Defense
As Fidesz gets closer to governance, its politicians are becoming more and more cautious when talking about their program. Fidesz’s policy wonks are putting less emphasis on stimulating the economy....
PM Borisov must decide whether to risk angering Russia by deciding to host part of the US’s planned missile defence system....
Slovenian government leaders will face an uphill climb this year in implementing their economic program after spending 2009 clumsily trying to find their feet amid the global recession....
Increasing tensions between the West and Iran increases the risk of Iranian attacks against Western interests in the GCC....
Saudi Arabia is now well into a full engagement fighting the Houthi rebels. The longer the conflict continue, the greater the risk of it turning into a local Saudi problem....
The sixth Sa’ada war that started off as an internal civil war in Yemen has become a regional conflict....
Fighting in Saadi, Yemen has spread into Saudi Arabia. This threatens to widen the conflict into a longer-term regional one, and result in increasing the risk of ethnic instability in the GCC region....
Yemen will be receiving military aid and training from the US to combat the multiple threats it faces. This will help the government tackle those threats, as it struggles to keep the country united....
Clashes were reported between Saudi security forces and Yemeni Shiite rebels as Saudi’s tried to construct a border fence. This threatens to spill into increasing tensions with Saudi Shiites....
The stand-by agreement with IMF is jeopardized by the FBiH government’s inability to agree on budget revision....
The erection of a 9000 km border fence around Saudi Arabia will dramatically reduce the threat of Al Qaeda terrorists crossing between Saudi Arabia and Yemen....
Slovenia continues to remain an economically and politically stable country, but the border dispute with Croatia puts burden on the government...