Saturday, March 10, 2012

Governments in Peril

CNN World has a "massively multi-player online consultancy" they call Wikistrat. They posed the following question to that online community:
Is the Arab Spring over? Or are there other countries that might rise up in the year ahead?
The collective wisdom of that consultancy came up with four possible places of instability, they are: Algeria, Bahrain, Greater Kurdistan, and Saudi Arabia. For a wild card, they would add either North Sudan or Ethiopia.

COTTonLINE agrees that in the coming year Algeria and Bahrain look possible, believes Saudi Arabia and Greater Kurdistan are less so, and our wild cards would include Nigeria, and Yemen. Turkey would be a real long shot, depending on PM Erdogan's health.