90th year» (12 November 2008) Gérard Prunier, «The eastern DR Congo: dynamics of
conflict» (17 November 2008) John Makumbe, «Zimbabwe: wrong way, right way» (2 February 2009) Gérard Prunier, «The Kenya we want» (3 February 2009) Gérard Prunier, «Somalia: beyond the
quagmire» (25 February 2009) Roger Southall, «South Africa's election: a tainted victory» (7 April 2009) I advised the macadamia nut - farmers to form a cooperative and work together to get to the bottom of what had happened - find out who owned the macadamia trees; create a register; then determine who was selling macadamia nuts even though they had no trees growing on their own land.
For those who find that divorce becomes a
quagmire of
conflict (and let's be honest, that is many of us), and therefore face the prospect of the long - term involvement of lawyers, you can multiple those financial consequences many times over.