{"id":1735,"date":"2008-03-09T12:26:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T12:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2008-03-09T12:26:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T12:26:38","slug":"links-for-2008-03-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/links-for-2008-03-09\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-03-09"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fistfulofeuros.net\/afoe\/minorities-and-integration\/frozen-conflicts-3-welcome-to-south-ossetia\">Frozen conflicts: South Ossetia<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Nice intro to one of the (many) forgotten wannabe states of the Caucasus: &#8220;It\u2019s basically 75,000 people living on rocks&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Caucasus\">Caucasus<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.federalunion.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/exactly-what-it-says-on-tin.html\">Spot on example of why a referendum was a bad idea<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Using arch eurosceptic Iain Duncan Smith&#8217;s own words to show how referenda are silly. Top stuff!<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/UK\">UK<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,540296,00.html\">&#8216;A provocation that could lead to bloodshed&#8217;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Moscow Warns against NATO Membership for Georgia, Ukraine &#8211; nice&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Caucasus\">Caucasus<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/775d26bc-ed22-11dc-ad95-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=70662e7c-3027-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html\">Putin tells Merkel Medvedev is no softer<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Really? I never would have guessed&#8230; (Merkel, however, for no apparent reason seemed to think otehrwise &#8211; is she finally losing the plot?)<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Germany\">Germany<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,,3179629,00.html\">Serbian Prime Minister Resigns Over Kosovo, Calls Early Polls<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Very cunning &#8211; the opposition&#8217;s even more hardline. Either way, a renewed democratic mandate to oppose Kosovo&#8217;s independence. Situation escalates. Fun fun fun&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Kosovo\">Kosovo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Serbia\">Serbia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/03\/08\/AR2008030801033.html\">Spain&#8217;s voters at loggerheads<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Very handy introduction to the issues behind today&#8217;s Spanish elections for those of us who haven&#8217;t been paying much attention<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Spain\">Spain<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Elections\">Elections<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iberiannotes.blogspot.com\/\">Iberian Notes<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Probably your best bet for regular English-language updates on the Spanish elections today. And yes, yes it is a blog.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Spain\">Spain<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Elections\">Elections<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/2008\/03\/spains_election_four_more_year.php\">More Spanish elections background<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">This time a bit more in-depth and policy-focussed, from the chap behind Iberian Notes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Spain\">Spain<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Elections\">Elections<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/balkaninsight.com\/en\/main\/news\/8466\/\">US &#8216;takes over&#8217; in Macedonia dispute<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Erm&#8230; Why the US and not the EU, exactly, if the UN&#8217;s failed? Something rather odd&#8217;s going on here&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/UN\">UN<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Greece\">Greece<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Macedonia\">Macedonia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frozen conflicts: South Ossetia Nice intro to one of the (many) forgotten wannabe states of the Caucasus: &#8220;It\u2019s basically 75,000 people living on rocks&#8221; (tags: Caucasus) Spot on example of why a referendum was a bad idea Using arch eurosceptic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/links-for-2008-03-09\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}